About Critics (Part II)

[userwhoquitthesite]

You know what? fuck it. [snip]

Oh, that incivil MovieBob. I do declare! How dare he upset all these nice, polite people with the having opinions and such? After all, just look at how nice and civil they all are, and what illuminating and constructive commentary they provide! Why, I'll bet this @8-Bit_Jack gentleman could even tell us where MovieBob called "religious people" stupid -- the blind among us only saw him call "Creationism" stupid, and while I admit the last time I checked "Creationists" did not represent all "religious people," I'm sure there must be some sense in which pretending otherwise makes 8-Bit and others like him look upstanding and just in their judgments of the situation. Alas, it seems we shall never know.

A good number of times, actually, in various pieces of work. And you are right, he does have a right to his own opinions and you have a right to keep listening to them. I also have the right to voice my dissatisfaction with MovieBob's increasingly self-righteous rants and to NOT bother listening to them anymore.

Also, twitter is stupid. Stop putting @ where it doesn't belong.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

The stuff about size or reach of federal power has always been a smoke screen and nothing more, right from the days when the defeated Confederacy started pretending their cause had been about "states' rights."

And what was it about, slavery?

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

Also, twitter is stupid. Stop putting @ where it doesn't belong.

Uhhh, that was a typo. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

Suuuuuure. You twitter-advancing scum. STOP TRYING TO CORRUPT OUR CHILDREN.

And no, the civil war wasn't about slavery.

The south fought on fear that the bearded man would come and make them all poor, and the north fought because them uppity southerners sure can't have their way!

No one in power cared about slavery, and had South Carolina not LOST THEIR SHIT following Lincoln's election, the deplorable exploitation of blacks would have continued happily, despite the vocal protest from the Abolitionist movement. As to whether or not it'd have been solved eventually or continued today, I can't say (and neither can you, don't bother trying).

Slavery was a catalyst for a long-brewing conflict between the north and south. To say that the war was entirely or even mostly concerned over the issue of slavery is a fallacy.

And yes, twitter (and facebook) are surely the footsteps of doom