This is but one of many examples in this thread where you try to put words into an opponent's mouth by setting up a loaded question that implies a bunch of things he never said. Strawman much? Your confederate, iLLiterate, refused to acknowledge the capable combat service of hundreds of American women who served as equals to the men during the Civil War. Never once did iLLiterate acknowledge their accomplished, equal service; rather, iLLIterate went out of his way to denigrate the documented records of their service. So no words were put in his mouth, that is his position; hence, there was no 'straw man' argument from this quarter, you pretentious Yankee fuck.
And you do all that while simultaneously setting yourself up as some kind of politically correct defender of women, children, minorities, gays, etc. While you sit with your pea-brained head up your enormous ass, there is extant evidence indicting the North for it's complicity in the slave trade. Forty cents out of every dollar made off slave picked cotton went into some Yankee fuck's pocket. New York City built scores of slave ships and continued the slave trade long after it was banned by the U.K. and the U.S. Those are all facts in the record books, you pretentious Yankee fuck. There is further extant evidence that ignorant, pretentious Yankee jackasses – like yourself – stick your heads in your ass and strive to deny those facts. Your very posts indict your ignorant ass, you pretentious Yankee fuck.
You forget your place. But we have not. It’s not from lack of effort on your part that you haven’t forgotten, you pretentious Yankee fuck! You vigorously strive to hide and deny your malodorous place in the past, but others have documented your complicity, and that complicity is historical fact. You are a redneck, Confederate sympathizer who spends night and day trying to spread the blame for slavery and the Civil War as far as possible from the actual practitioners of slavery and the state governments that permitted and nourished it. New York was one of those states that permitted and nourished slavery, you pretentious Yankee fuck. New Yorkers financed the slave trade. New Yorkers built the slave ships. New Yorkers manufactured the slave shackles. New Yorkers harbored the slave ships. New Yorkers insured the slave ships and their slave cargoes. New Yorkers crewed the slave ships. New Yorkers engaged in the slave trade. New Yorkers profited off the slave trade, and New Yorkers profited off slave agriculture. So fuck you and your ignorant denials, you pretentious Yankee shit. You aren't fooling anybody little twat. You can’t hide your complicity, so you aren’t fooling anybody, you pretentious Yankee fuck.
Originally Posted by ExNYer
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New York Journal of Commerce wrote in 1857, "and that down-town merchants of wealth and respectability are extensively engaged in buying and selling African Negroes, and have been, with comparative little interruption, for an indefinite number of years.”
“By 1860, New York City's reputation for official corruption and leniency toward slavers was unrivaled. Putting money into slaving voyages was considered a good investment—much as one would invest today in AT&T or Microsoft—and although the practice was illegal and the transgressors were widely known, no efforts were made to apprehend either the investors or the traders. Amazingly, it was generally viewed as a "victimless" crime. In fact, when*ever a voice was raised to condemn the practice, New York's businessmen were united in their opposition to change.”
http://www.historynet.com/the-day-ne...-to-secede.htm
It would seem that a dissolution of the Federal Union is inevitable. Having been formed originally on a basis of general and mutual protection, but separate local independence--each State reserving the entire and absolute control of its own domestic affairs, it is evidently impossible to keep them together longer than they deem themselves fairly treated by each other, or longer than the interests, honor and fraternity of the people of the several States are satisfied. Being a Government created by opinion, its continuance is dependent upon the continuance of the sentiment which formed it. It cannot be preserved by coercion or held together by force. A resort to this last dreadful alternative would of itself destroy not only the Government, but the lives and property of the people.
If these forebodings shall be realized, and a separation of the States shall occur, momentous considerations will be presented to the corporate authorities of this city. We must provide for the new relations which will necessarily grow out of the new condition of public affairs.
. . . we must rely upon our own resources and assume a position predicated upon the new phase which public affairs will present, and upon the inherent strength which our geographical, commercial, political, and financial preeminence imparts to us.
With our aggrieved brethren of the Slave States, we have friendly relations and a common sympathy. We have not participated in the warfare upon their constitutional rights or their domestic institutions. . . .
Then it may be said, why should not New York city, instead of supporting by her contributions in revenue two—thirds of the expenses of the United States, become also equally independent? As a free city, with but nominal duty on imports, her local Government could be supported without taxation upon her people. Thus we could live free from taxes, and have cheap goods nearly duty free. In this she would have the whole and united support of the Southern States, as well as all the other States to whose interests and rights under the Constitution she has always been true.
It is well for individuals or communities to look every danger square in the face, and to meet it calmly and bravely. As dreadful as the severing of the bonds that have hitherto united the States has been in contemplation, it is now apparently a stern and inevitable fact. We have now to meet it with all the consequences, whatever they may be. If the Confederacy is broken up the Government is dissolved, and it behooves every distinct community, as well as every individual, to take care of themselves.
When Disunion has become a fixed and certain fact, why may not New York disrupt the bands which bind her to a venal and corrupt master--to a people and a party that have plundered her revenues, attempted to ruin her and a party that have plundered her revenues, attempted to ruin her commerce, taken away the power of self—government, and destroyed the Confederacy of which she was the proud Empire City? Amid the gloom which the present and prospective condition of things must cast over the country, New York, as a Free City, may shed the only light and hope of a future reconstruction of our once blessed Confederacy.”
Fernando Wood, Major. (Mayor of New York City)
January 6th, 1861.
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/l...p?document=435
I don't need to, you Confederate twat. Then why ask the stupid question, you pretentious Yankee jackass?
It's your choice of words that makes it a Freudian slip. After all, you could have said "your Yankee buddy". Guess what, you pretentious Yankee fuck? Used "confederate", so fuck you!
Perhaps it betrays some secret longing on your part to be a northerner instead of a Confederate sympathizer? Heh. You're the pretentious Yankee fuck that was betrayed -- you couldn't get a job in that lousy Yankee job market and had to move south.
Originally Posted by ExNYer
