Nazi Flower Power wrote:Dracoria wrote:
Thing is, I frequently find myself a devil's advocate in forums. There are times when I may argue the Confederacy wasn't as bad as some posters say. But I just can't when the Confederacy apologists are so blinded by their alternate history that they claim the Union was in any way morally inferior to the Confederacy.
Kind of like I stop promoting National Socialism if a thread has too many sincere Nazis posting racist crap. I get that.
There are individual Confederate officers that I might defend sometimes, depending on the context, but the Confederate cause was still evil.
I have immense respect for James Longstreet. Even if he'd been a complete screwup in the war and not one of the more successful Confederate tacticians, the fact that he became The Atoner after the war sealed it. It's fun to watch for people who hate Longstreet for his post-war shift, as they're usually Lost Causers.