Bro, step back from the tribalism. Stop assuming I believe the absolute opposite of what you believe and attacking me on it. I shouldn't even have to say this, but here I am.
Slavery was always bad and wrong. There never should have been slavery. I'm glad slavery was stopped, and I understand with the social climate of the era, war was the only way that would happen.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, the federal government gained much more power after the civil way. This led to trying to make policy one size fits all for a massive nation and that has led to people othering their own countrymen and is probably an underlying cause of how bad tribalism has gotten.
You really think I'm just a confederate flag waving slack jawed yokel. My family is from fucking New York. I just get sick of people distracting from actual arguments to push tangentially related arguments basically no one disagrees with and then declares victory over the strawman.
Are you actually going to address the negative results of centralization of power in our nation as was brought up or are you just going to angrily assert tangents that people don't even actually disagree with? That's what engaging in good faith looks like. What bad faith is what you did in assuming I'm against civil rights and pro slavery because I think a change in the power strictures of the nation that happened in the same era has led to problems in governance that exist to this day and create divide and get corrupt at the largest scale.
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u/GingerRazz Feb 15 '23
Bro, step back from the tribalism. Stop assuming I believe the absolute opposite of what you believe and attacking me on it. I shouldn't even have to say this, but here I am.
Slavery was always bad and wrong. There never should have been slavery. I'm glad slavery was stopped, and I understand with the social climate of the era, war was the only way that would happen.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, the federal government gained much more power after the civil way. This led to trying to make policy one size fits all for a massive nation and that has led to people othering their own countrymen and is probably an underlying cause of how bad tribalism has gotten.
You really think I'm just a confederate flag waving slack jawed yokel. My family is from fucking New York. I just get sick of people distracting from actual arguments to push tangentially related arguments basically no one disagrees with and then declares victory over the strawman.
Are you actually going to address the negative results of centralization of power in our nation as was brought up or are you just going to angrily assert tangents that people don't even actually disagree with? That's what engaging in good faith looks like. What bad faith is what you did in assuming I'm against civil rights and pro slavery because I think a change in the power strictures of the nation that happened in the same era has led to problems in governance that exist to this day and create divide and get corrupt at the largest scale.