Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
As usual, your interpretation of my words and ideas is absolutely wrong. But your post has nothing to do with what I said: unanimous support and glorification of depredation practiced by the winners of the Civil war. It is what in contemporary Russia epitomized by their можем повторить slogan.
You write from the same place with regularity, the same sentiments in the same register, so the interpretation remains accurate. But as before, it comes from a place of comfortable ignorance, so I'll clarify something that I can admit in principle is worth emphasizing.

When we come to the conclusion that the South needed to experience a broader repression, it is not as a decontextualized expression of vindictiveness as you appear to seize on, but relative to the fact that the failure to eliminate or subordinate the traitor class that had - reminder - waged a brutal war against us became THE central sociopolitical dysfunction of the country's modern history. The Confederate vanguard, whom we didn't hang, pardoned, and rehabilitated in national politics, went on not only to re-enslave their African population, but to coopt entire national institutions and national culture to their vision. Therefore, your instinctive aversion to meeting the agents of violent tyranny with resistance counts as a decisive advocacy on behalf of the kinds of genetic atrocities you would purport to condemn.