One of the best arguments that can be made on this matter by John Mosby, leader of Mosby's Raiders during the Civil War. He was never defeated in battle (or so I've read) and was still free at the end of the war. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/histo...onfederate-officer-slavery-and-civil-war-1907
"The flag stands for Southern pride, not prejudice!" Okay, pride in what?? Pride in losing a war of insurrection against your country in the name of preserving slavery?
Interesting to see @Federal Farmer 's slide into full blown white supremacist Hopefully it's just a shitty teenage phase
You don't pay much attention do you? A) I've been off of probation since March, B) I've never attended a Klan rally, you lose.
There was no native agriculture in California so population densities were quite small to begin with plus a century or two of contact with Spanish colonialism meant old world disease had wiped out upwords of 90% of the native population prior to the first Americans even getting here. Your false equivalency is just false. The Confederates were still shit stains though.
You appear to regard violent defenders of slavery and white supremacy with a special sort of empathy that you fail to extend to pretty much everyone else?
Is my empathy for these Nazi thugs or do I share the belief that Confederate monuments should not be taken down? Can you answer that? Can you answer this, are all people who don't think Confederate monuments should be taken down racist Nazi's? When you can successfully answer those two questions, then you will know whether or not I'm a white supremacist.
Population density is irrelevant; genocide is genocide. The peak native population in California was around 300,000 before Europeans arrived. While you are correct about Spanish colonialism and disease contributing to the reduction in population, the fact remains that after California joined the US, the native population dropped by another ~90% in the first 50 years of statehood. Around 1850, the native population in California was roughly 150,000. By 1900, it was 16,000. Throughout that time, there were intentional efforts to enslave, relocate, and kill natives. Source: http://www.pbs.org/indiancountry/history/calif.html And an interesting quote:
If you are so sure I'm a white supremacist, it shouldn't be hard to prove your claim and post evidence.
Dude, you've literally spent the past 48hrs frantically stumbling over yourself to make excuses for these white supremacists, getting all emotional and creating juvenile, nonsensical threads about taking down monuments which you think helps prove the point of these protesters before finally doubling down with the "the Civil War wasn't about slavery" thread which just about every American slavery apologist known to man says. Disgraceful.