[BroJoeK]

DiogesLamp: "That doesn't make any sort of sense. Lincoln *WAS* a racist.
Lincoln *WAS* a white supremacist, defined as someone who believes whites are superior and should rule.
He was also a white separatist, as he himself said in some of those quotes i've already posted to you early.
So how does any of this tie in to me?
Beyond you wanting to accuse me of what I am declaring Lincoln to be, what basis do you have for asserting I am a racist and a white supremacist?"

Again, my analogy: calling Lincoln "racist" (a word that didn't exist until the 1930s), is like calling fish "wet".
Sure, but why make a point of it?
What matters to us is that millions of years ago, some fish, despite being "wet", decided to crawl out of the water onto the land.
That's how we got here.

Likewise, in the 1860s world where every human being fit our definition of "racist", Lincoln was also an abolitionist, a moderate abolitionist, just as had been many of our Founding Fathers.
Lincoln favored restricting and abolishing slavery wherever possible.
That's how we got here.

Finally, if you insist on babbling nonsense about Lincoln's "racism", then we can just as easily babble nonsense about DiogenesLamp's racism, and my ultimate authority for that is the greatest nonsense babbler in the known Universe, Hillary.
You belong in her "basket of deplorables" just as surely as Lincoln belongs in yours!

I'm saying nonsense is still nonsense, regardless of who babbles it.

[DiogenesLamp]

Again, my analogy: calling Lincoln "racist" (a word that didn't exist until the 1930s), is like calling fish "wet".

Fish *ARE* wet. Therefore Lincoln *WAS* a racist.

Good. Finally got you to admit it.