Calling them “traitors” is painfully inaccurate, anyway. They didn’t go fight for an enemy country. They fought for what they believed their country was. Right or wrong, that is as far from being a traitor as it gets.
Even then, only the winner decides who to call a traitor…
I think we can all agree they were wrong though. Traitor may be the wrong term, but being remembered as anything but the bad guy is not moral.
Depends on the perspective. Not all of them were fighting solely over slavery. Make no mistake, I am pretty confident the right side won. But, it isn’t nearly as black and white as the victor’s history books have made it.
To be fair, that is pretty consistent throughout all of recorded history…
I mean technically yeah he was the loser.
Nope. I even said the right side almost certainly won. I was simply pointing out that to the victor goes the spoils. Essentially the victor frames the narrative throughout all of recorded history. All I am saying is it isn’t nearly as cut and dry as many say. It was NOT good vs. evil like it is often portrayed. If you really study the Civil War from an overall perspective, instead of reading just the equivalent MSNBC or Fox versions, you will see many on the South had legit reasons to fight for what they believed their country was, without slavery being at the center.
With that said, my response solely revolved around calling them “traitors”. No matter your stance on the motivations for the war, they were literally fighting for their country…
What is INCREDIBLY AMAZING about ^^^^^^^ ALL this is these "self righteous PUNKs" having the darn right AUDACITY to believe they, and ONLY they have the right and ability to make the rules!??!!??! I have to believe, it comes from them never getting PUNCHED in the mouth, and awarded a trophy for sitting on the bench while coming in last!!!!
These "new generation" "THEYS" have some set of "balls" sitting behind a computer!!! OH they will tell you what is right, what can be said, how you can say it, if it is offensive etc...... ONLY these THEYS know EVERYTHING as they sit in mommy's basement eating hot pockets and watching fake news all day!!!
I mean I have always asked them to at least take a stand for SOMETHING!!! Go outside and clean up a park, maybe scoop some poo off the streets if you are in NYC or SF!!! Help the homeless and less fortunate etc..... Become of some use to society!!!! I guess the problem is, when confronted in REAL life, they would fold faster than a CARD HOUSE!!!!
I always wondered why many SOUTHERNERS didn't like those from the North so much? I guess we can ALL see here pretty clearly why??? Seems that some of you think you are better then them huh???? Again, I am NOT from down south, but I respect them, their heritage and most of all their PRIDE!!!
As MSU pointed out, " YOU ALL" might want to actually study the CIVIL WAR!!! It certainly was not AMERICAs best time!!! That being said, BOTH side fought VALIANTLY!!!! What is MOST important at the end of the day without digging TWOOOO deep here is. The CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS are recognized same as the UNION SOLDIERS and that is. They were AMERICAN SOLDIERS!!!
For those trying to put them down, it just shows how stupid you really are!!! Also this was only one point that I am actually glad I brought up because it really shows "TRUE COLORS" as someone said about me!!!