• Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    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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      4 days ago

      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.