re: #113 Shiplord Kirel

Just dishonest, a garden variety right wing lie. although “representation in the government” is a new one on me. I am used to the idea of “a tariff” being responsible since this was taught in the revisionist propaganda that passed for history in the public schools of Texas when I was young. They never could explain when this tariff was proposed, what the enabling legislation was called, what the provisions were, or what the south found so objectionable, but “a tariff” was declared by the teachers and coaches to be the cause, and so it was.
None of the secession ordinances mention a tariff at all. All but South Carolina’s include eloquent defenses of slavery however. That of Texas goes on for two (of its 3) paragraphs about the institution and the need to protect it.

Heritage of Hate: Dylann Roof, White Supremacy and the Truth About the Confederacy

…they insist that the flag and more broadly the Confederacy itself was not about racism. Indeed, they insist the flag is about “heritage, not hate.” It’s an old canard and one that we who are southerners have heard all of our lives: The Confederacy was about state’s rights, they insist, or tariffs, or taxes, or an intrusive “central government.” That anyone could still believe such things is testament to the broken and utterly pathetic state of American education.

…But now, and let us be clear on this point: it is time for the rest of us to finish that war, once and for all. It is time to bury the Confederacy and everything for which it stood; to destroy for all time the white supremacist culture that Dylann Roof and his compatriots so cherish; and this time, completely and without pardon.

timwise.org

Chapter and verse of all the secession declarations. It’s long, but everything is there for anyone who wants to quote particular passages.