The first is selective misapplication of a two-sided condition. Like smoking bans...the ban limits freedom of the smoker while giving freedom to non-smokers. My point remains the same and remains valid. Southernphobes today try to portray themselves as having some sort of moral high ground by saying or by pretending that the WBTS was fought to free slaves, which is not only wrong it would be hypocritical if true...given that the same war prevented Southerners from being free to decide their political fate.
The second comment would be hysterical if it wasn’t so revealing. I defy you to show any evidence R.E. Lee took whites as slaves. Seriously, take your meds.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2007/06/24/the-private-thoughts-of-robert-e-lee
I particularly recommend the comments.
The civil war prevented some southerners from having the authority to torture and rape other southerners.
By contrast, it gave some southerners freedom from being raped and tortured under color of authority by other southerners.
So really your opposition is either on the side of rape and torture, or against it. By your choice, your soul is judged.