Comments by "" (@shamrock141) on "Debunking the myth of the Lost Cause: A lie embedded in American history - Karen L. Cox" video.

 @tomoth77 the South did start the war, they were the side that opened fire first, firing canons at a union fort and beginning the civil war
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States' rights to do what exactly? Oh that's right, own slaves. Slavery is the primary cause of the war, it was written down as such in the secession documents, the southern states broke away after rejecting the democratically elected president who had a reputation of being an abolitionist.
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Exactly zero of the states that broke away abolished slavery, this is by far the weakest argument trying to rewrite the civil war yet.
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No, it wouldn't have, at least not then. Slavery was the primary reason highlighted in those secession documents, and the South chose to break away because they rejected the democratically elected president who had a reputation for being an abolitionist.
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Yeah the South is, always eager to keep those confederate flags up and pretending that their ancestors weren't massive racists
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@themaverickproject4577 it was the primary reason, the south would not have been disgruntled enough and mustered enough political will to launch a civil war if slavery was not such an integral part of the south's culture and economy.
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@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558 lol the "no u" response, classic. I already have done better Patrick, I've read the secession documents, both Georgia and Texas call out Lincoln by name and occupation, and assert their disgust at him. "The party of Lincoln, called the Republican party, under its present name and organization, is of recent origin. It is admitted to be an anti-slavery party... anti-slavery is its mission and its purpose." -Georgia Declaration of Secession So yes, they did have a problem with Lincoln, and what he and his party represented. Now you do have a point that they had a problem with the Republican Party at large and the political will they represented, that being the abolition and noncompliance of slavery and I find that hilarious. The southern states were a bunch of hissy fit throwing hypocrites, preaching from the mountains about States' Rights, about their right to self determinate, but what they actually had a problem with was Northern States not letting them send their bounty hunters and law enforcement into the North to kidnap escaped slaves, the fact that the North had chosen to eliminate slavery in their territory and those southerners couldn't exert their southern laws in northern territory, apparently States rights to self determinate didn't matter then. No matter how you try to spin this, slavery was the forefront of the reason for the civil war
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@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558 you're going to need to do better than supposition. The seceding states made it very clear that they feared Lincoln would impose on the institution of slavery and rejected the democratic election that they had all partaken in, they didn't even wait for his inauguration to leave.
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@tomoth77 so the South decides that the electoral system they all had agreed to before the elections was null and void because they didn't get the man they wanted, declared that they weren't going to honour the elections and splinter off into their own nation, and then proceed to try and force the government out of a fort, choosing to open fire on it and killing their fellow Americans, starting the civil war. God the propaganda machine in the South must be good if they can convince you they were justified
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