Out of compassion--the compassion you seem unable to extend to others, but which your frequently quoted Abraham Lincoln certainly recognized in his Second Inaugural Address, when he tried to set the mood that you totally reject: "With Malice Towards None, with Charity Towards All"--I will try one last time to explain it all to you.
Does a British school boy who admires Richard The Lion Hearted as a Chivalric hero, automatically endorse the idea of warriors locking a steel pelvic girdle around their wives and daughters, before they go off to war? If he celebrates the victory at Agincourt, over two centuries later--perhaps reciting the famous St. Crispin's Day speech from Henry V--does that mean that he wants to restore Feudalism. If he celebrates the Industrial Revolution's birth in mid Eighteenth Century Britain, does that mean he is celebrating the bondage of White Britains in the salt and coal mines in Northern England, not ended until George III ended it upon coming to the throne in 1760?
You have no sense of proportion, of the relative importance of events and ideas. But that defines a fanatic. Whether he is right or wrong is not the issue. It is the total absense of a sense of proportion.
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If he says that Richard never locked such a girdle on his wives and daughters, then there is a problem.
That is the sort of thing the neo-rebs do every day on FR, across the 'net and in all the media. They lie.
It is a lie to say the war was fought over tariffs. It is a lie to say secession was legal. It is a lie to say that President Lincoln trampled the Constitution. It is a lie to say that Union soldiers raped and murdered their way across the south. It is a lie to say there were thousands of black rebel soldiers.
It is even a lie to say that rebel arms were especially effective.
Those are all lies, and they need to be exposed as such.
Walt