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Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread by 0xDEAFBEAD on Saturday September 05, 2026 @04:53AM (#49574628)
I'm pushing back on Chermska1's effort to say that "well actually, the confederacy wasn't really about slavery".
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Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread by anon84873628 on Saturday September 05, 2026 @10:18AM (#49576746)
They didn't say the Confederacy wasn't really about slavery, they said it was much more than that. And it's those more abstract ideologies which have persisted through American politics, as traced in the history podcast episode I posted in a sibling.
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Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread by 0xDEAFBEAD on Sunday September 06, 2026 @05:33AM (#49584739)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy
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