I'm saying nobody was "racist" in 1860 because there was no such word as "racist" or "racism" in 1860.
Many argue that the word "racism" was coined by the Communist Leon Trotsky in 1927, as a slur against anti-Communists.
It's first appearance in English dates to the 1930s.
Today, by Woke-Democrat definitions, everybody who's not "woke" is a racist, sexist, homophobe, islamophobe, transphobe or "you name it", as Hillary said in her "basket of deplorables" rant.
That's why I don't think there's any value in calling people like Lincoln words that didn't even exist in 1860.
Bruh
Quit virtue signaling over 200 year old “racism”
By anyone even Lincoln
Who cares
It’s an absurd context to all of history where even today all peoples I’ve know self identify by race and other markers like ethnicity or nation or region etc
It’s like “Mfumii was the last of his tribe to give up cannibalism”
Lincoln thinking blacks were not up to snuff doesn’t diminish him anymore than it does Jackson or Washington etc
That is just silly. We can't describe racist people through the usage of a modern word because the word didn't exist back when they were being racist?
That is just silly.