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[-] yabai@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Oh I've got a good one. Learned in the American south. Supposedly the American Civil War was not fought over slavery, but differing railroad track widths. Slavery was a minor detail that was a scape goat for the north to force the south to use its standard railroad width.

[-] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The American South (several institutions, not necessarily the ppl) will attempt to make any minor issue as the root cause of the Civil War, except for the slavery issue.

Afterall, slavery and racism wasn't that ingrained in the society. If you look past the court cases, extra judicial killings, lynching, riots, coups and massacres.

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