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Yes, You're a Racist -- And a Traitor
The Huffington Post ^ | June 23, 2015 | John E. Price

Posted on 06/23/2015 11:56:19 AM PDT by EveningStar

Edited on 06/24/2015 8:32:44 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

... I hate Gone With the Wind. I hate everything about it. I hate its portrayal of the Civil War. I hate its portrayal of Southern aristocrats. I hate its popularity. I hate that it's become an iconic movie. I hate that it was ever made in the first place.

Gone With the Wind is Birth of a Nation with less horses. The movie, and its position among the American cinematic pantheon, has done more to further the ahistoric Lost Cause bull**** than any other single production. Because that's the fundamental problem with the Lost Cause narrative: it's not true.

Let's go one-by-one through some typical Lost Cause-tinged revisionist talking points:

The Civil War was about economics, not slavery!

The Civil War was about states' rights, not slavery!



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: civilwar; confederacy; confederateflag; deathbyfederaltroops; gonewiththewind; gwtw; lostcause; racism; readtheentirearticle; statesrights
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To: DiogenesLamp
So what about the Northern slave states of Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Missouri?

They didnt secede to protect slavery and then initiate war with the United States.

If it it was about slavery, how come they weren't invaded and in ruins?

Because they didn't secede to protect slavery and initiate war with the United States.

Why was their slavery acceptable, but those other states not?

Why was any slavery acceptable?

61 posted on 06/23/2015 1:50:06 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: IrishBrigade

A very common error by dopes who can’t even speak their own language.
This includes more than a few talking heads on the nightly news.


62 posted on 06/23/2015 1:52:12 PM PDT by beelzepug (liberalism is not...a political philosophy. It is a stage of arrested emotional development.)
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To: PATRIOT1876

Lincoln’s letter to Horace Greeley (the media)
regarding that topic:
http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/greeley.htm


63 posted on 06/23/2015 1:53:15 PM PDT by two23 (Ignore the media. It isn't propaganda if we don't listen.)
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To: EveningStar; rockrr; x

A lot of Freepers sound just like the author of this screed.


64 posted on 06/23/2015 1:54:24 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
They didnt secede to protect slavery and then initiate war with the United States.

Wow. The way you phrase the question, it almost sounds like secession was the issue, rather than slavery.

Interesting theory you have there!

Why was any slavery acceptable?

You'll have to ask Lincoln. I wasn't making decisions for the Union Army back in 1861.

65 posted on 06/23/2015 1:54:29 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: central_va

Not really but OK if that makes you feeeeeeeeeeeel better.

(How’s that list coming?)


66 posted on 06/23/2015 1:59:05 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Is there anything about the posted article you disagree with? It sounds like one of you Freeper Lincoln cultists. I.E. it sounds crazy and hateful.


67 posted on 06/23/2015 2:01:41 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: DiogenesLamp
Interesting theory you have there!

Well, from the south's view it WAS all about slavery, as they made clear over and over and over. But from the United States' view, it was about preserving the union, as they made clear over and over. You might start with Lincoln's First Inaugural.

68 posted on 06/23/2015 2:01:55 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: rockrr

Do you a problem with Mr Prices piece? Where are your differences of opinion?


69 posted on 06/23/2015 2:05:02 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

I don’t hate GWTW ;’)


70 posted on 06/23/2015 2:06:15 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: EveningStar
Mad Magazine had the best spoof of GWTW.

Rhett: "hello Scarlett
Scarlett: "hello Rhett"

(BOOM)

Rhett: "good grief, what an awful war."

71 posted on 06/23/2015 2:21:54 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: central_va
Is there anything about the posted article you disagree with?

Sure. "Gone With the WInd" bores me, but I don't hate it.

72 posted on 06/23/2015 2:24:35 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: EveningStar

Fiddle dee dee!

I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about that tomorrow.


73 posted on 06/23/2015 2:25:33 PM PDT by xp38
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To: EveningStar

Hindsight is 2020. We’ve been in Reconstruction Redux; albeit an incremental one, since LBJ- long before 0bama. It was then, & it is still driven by communism (the Abolitionists were fans of Karl Marx).

We’re almost there. (Look at Detroit, Oakland, Camden, & Baltimore) 0bama & the BGI are trying to drive White people to a reaction so that he can declare martial law (which is exactly what Reconstruction was). I can see America falling before the end of his term- & even before the 2016 election. (I told y’all something bad would happen if we kept fooling around & didn’t impeach them.)


74 posted on 06/23/2015 2:50:35 PM PDT by KGeorge (First the Confederate Battle Flag, then the Cross. It's not far off.)
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To: KGeorge
(the Abolitionists were fans of Karl Marx).

I'd be interested in seeing where any Abolitionist acknowledged ever having heard of Karl Marx.

75 posted on 06/23/2015 3:12:38 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: EveningStar

Why did you post this crap?


76 posted on 06/23/2015 3:38:52 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: EveningStar

Ok now this liberal has done crossed the line!


77 posted on 06/23/2015 4:25:32 PM PDT by uncitizen
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Google is your friend, Bubba. (”abolitionists, Karl Marx”) So is archive.org (That’s where the truth is. Before it became propagandized.)

Betcha didn’t know that feminism (”women’s suffrage”) & “free love” are also rooted in abolitionism. Don’t quote me, because I’ve read a lot & it’s been more than a year, but I believe it was Harriet Beecher Stowe’s bunch (I want to say her brother?) were into bisexuality, too.
These people were professional agitators.

Not kidding. Look this stuff up. It’ll blow you away. Look up John Brown, while you’re at it. Now, there’s a fine specimen of a “moral, upright” man. (Not)


78 posted on 06/23/2015 5:01:04 PM PDT by KGeorge (First the Confederate Battle Flag, then the Cross. It's not far off.)
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To: EveningStar

Why does the media encourage racism?


79 posted on 06/23/2015 5:05:51 PM PDT by ully2
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To: ohioman
Why did you post this crap?

It's always good to know what the other side is up to. However, you are free to request that this thread be deleted and / or have the site blocked.

80 posted on 06/23/2015 6:14:26 PM PDT by EveningStar
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