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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
and see...THATS my point....there were people at the time that felt the exact same way. The loyalists of the rev war=the north of the civil war and the colonists=the south
those that saw no problem with King George and the "rulership" he stood for fought those that did...those that saw no problem with Lincoln and HIS ideas for the union fought those that did.
My only point in carrying the conversation in this direction is one group is practically canonized and one group is villified for doing the exact same thing
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Yes, I see your point.
Superbelt and I are pointing out, however, that one group started this nation (underpinning the basis for their acceptance by our culture) while another became opposed to it (underpinning the mainstream rejection of that group's aims and actions).
That's the distinction I am drawing, anyway. So I don't feel any remorse when adherents to that movement feel politically persecuted. I would think they should expect it (as I would if I went to England and started to promote the US poltical perspective--although I suspect it isn't so inciteful over there because of the lack of political and social baggage that the slavery issue calls to mind, rightly or wrongly, over here).