[DiogenesLamp]

That's my point: your calling Lincoln a "racist" is just woke crazy talk.

It is the plain truth. You just can't accept it.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp #77: "You are trying to ignore the fact that Lincoln was racist and was also a white supremacist."

quoting BJK: "That's my point: your calling Lincoln a "racist" is just woke crazy talk."

DiogenesLamp: "It is the plain truth.
You just can't accept it."

By that same standard, then you, DiogenesLamp, are also a "racist and... a white supremacist.".
If such claims are true of Lincoln, then they are true of you too, FRiend.

But I don't accept such definitions because they are pure nonsense, especially in the 1860s historical context.

What mattered in 1860 was not that Lincoln was a "racist" (there was no such word in 1860), but that he was a moderate abolitionist.
It was Lincoln's abolitionism -- however "moderate" -- that drove Deep South Democrat Fire Eaters to begin organizing to declare secession the week of Lincoln's election on November 6, 1860.

It is the plain truth.
You just can't accept it.