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If we had finished the last civil war properly we wouldn't need another one.

Every man who ever owned a slave should've hung.



watched a political commentary with the primary cast having views similar to yours pretty recently, i believe the most applicable line that would resonate with your intentions would be "the only good bug is a dead bug"

chilling stuff! interesting future we're headed into with messages like yours being the norm.


When in doubt, return fire!


Every man who ever owned a slave in the U.S. is dead. Would you say when the last of that cohort died something improved over when the last slave was freed? Or that killing them sooner would have prevented (or even changed) what was done after Slavery was ended?

It's like saying Germany would be better if every Nazi had been shot. Whatever harm those Nazi's have caused Germany was less then the results of killing people on that measure.


Sounds like genocide.

Let's say I owned slaves, legally, through inheritance.

You want me hanged? Based upon some righteousness you've adopted a hundred years after the events about a topic you've only read about?

Do you ever wonder if you're the monster you want to destroy?


So the people who inherited their slaves were all nice guys, that didn't use whips, rape, murder, and separation of family to force people to do demanding physical labor?

The civil war happened because everyone involved knew it was wrong, but one side valued the money higher and invented these less than human ideas to justify it to themselves.

Everyone who owned slaves should have had all their wealth generated from slaves confiscated and redistributed to the people who did the work. They should have been tried for their crimes, some slave owners were way worse than others, and if that resulted in you being hanged because you were an awful human that was particularly murdery and rapey, then we would have all been better off.




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