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Topic	Why is Robert E Lee so overrated
brestugo 09/10/21 2:53:20 PM #44:	RickyTheBAWSE posted... why did poor Whites fight and die so rich Whites could keep free labor rather than fill a poor White man's pocket with a living wage? you'd think a tradition of getting suckered into rich people's problems would have been broken by now, but Southerners dug their heels in the dirt and made it part of their heritage. The Confederacy, including the president Jefferson Davis and the VP Alexander Stephens and hundreds of pamphleteers sold the idea of "White privilege". They coined the term. Even if you didn't own slaves, you could benefit from being of the same skin tone of those who did and be de jure above the black race. That is how slaveowners got non slave owning whites to fight for them. As LBJ put it: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." --- Voted NO and left the second question blank. <cite>brestugo posted [p:957921137] in Why is Rob... [t:79654880]...</cite> <quote>RickyTheBAWSE posted... </cite> <quote>why did poor Whites fight and die so rich Whites could keep free labor rather than fill a poor White man's pocket with a living wage? you'd think a tradition of getting suckered into rich people's problems would have been broken by now, but Southerners dug their heels in the dirt and made it part of their heritage.</quote>The Confederacy, including the president Jefferson Davis and the VP Alexander Stephens and hundreds of pamphleteers sold the idea of "White privilege". They coined the term. Even if you didn't own slaves, you could benefit from being of the same skin tone of those who did and be de jure above the black race. That is how slaveowners got non slave owning whites to fight for them. As LBJ put it: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." --- Voted NO and left the second question blank.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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