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remember the time we debated white supremacist slaveholders, compromised with the Missouri Compromise, and got Bleeding Kansas anyway?

then had a 4 year war wherein we had to burn the south down so they would stop owning human beings?

Rogers's Law: Look for the helpers.

Corollary: If you look around and don't see any helpers, the helper is you.

A little while back I saw an /r/AskHistorians question on whether there was ever a post-U.S. Civil War equivalent to "denazification".

The answer is that this is what is happening NOW. That is essentially what people are trying to do by renaming buildings, taking down statues, teaching history that doesn't whitewash or glorify slave-owners, etc.

Imagine if Germany took 150 YEARS to tear down Nazi statues, ban the swastika, etc. That's us. 🔁

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