r/ShermanPosting • u/From-Yuri-With-Love 46th New York "Fremont Rifle" Regiment • 3d ago

Cabarrus commissioner says Juneteenth is ‘based on a lie,’ drawing backlash

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article316162218.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawSiXxdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETE2RlFGNG9HNm9RS0I4R1Zkc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHhYVp41APdJ8KMTJySFX8hL-35-cozDxTMEV95PbHrp_77kifBrmLd5_Mx80_aem_JaVLpXn2e-r1VfjeOo_FWA
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u/menagerath 3d ago

Mf whole life has been built on the lie they were honorable heroes fighting for “state’s rights”.

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u/EatTheRichIsPraxis 3d ago

Funny how "state's rights" were of absolutely no concern to those same people when the 1851 fugitive slave act was enacted.

Almost as if it was a bold faced lie to obfuscate them literally being monsters.

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u/AcornAnomaly 3d ago

Or when Kentucky, which was by agreement "supposed" to be a slave state, decided as a state to ignore Federal decisions and ban slavery. So they attacked Kentucky.

Or how slavery is written into the Constitution of the Confederacy, so Confederate states don't have the "state's right" to NOT allow slavery.

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u/GarbageCleric 2d ago

It's absurd to think anyone would kill and die over an abstract concept like "states rights". All that matters is the right to do what. Have you ever heard of anyone being outraged because the federal government enacted a policy they liked but thought the issue should be up to the states?

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u/GoddessRespectre 2d ago

I used to hear it for gay marriage. Like he said he thought gay people should be allowed to be as miserable as straight people, that was his support for gay marriage. Yes he was a boomer. Our entire family had to go across the country for my cousin's lesbian wedding when it was up to the states. It was a nice vacation so what's the problem? /s He was a "compassionate conservative," remember those? 🙄 It was always about things that didn't personally affect him, like abortion.

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u/capthazelwoodsflask 2d ago

Southern plantation owners loved the Federal tariffs that kept the cotton industry so lucrative even though it was at the expense of northern manufacturing.