• Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml
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    fact remains that not only did he target what had become a minority group on the islands

    The American Civil War was actually the oppression of a South American minority group (white European slave owners)

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      Did Sherman hunt down their families, after the slaves were freed?

      When you start bayonetting all children of the wrong ethnicity, because shooting them might be too noisy and let others escape, it doesn’t really matter what justifications started the conflict. There was a line and it is behind you.

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        The line was subjugating and enslaving people - the colonists got their children killed. Also, how the fuck do you look at America today and conclude Sherman went far enough?

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          Systematic killing of children cannot be justified by a war that’s already over, no matter how justified that war was. Dessalines rode from city to city making good and goddamn sure those children got murdered for being born wrong.

          Nobody with criticisms about reconstruction thinks the right answer was genocide.