re: #46 HappyWarrior

That they claim Lincoln was a racist as a defense of the CSA I think is hilarious. Not exactly like Jefferson Davis and the CSA leadership were all about seeing beyond race and treated people by the content of their character. I actually do think Lincoln could have been a little better but A) I’m guilty of hindsight bias and B) I’ll take the word of a man like Frederick Douglass who lived during those times and knew many abolitionists and such who said that Lincoln was the only white man he felt treated him as an equal and Douglass was far from a Lincoln fanclub member. He criticized him often during Lincoln’s lifetime.

HURR HURR FREDERICK DOUGLASS WAS A REPUBLICAN!!!!!11!!!1

Yeah but if he was alive today he’d be a Democrat.

HURR HURR MLK WAS A REPUBLICAN!!!!11!!!!!!

No he wasn’t. (provides citation)

HURR HURR stanford.edu A BUNCH OF COMUNISTS!!!!!!!