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Re:The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [... by XorNot on Friday February 27, 2026 @09:38AM (#47180978)
Whining about States rights to enslave people is certainly a take.

Particularly when in context, the war was caused by the South acting to usurp abolition in the North via the legal system (i.e. Dredd Scott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott)

The importance and applicability of "states rights" is always oddly narrow.

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Re:The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [... by b40d-48b2-979e on Friday February 27, 2026 @10:30AM (#47181684) 

    The importance and applicability of "states rights" is always oddly narrow.
It's also always ignoring the declarations of secession that all explicitly name slavery as the motivation.
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Re:The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [... by wat10000 on Friday February 27, 2026 @01:06PM (#47183499)
The Confederate Constitution was mostly a copy of the US Constitution. One place where it differed is that it forbade any state from abolishing slavery. So the whole "states' rights" thing is obvious baloney.
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