["The US Constitution is crap and the writers belong in hell. That’s a solid position. Good luck with that." ]
The framers endorsed slavery.
Yeah, they're evil even the non-slave owners. They created the conditions for the civil war. The civil war that the evil south won after the 10 year armistice.
Yeah, the 9th circle is fitting for the evil Framers. There are plenty of Americans to hang out with. Too bad they won, black people would have been freed sooner.
Fuck the framers & their white working class suckers, still suckers today.
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I guess these numbnuts got tired of cherry picking the constitution ( which now prevents slavery, which the Bible does not) and decided just to condemn it to hell like every thing else.Also, I don't remember the south winning the civil war.
The Constitution was a compromise. Without it, without the compromies allowing slavery, the South would have likely gone its own way and not been part of a country where the Civil War would have happened.
It wasn't perfect, particularly by modern standards. But for the time, it was pretty damned good.
The civil war that the evil south won after the 10 year armistice.
Um, what? I don't see any states allowing slavery any more. Of course, seeing as how we are still stuck with the South, maybe we did lose that war.
@NeoMIatrix
I'm sure that everyone who lives south of the Mason-Dixon line deserves to be painted with the same brush. The Civil War was fought because the southern states wouldn't accept that the democratic majority disagreed with them. So, when someone like you gets pissy that southern Americans have opinions that he doesn't agree with, you end up acting more like the Confedaracy than the people you disagree with. Everyone has the right to be heard, no matter their stance.
"I guess these numbnuts got tired of cherry picking the constitution ( which now prevents slavery, which the Bible does not) and decided just to condemn it to hell like every thing else.Also, I don't remember the south winning the civil war."
Daily Kos is leftist. I think a2nite is trying to say that all whites are Klansmen.
@Insult to Rocks
Everyone has the right to be heard, no matter their stance.
Pedantic disagreement here: Everyone has the right to voice their opinion, but nobody has the right to be heard. If people had the right to be heard, then others would be forced to sit and listen to them, like Huckabee said we should do for David Barton.
"We're talking about people who ENSLAVED OTHER HUMAN BEINGS. For that alone, they should've been wiped out."
In this case, you just advocated exterminating the ancestors of pretty much EVERY human being?!?!
Of course, slavery is bad, but trying to apply modern standards to the past can be incredibly treacherous (of course, so is relativism), and it certainly does not justify GENOCIDE!!!
NeoMatrix, please answer honestly: Would you, in the wake of World War II, have supported wiping out Germany or Japan?
I cannot edit my above comment anymore, but I want to stress that I am not defending slavery, especially not in the context of the US Civil War. I just think that, just like cultural relativism, presentism has to be employed carefully. And, well, the vengeful extremism of the statement is disturbing.
@NeoMatrix
On both my mother and fathers side of my family some fought for the North and some for the South, some had slaves some were Abolitionists. So should part of my family wipe out the other part? Also, Mimic Octopus is correct, given that slavery has been a part of numerous civilizations through out history you are basically calling for the extermination of a large part of the human race
I never thought I'd see the day when people on this board would be minimizing the evils of slavery.
@Mimic
And what about the huge number of people who want to secede and go back to those "glory days"? Perhaps I did overstate myself, but I think the historical results of slavery speak for themselves. It's the fact that people still wish to go back to that era that really irks me about historical slavery. Humanity should've evolved past that by now. Unfortunately, I can't go back and edit the post.
Also, Germany and Japan were not nations literally built on slavery from their very creation. Both countries were far more civilized before fascist governments came to power. It's a rather poor comparison.
@#1892509
Yes, your family should've wiped out the other part - not only were they slaving Confederate scum, but they were also traitors to the United States who started a brutal war and then caused untold suffering long after the war ended.
And my ancestor was an active abolitionist who helped stopped the Confederate rebellion, a fact that I'm eternally proud of. Too bad he and his peers didn't go further.
@Zach
So you would've rather just let them torture and work innocent people to death? I guess it's "extremism" now to consider human beings owning other human beings as pure evil.
@NeoMatrix
You hate those who deprived others of freedom and treated them with unparalleled cruelty and depravity because of an accident of being born the "wrong" race from the primitive and ignorant point of view of their slavers and I agree that slavery was one of the greatest abominations in the history of the human race, and yet you display an equally callous and cold attitude towards the decendents of those unenlightened and ignorant people, you call for the destruction of the decendents of those people, men, women, and children, who never have had, and never can have, influence over the actions of their ancestors, you would kill people, some of whom might not even know of the evils committed by their family in the past, and those who know of it and now seek to make amends in even the smallest most insignificant way, even though they know it will never be enough, by fighting, by whatever means they can, to help the decendents of the people wronged directly or indirectly by the families they come from, and to help others who even today are still considered "second class" a phrase that needs to be wiped out of our language by the way. Your idea of "justice" is as cruel and evil as the worst radical fundamentalist interpretation of the verses in the bible about the sins of the father being visited upon the son.
You said that one of your ancestors was an abolitionist and the others weren't, are you willing to kill your own family for the wrongs done by those ancestors, given the fact that you obviously are not a clone of that abolitionist, and carry within you the DNA of others, some of which may have been slave owners are you willing to kill yourself?
@#1892827
It was the sons of the Confederates who segregated black people for nearly a century and lynched them en masse. It was the sons of the Confederates who turned my country into a Republican Christian theocracy, killed millions in the Middle East, and run our economy into the ground.
They are not really much different than their fathers. It's not the sins of the father put onto the son; it's the sins of the son that the son continued from his father.
And you question is irrelevant; none of my ancestors/relatives come from the South or owned slaves. I'm of French-Canadian, German, and Wisconsinite stock, as are the other members of my family. I know because I've actually checked it myself - I have an interest in genealogy in real life, as do my grandparents.
@NeoMatrix
According to what you have said here and elsewhere on FSTDT you believe that anyone living who does not meet your standards of what is right, of "perfection" should be killed, anyone descended from those who did not live up to your standards of "perfection" in the past should be killed. You believe that everyone living who does not meet your standards of "perfection" of what you have decided is "right" should be exterminated.
Congratulations you have the morality of a Dalek.
@#1892863
Oh please, do you seriously think I would be able to do all that? You're flattering me.
And if I really believed that everyone who didn't meet my standards should die, I would want everyone else on this board dead. Except I don't. Try again.
@NeoMatrix
Sorry but lately you have come across in your posts as just as much of a hate filled and intolerant person as those you look down on, calling for whole groups of people to be killed basically just for being born into, or being part of the "wrong" groups, be it families descended from people who's actions in the past you do not approve of, religions you do not agree with, or whatever else you do not like. How is this any different from some intolerant white racist
who hates someone for being African , or Hispanic, or Jewish. Or a bible thumping conservative who labels all Muslims as terrorists?
I cannot edit my above comment anymore, but I want to stress that I am not defending slavery and especially not the rebellion of the South. I just think that, just like cultural relativism, presentism has to be employed carefully. And, well, the vengeful extremism of the statement.
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