• what was the cause of the United States Civil War?

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 28 12:25:36 2023
    Nikki Haley didn't say slavery caused the Civil War. Now she's facing
    major backlash
    ...
    ...
    At an event on Wednesday, a voter asked Haley: "what was the cause of
    the United States Civil War?"

    She replied that the cause "was basically how government was going to
    run, the freedoms, and what people could and couldn't do."

    "I think it always comes down to the role of government and what the
    rights of the people are," Haley continued. "And I will always stand
    by the fact that, I think, government was intended to secure the
    rights and freedoms of the people."

    After Haley gave her answer, the voter told her that it was
    "astonishing" that she gave an answer "without mentioning the word
    'slavery.'"

    Last night, President Biden said on X in response to a video of this
    exchange that the Civil War was indeed "about slavery."

    https://www.npr.org/2023/12/28/1221988690/nikki-haley-didnt-say-slavery-caused-the-civil-war-now-shes-facing-major-backlas

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 28 19:54:34 2023
    @gtconway3d
    Next she's gonna tell us that today the Holocaust means riding trains
    and the need for better infrastructure


    @kaitlancollins

    Nikki Haley today: "Of course the Civil War was about slavery. We know
    that. That's the easy part of it. What I was saying was what does it
    mean to us today? What it means to us today is about freedom. That's
    what that was all about."

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