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You simply cannot go back in time to impose our standards, much less Hillary's Progressive "woke" standards, on historical figures. No human being could pass such tests.

When everyone is a racist/white supremacist, you can't judge people for being racist and white Supremacist?

I don't grasp your point. In those days, virtually *EVERYONE* was both a Racist, *AND* a "White Supremacist".

They all considered blacks inferior, and they wanted blacks and whites separated. They even passed laws to insure the two groups remained as far apart as was practicable.

Lincoln wanted separation. Here is an excerpt from his discussion of the issue with some black leaders that came to the whitehouse in 1862.

You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think your race suffer very greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence. In a word we suffer on each side. If this is admitted, it affords a reason at least why we should be separated. You here are freemen I suppose.

I've read many examples of Lincoln specifically saying that blacks need to be kept out of white societies. I remember reading in one debate that he believed getting rid of slavery would be the best way to do this.

This is from the debate, but it isn't the one I was looking for.

" I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, [applause]—that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied every thing. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife."

Lincoln was incredibly witty.

But he was absolutely a white supremacists and a racist.

DiogenesLamp: "Lincoln was incredibly witty.
But he was absolutely a white supremacists and a racist."

Those are your words, and I'm saying they are no more valid or relevant than Hilary's "basket of deplorables" accusations.

By analogy, it's like accusing fish of living in water.
What's important to us is not that all fish live in water, but that some fish, many years ago, tried to crawl out of the water and live on land.
Of course, those few fish didn't suddenly begin walking on two feet and writing Shakespearean sonnets!
But they took the literal first steps which led to us doing that.

That's what's important, and why we celebrate, just as with Lincoln -- who was a moderate abolitionist at a time when at least two-thirds of US voters were perfectly content with slavery's status quo.
Lincoln's moderation was totally lost of radical Democrat secessionists, who saw Lincoln as a radical abolitionists and reason enough to declare secession from the United States.

By the end of his life, Lincoln had come to support full citizenship for freed slaves, and that's what got him assassinated, according to John Wilkes Booth.

Everything else is just nonsense and irrelevant -- just more of Hillary's "basket of deplorables" kind of talk.