Tuesday, January 02, 2024

The New Mason-Dixon Line

There is a difference between the old south and the north, a big difference in education and the results of that difference was…
Nikki Haley doesn't cite slavery as cause of the Civil War after question at campaign stop
She responded it was about “basically how the government was going to run."
ABC News
ByNicholas Kerr, Abigail Cruz, Averi Harper, and Kelsey Walsh
December 28, 2023


Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley did not cite slavery as a cause of the American Civil War on Wednesday night when a town hall attendee asked her what she thought led to the bloody conflict.

The former governor of South Carolina -- the first state to secede from the Union in 1860 -- instead said at the event in Berlin, New Hampshire, that the catalysts were “basically how the government was going to run” and “freedoms and what people could and couldn't do."

The Republican candidate then turned the question around on the person who posed it.

[…]

“I think it always comes down to the role of government and what the rights of the people are. And we will always stand by the fact that I think the government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people,” Haley said. “It was never meant to be all things to all people. Government doesn't need to tell you how to live your life. They don't need to tell you what you can and can't do. They don't need to be a part of your life. They need to make sure that you have freedom.”

The questioner told Haley they thought it was “astonishing” she gave an answer that did not mention slavery.

"What do you want me to say about slavery?” she responded before pivoting and asking for the next question.
Education! Education! Education! It is all about what they were taught in K-12.

You remember that Florida was banning books on slavery well there is a reason for that and it goes back to before the Civil War. The British Daily Mail writes,
The books are under review based on several state laws that restrict classroom topics revolving around race, gender, and sexual orientation, including the Stop WOKE Act and the Parental Rights in Education law - dubbed by detractors as the 'Don’t Say Gay' bill.

[…]

Last month, DeSantis and his administration added to their campaign against lessons branded woke by rejecting an AP African American studies course in public schools because it is 'inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.'
In the Republican controlled states we see topics on race just glossed over slavery as the cause of the Civil War, was the north’s refusal to enforce the federal slave laws. They cite the Fugitive Slave Act where the northern states refused to return run away slaves as the cause of the Civil War. But the thing what was the root cause of the civil war… slavery. The Fugitive Slave Act was about… slavery. The north felt that the Fugitive Slave Act forced them to accept slavery, that by returning run away slave to their “owner.”

So when Nikki Haley gave that answer, that was what she was taught. Southern schools warp the history of the war but that is not the only thing they twist, just look at the protests of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s and how that gets taught. I believe that Nikki Haley not answering with slavery was wrong, the war was fought to end slavery, most northerners were against slavery but some did “own” slaves.



Do you see any similarities between the civil war’s Fugitive Slave Act and now?

Possibly with the abortion laws and the Republican states trying to get medical records from liberal states or like Texas suing a Washington state hospital for medical record of a trans child. With Republican states banning healthcare for us and they fleeing to northern states.

Are we seeing history repeating itself? Are the Republican states going to be suing other states for medical records from states like Connecticut that bans that practice for medical records pertaining to reproduction health?

One of the reasons I believe why this influx of law suits is happening now is that the conservatives believe that Trump’s courts will back them up.

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