A retired Tennessee law enforcement officer was held in jail for more than a month this fall after police arrested him over a Facebook post of a meme related to the September assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Prosecutors eventually dropped the criminal charge brought against Larry Bushart, but his stint behind bars came to exemplify the country’s tense political and legal climate following the tragedy, when conservatives sought to stymie public discourse about the late controversial figure that it saw as objectionable.
Now, Bushart is suing over his incarceration.
Exactly. The slave states didn’t care about states rights at all. All they cared about was keeping slaves. If the believed in what they were saying about states rights, they wouldn’t have tried to force non-slave states to turn over freed slaves. The entire “confederates wanted states rights” argument is bullshit. They used the states right excuse to uphold the practice of slavery, and completely ignored these rights when they were used against slavery.
The Confederacy was about keeping slaves, and it was not about upholding the sovereignty of states. That was myth invented after the war was lost to whitewash the people who fought for the “right” to own and abuse human beings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy
You can keep arguing after this I guess, but from this point forward, you would be knowingly promoting and defending a racist slaver-apologizing fraudulent piece of revisionist history.
I would love to see your evidence about that one. I’m quite sure free states cared very very much about state sovereignity hence their objections to shave owning states attempting to exert their authority in free states what with the war about it and all.
No shit? I wonder if we went over this already? Oh yes, we did in fact already talk about this and simply disagreeing with the framework they chose to make their argument does not make it any less of a fact.
I already provided pre war evidence that directly refutes your feelings on the matter.
This isn’t lost cause theory, it’s stating a series of facts you simply don’t agree with.
I’m not promoting anything you buffoon, you’re simply trying to call me a racist because you can’t win the argument because the facts simply aren’t on your side.
Since you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, there were 6 sources cited in the quote alone.
I didn’t see it, I still don’t see it, so go ahead and quote it back to me your support of Lost Cause Confederacy talking points.
Read the Lost Cause page, or even better, I’ll put the relevant section in here for you since you clearly won’t bother to educate yourself.
Unimportance of slavery
The movement that took The Lost Cause for its name had multiple origins, but its unifying contention was that slavery was not the primary cause of the Civil War[8][18] and would have naturally perished.[1] This narrative denies or minimizes the explanatory statements and constitutions published by the seceding states—for example, the wartime writings and speeches of CSA vice president Alexander Stephens and especially his Cornerstone Speech. Lost Cause historians instead favor the more moderate postwar views of Confederate leaders.[19]
Confederate president Jefferson Davis wrote about the place of the South’s enslaved African Americans in his The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881)
[The negro soldiers’] servile instincts rendered them contented with their lot, and their patient toil blessed the land of their abode with unmeasured riches. Their strong local and personal attachment secured faithful service … Never was there happier dependence of labor and capital on each other. The tempter came, like the serpent of Eden, and decoyed them with the magic word of “freedom” … He put arms in their hands, and trained their humble but emotional natures to deeds of violence and bloodshed, and sent them out to devastate their benefactors.[20][21]
I’m not saying you’re a racist slavery-apologist historical revisionist btw, but I am saying that you keep repeating and defending racist slavery-apologist historical revisionist propaganda materials, despite being provided ample evidence and resources to know that what you are saying is racist slavery-apologist historical revisionist propaganda.
Then you should be able to quote one directly that says “no one cared about states rights”.
Jefferson Davis to Congress feb2 1860, almost exactly 1 year before seceding. You’ll notice it’s all about states rights because that’s the legal framework they chose to use since owning people was legal at the federal level.
https://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/archives/documents/jefferson-davis-resolutions-relations-states
Point to where I said or implied slavery was not the primary cause of the civil war. I won’t hold my breath because that isn’t something I’ve said nor would say. What I have said is that you’re wrong to say started rights weren’t involved or weren’t the primary reason the federal government got involved. Hell, Lincoln specifically campaigned on not getting involved in slavery.
Yes Jefferson Davis was a slave owner and a racist, that isn’t news. It’s also something I’ve not argued against but you simply won’t stop reading into my words things that simply do not exist in them.
You’ve quite literally said I’m stuck in lost cause theory which would make me an apologist and likely racist. Save the bullshit.
Are you fucking serious?! Took me less than 10 seconds. Unlike you, when I make a claim, I can back it up with direct quotes and sources.
Take your ball and go home.
That’s me quoting the person person above me hence the quote shift.
And that person was you. So unless you’re saying you were stating a support for slavery you might want to rethink that genius attempt to discredit me.
Get the fuck out. Did you miss the part where you said…
…which was in reference to me saying "states rights is a bullshit excuse?
Which I literally screenshotted , highlighted, and made giant red arrows pointing to it.
Do I need to do that all in-text for you? Are you using a braille display or something?
Edit: Fuck it, went back to your original comment that prompted all of this. You sole position in there was that states rights was the founding principle of the Confederacy, and you even recognize there that it was complete bullshit excuse, but also claim that it was the sole cause for secession (and thus the civil war).
Yes their main complaint is that a slave in one state is a Freeman crossing the border to another. They complain about it at length and it was indeed the framework they attempted to use to legalize their secession. That’s fairly common knowledge so I’m not sure why you would take issue with that nor do I see how you taste it as denial of slavery.
To which I replied
Which is accurate, something being idiotic does not make it unfactual. “They’re stealing our jobs, they’re all criminals” is a shitty excuse to attempt to deport millions does that at all change the fact that is the excuse they’re trying to use? I say no but I’d love to know your opinion on it.
All this time and you didn’t bother to find out what the actual contention was? Educators can’t say it wasn’t about states rights because it was, it’s rooted in slavery sure but that’s not the cause of the civil war both Jefferson Davis and Lincoln agree on this and notably slavery was never abolished in this country.
Un-fucking-beleiveable.
Well anyway, we’ve already established previously that you tacitly admitted to being a disingenuous troll, not sure why I’m bothering at this point anymore. Someone needed to counter your fake bullshit, and coming with direct quotes from you and actual links to actual references well establishes that you know what you are saying is a false re-writing of history to whitewash the fucking morons that betrayed the country to fight for the “right” to deny foundational rights and freedoms to others.