Raptorific
I go to Temple and enjoy soda. I also like dinosaurs and Batman. I promise, I am not a child.
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kaipai replied to your post: pobody replied to your post: I like Community’s…
i think you hit the nail on the head right here
This is just a metaphor
Do not trust me with a hammer
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Up top is Julia Neale, then at the bottom (because more people have read since I first posted them) are Clooney and Jay.
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kaipai replied to your post: Two things: Let me know if you want to read…
yessir yessir, same page and password?
Here’s the direct link, and the password is the same. Updates can pretty much always be found at raptoriffic.tumblr.com (with two F’s instead of one).
And I’ll tag you in the picture of Julia so you can see it!
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sustaining-demagoguery replied to your post: I wrote another chapter does anyone want to read…
YES :D
polypoiesis replied to your post: I wrote another chapter does anyone want to read…
Can I just get the yearly subscription? Thx.
kaipai replied to your post: I wrote another chapter does anyone want to read…
Meeeeeeeeeeeeeee
The link is here, and the password is the same as last time. Kai, hold tight, I’m going to send you both chapters in your ask box along with the password!
Anyone else who wants to read it should send me a message so I can give them the password!
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kaipai replied to your post: How big are these bowls?
THIS IS SO SCARY.
Life… it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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But the civil war wasn't really about slavery. That's a common misconception. Along with "the North was against slavery" and "Lincoln freed the slaves" and "all slaves were beaten and mistreated". It's all much more complicated.
Asked by Anonymous
Wow, you’re as stupid as Nia’s AP American Studies teacher! Luckily, you’re about to get a history lesson, on-the-house. Pay attention. You might be tested.
Most of the after-the-fact rationalized “causes” for the civil war are things that lead back to the institution of slavery:
- “The south was fighting for states’ rights!” The “states’ right” they were fighting for was the right to decide for themselves whether or not to have slavery. Of course, I don’t think it’s the right of anyone to say one person is allowed to own another.
- “The south seceded because they were uncomfortable with the amount of power the northern states were getting in the federal government!” That one’s actually true, they were so worried about the highly-populated north having power over them that they tried to count their slaves as population for the purposes of representation but denied them voting rights so that representatives would be elected who only represented the interests of slaveholders, making it impossible to abolish slavery. The only way this was averted was that the north agreed to compromise and count only three out of every five slaves so the south would not become invincible in its resolve to preserve the institution
- “The south was resisting an increasingly industrialized nation that would cripple their agriculture-based economy.” Slavery was the driving force behind southern economic supremacy. Any rebellion to preserve their economy was at attempt to preserve slavery, because the southern economic prosperity only existed because of slavery.
The fact of the matter is that any reason for the southern states’ secession is fueled by the southern desire to preserve the institution of slavery. When a republican with abolitionist sympathies was elected president, they felt threatened because they knew that they couldn’t maintain economic supremacy if the federal government mandated a ban on slavery, which was almost certain to happen with the abolitionist movement gaining more and more steam.
Because the federal government was attempting to limit the expansion of slavery by admitting new states into the union as “free states” where slavery was illegal and creating a line above which any state admitted had to be free, the soon-to-be-Confederacy was outraged at the government’s attempt to limit the expansion of slavery. In fact, they were so threatened by abolitionist sentiment that at one point a Senator expressed antislavery sentiment and another senator beat him to submission with his cane right there on the senate floor, and southerners sent his hundreds of canes as a thank-you for silencing anti-slavery voices in the senate. Deciding that the natural next step would be attempts to phase out slavery entirely, they seceded from the union in the hopes that the federal government wouldn’t have the authority to abolish slavery and crush the southern economy. Thus, the confederate states of america were born.
However, they might have been racist, but they weren’t stupid. The confederates viewed themselves as the leaders of a second American revolution. The way they told it, they weren’t fighting for slavery, they were fighting for their freedom from a tyrannical government. What they didn’t say was that the “freedom” they sought was freedom from a government that would attempt to take away their right to hold Africans in bondage for the purposes of forced labor.
There were a lot of battles at this point, and half of Virginia seceded back to the Union (which is why there’s “Virginia” and “West Virginia,” because West Virginia didn’t want to be a part of the Confederacy). I’m not going to cover every battle and all the complex political stuff, because that would take forever, but I do want to return to your other assertions of “misconceptions.”
- “The North was against slavery.” Compared to the South, it certainly was. There were certainly northerners who held Confederate sympathies and were pro-slavery, a prime example being John Wilkes Booth. The northern states, however, largely banned the institution of slavery, and the abolitionist movement was strongest in the north, especially compared to the south. It’s true, the north’s primary goal was the reunification of the states. Lincoln’s original position was that if he could save the Union without effecting slavery, he would, but the Emancipation Proclamation was his way of telling the rebelling states that there was no way to save the union without abolishing slavery, and that the union would be reunited.
- “Lincoln freed the slaves.” Actually, the idea that this is a misconception is a common misconception. Lincoln didn’t free the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation. That was just a reiteration that this war wasn’t about states’ rights or federal power, it was about slavery. However, Lincoln did free the slaves, with the help of the legislative branch. Here’s the receipt:
That’s the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery in the United States. There’s Abraham Lincoln’s signature right there at the bottom. Of course, the southern states were only admitted back into the union on the condition that they ratified this amendment, and this was one of the terms of their defeat. This amendment was put forth because Lincoln knew that with his wartime powers expiring and the slaves in the border states still in bondage, slavery could potentially be brought back if not for a constitutional mandate, so as a condition of reunification, Lincoln made an ironclad rule that outlawed slavery in the U.S. - “All slaves were beaten and mistreated.” The act of designating someone as a slave is mistreating them. Even if an enslaved person never had a hand or whip laid upon them, the fact is that this person has been stripped of their rights. If you designate someone as property, give them orders that they are legally bound to follow, and the penalty for disobedience can be as harsh as murder with no legal consequence, then even if that person is never struck, they are being mistreated because they are enslaved.
- “It’s all much more complicated.” I couldn’t disagree more.
tl;dr The cause of the civil war was the rebellion of the southern states, and all causes for southern secession were rooted in an attempt to preserve the institution of slavery
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kaipai replied to your post: pobody replied to your post: I still think it’s…
Computers tell me my name is spelled wrong all the time so I’ll just stick to calling him Castiel…
One time I had two teachers named Mrs. Bortnick and Mrs. Kroboth and the school computers wanted me to change their names to Mrs. Bootlick and Mrs. Robot.
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Finished product, Spider Nancy from Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys!
Facial reference: Will.I.Am
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Another quick WIP sneak peek. This one’s probably a little easier to guess
