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thehunter said:

RolStoppable said:

Let's take another look then: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9597930

thehunter said:

By the 1860s when the Civil War had broken out, slavery was used as a propaganda tool on both sides (Lincoln needed it as much as southern leaders to have a moral cause to justify families sending their boys to die in the most brutal war to-date in US history).

It's right there. You said that Southern leaders used their desire to uphold slavery as a moral cause to get Southerners to sign up for their military. There's no ambiguity here.

Quote me saying it was a cause worth dying for.  Reading compression goes a long way!

It's right up there. If it hadn't been a cause worth dying for, slavery could not have served as a propaganda tool for Southern leaders.

By the way, there's probably nobody here who disagrees with the argument that Southerners in the Civil War fought for upholding slavery. The only one who tried to argue otherwise was you when you brought up state rights, an old and already exposed lie of the far-right which served the purpose of plausible deniability. That's why it was striking that you let it slip that Southerners viewed slavery as a good moral cause to go to war, because that's the thing you wanted to avoid saying all along.