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Originally Posted by jammies
The Civil War *was* about states' rights - the right of the states to the institution of slavery. Similarly, these statues *are* historical remembrances - of the antebellum age where anyone white was superior to anyone black.
Neither statement legitimizes veneration of the past when complete and not deceptively shorn of their negative components. This technique of "true" but incomplete declarative statements is a favorite of ideologues of all kinds. The plain, simple truth should immediately arouse the deepest suspicion.
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You can say that I guess but I think it just creates grey areas as people throw a bunch of other minor things into it when the major predominant reason was slavery, racism and white supremacy. It wasn't taxes or various other things.
I believe South Carolina succession reasoning included language that was actually in opposition of states being able to set their own laws. One of their big beefs was New York had set laws about transport of slaves within New York state such that people couldn't even travel with their slaves (not just transport to and from sale).
It was straight up slavery, racism and white supremacy.