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If you joke about how you wish the south had been allowed to secede, the only conclusion I can come to is that you're a screaming racist who is completely ignorant of civil rights history. Don't get it twisted, y'all. White folks in the north had basically NOTHING to do with that progress.

Ruth Zakarin@ruthz.bsky.social

This is the bazillionth reason why no one should flippantly talk about getting rid of the southern states. We should never turn our backs on the powerful organizing happening there. We should not cast away the activists working to make change — and who in doing so risk way more than we do up north.

And I was raised in New England. I know that I was taught in elementary school that the Bad Folks in the South wanted to continue slavery so all the Good Folks in the North fought them over it, but if you're older than 9 & that is still the framework you're bringing to politics, we have issues.

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