• CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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    that the US Civil War was fought over […] “States’ Rights”.

    It was. The right of states to allow slavery and be racist.
    (/s)

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      You don’t need a /s, that’s literally what it was.

      It’s just some people pretend that isn’t what the rights were that the CSA fought for. Those people are morons.

    • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
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      Actually, it’s really the opposite of that. The war wasn’t over States’s rights to allow slavery, it was over State’s rights to disallow slavery. The Kansas-Nebraska act gave states the ability to decide if they wanted it or not, and the racists worried they would get outnumbered by non-slaving states, so they wanted slavery to be mandatory.