Only in your opinion. I demonstrated the similarities.
"No it wan't -- it was a moral equation between Southerners who don't accept the triumphalist Rushmore canon and skinheaded Holocaust-deniers who wave old Imperial German Navy ensigns and keep Nazi flags in their closets."
I drew no such equation. It should suffice to say, however, we both know there are those who have no qualms flying a swastika with the CBF. Anti-Americans. Not a nice crowd to run with.
"If you wanted to talk about wrongheadedness, you'd have spoken of schismatic Montanists, Donatists, and Gnostics. You'd have talked about Manichaean oversimplification, or factional polemicists feeding on subtle distinctions, like the Arians and the Hesychasmists. You'd have talked about the factiousness of legitimist movements like the Jacobites and the Yellow Turbans. You'd have talked about wrongheadedness and the Dunsmen, or Dunses -- modern "dunces" -- who persisted for generations in following Duns Scotus."
What a mouthful - no wonder you haven't posted to the thread ina couple of days. I haven't had such a good laugh ... well ... since the last time you posted.
Let's get back to basics.
Slavery was important to the southern elite. So important they were willing to break up the Union and risk war to protect it. They chose poorly.
There are those that wear the swastika and the US flag. Anti-Americans. Not a nice crowd to run with.
Slavery was important -- but the slavery issue they were dealing with was, whether they'd become the slaves of a successful political faction themselves
They chose to recast the Union and exercise their sovereign right to revolutionize their affairs, in order not to be victimized and taken advantage of as Alexis DeTocqueville had predicted.
They chose poorly.
They chose the course of honor. Of course, if you believe what you just said, then it's you who deserve to wear a boot on your neck.
constantly standing on a street corner & shouting "THE WORLD IS FLAT. THE WORLD IS FLAT." does NOT make it a TRUTHFUL rant NOR does it make the shouter look smart.
neither does your continual spouting of the "slavery was all" theory of the REVISIONIST/socialist/communist LEFT make you look like anything but a PARROT & a tool of the southHATING RADICAL LEFT.