Typical commie. "Hell, just tax it".
You are right, I'm a Communist. Thank you for bringing that to my attention.
My god, you still don't get it.
Your god.
If you are going to continue to be purposefully ignorant on this topic, then what about the flag of the USA? It flew on slave ships and in a country where slavery fluorished for 90 years.
The American Flag that I see flying around has fifty stars on it. Also, the entire existence of the USA was not in an effort to defend slavery. The framers of the Constitution made compromises with some Southern states, knowing that the compromises were imperfect yet also realizing that without said compromises America would never flourish. It was choosing the lesser of two evils; the CSA, on the other hand, demonstrated their willingness to destroy America in an effort to protect the institution of slavery.
If this stance of mine is purposefully ignorant, in your opinion, so be it.
The southern armies, the men that did the fighting, were not fighting to defend slavery.
The men that do the fighting, in most all wars throughout history, are ideologically disconnected from the reasons they are sent to war. I figured I had demonstrated this point; apparently, you still do not get it.
I will expound further. I would argue that while the majority of German officers in WWII might have tacitly supported the Final Solution and World Domination, most were never involved in the actual systematic extermination of peoples. On the flip side, I would argue that the majority of officers in the CSA did own slaves, to include an overwhelming majority of General Officers (while Lee did free his slaves before the war; he did at one time own them).
The Confederate battle flag was THEIR symbol, the symbol of the soldiers. it was not a political symbol but a symbol of men and solidarity. I will bet you that you can't find a legitimite historian that will deny this. I will repeat an earlier post:
The Northern armies were not fighting to free the slaves and the Southern armies were not fighting to defend slavery. The goal of the North was to defeat the Confederacy in order to restore the Union; the goal of the South was to win its fight for independence.
You are correct that the North was not fighting to free slaves; you egregiously err in trying to state that the entire existence of the CSA did not depend upon the foundation of protecting the institution of slavery.
From the beginning to the end, Lincoln made it clear that slavery/emancipation was secondary to reunion. (As it happened, the fate of 4 million slaves hung in the balance once Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.)
Most Southerners owned no slaves--many such as Lee and Jackson favored gradual emancipation--but they were strongly opposed to abolition for political, economic and social reasons. Moreover, the powerful minority of slaveholders were calling the shots (politically speaking). In short, slavery precipitated secession and doomed the Confederacy. The Confederate government was unwilling to sacrifice slavery for the cause of independence, so there was no chance for a negotiated (political) settlement of the war. In this sense, it unintentionally became a war for/against slavery, but that was not why the two sides were fighting.
Have any historian dispute this, you dope.
It did not unintentionally become a war over slavery. From Bleeding Kansas to Harper's Ferry to Fort Sumter, the main issue was always slavery.
On top of that, the Stars and Bars continued to be displayed and celebrated throughout the post-war South by persons who were hell-bent on continuing the institutional oppression of African-Americans, which was government sanctioned through the 1960s.
Your continued argument that the Rebel flag does not stand as a symbol of white supremacy over African-Americans is absolutely ridiculous. You are simply trying to place that flag in a vacuum in which all it has ever stood for was a rallying cry and a call to arms for all the poor folk soldiers who were just trying to defend their homes from Northern Aggressors, while intentionally ignoring any and all historical claims concerning slavery and oppression before, during, and after the war.
