This question is a reference to these lemmy users who were insulting all russians in the “expulsion of russian maintainers” thread because according to them the majority back putin.

  • Billiam@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Alternatively, hundreds of thousands of Americans died because they thought owning other human beings was morally wrong.

    • MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Silver lining I guess. But it was more to save the preservation of the Union, there were still slave states in the Union during the Civil War. And non-blacks still thought they were superior to blacks even if they didn’t believe in slavery, and that was the majority opinion long after the Civil war too.