Abraham Lincoln was a white supremacist, as well as most white people.
Most white people of European descent saw themselves as superior to opposing cultures. The standard of the day. Labeling Lincoln a "white supremacist" is a bit skewed, contextually speaking.
They wanted, really, to ship them off back to Africa
It was an idea of redress among many.
Liberals are against conservative ideology.
In the sense that possessing one contextual perspective will do that. The same is true for conservatives.
They do not really care about homosexual acts, but rather to use that subculture as a tool to attack conservatism.
That's a bit goofy. Like suggesting conservatives don't care about traditional marriage except as a tool to attack social progressives.
See the correlation there?
I see the cynicism. But I'd say, rather, that liberals have a context and conservatives have another and they move toward their disparate goals. Often those goals conflict. I don't think the point is conflict, but goal oriented.
Now stop pretending like Rebulicans wanting to recriminalize homosexuality isn't for the same reason you all wanted it decriminalized in the first place
Two quick points. I'm not a liberal and you do a disservice to actual liberals (and any sort of rationalist) by doing the standard right wing nonsense of calling everyone to your left a liberal. Second point, my position would be there's no secular justification for criminalizing a private behavior that deprives no one of their right. I don't have to like it anymore than I like the Klan marching on a public street, but that's the nature of the Republic.
It really depends on where you want to draw the line. If you begin responsibility with the first slaves arriving and end with the Emancipation Proclamation, it's closer to two hundred and forty four years. If you don't start counting until we declared independence and end it with the end of the Civil War it's about 89 years. So close to a hundred years as a nation and a lot longer as a people united under a common rule.
