This question is a reference to these lemmy users who were insulting all russians in the “expulsion of russian maintainers” thread because according to them the majority back putin.

  • MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I’ve been learning about the history of the Civil War. Progressive politics in America are the exception not the rule, hundreds of thousands of Americans died because they wanted to own other human beings as property.

    • Billiam@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Alternatively, hundreds of thousands of Americans died because they thought owning other human beings was morally wrong.

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        11 days ago

        Silver lining I guess. But it was more to save the preservation of the Union, there were still slave states in the Union during the Civil War. And non-blacks still thought they were superior to blacks even if they didn’t believe in slavery, and that was the majority opinion long after the Civil war too.