Bravo

Do you think it would eventually involve Patton racing to Prague?

Which is a very good point. If there wasn't an upper south to consistently provide slaves to the deep south; it would have seriously undermined the slave economy.

Yep.

And keeping his children as slaves...

That's a good one.

Well on said plantation you had a relatively low chance of being publicly whipped in a given year (that was the actual insane argument)

Honestly its like a far more racist and reactionary American Brexit. They want their cultural revolution, pogroms, and ethnic cleansing and don't care if it means the US loses its superpower status in the process.

Rapists. But not every founding father was a slaveowners and most of the slaveowners had the honesty to see slavery as being "bad" they just incorrectly hoped it would die off naturally.

I don't think you work.

So you are not a scientist then? Any gainful employment or are you just NEET?

But you are such a great scientist! Enlighten us all with your success and wisdom!

Oh they knew they were bad and wrote extensively about it. It means they were hypocrites. How did you add anything of insight value to my statement?

Awww I hit a nerve.

So nice of you to tell on yourself. Have a wonderful evening for you and yours. ; )

Scientist eh, and so well spoken I bet you have a warm inner life.

I figured that would be a sop to the poor white underclass to help them become invested in the destruction of the planter class and culture.

I mean I'm sorry you are ignorant. But not every founder was plantation owner, slavery was widely seen as an evil, and slaveowners often mulled their own hypocrisy.

I had to read an absurd 1970's history of slavery in college that attempted to argue that it was economically rational using econometrics on a plantation's records. It argued that whippings were rare because on average there was only a little more than one per week so...

You seem charming.

Well the Founders had mixed feelings about the hypocrisy of slavery and honestly believed that the practice would die out over time. Then the cotton gin was invented...

Yep. Their land should have been seized with a large tranche distributed to former slaves, another tranche sold at auction, and a final tranche sold to finance the creation of a land-grant university system.

Abasalom Abasalom is honestly Faulkner's masterpiece for its depiction of this.

I mean this exact situation was basically a joke in the 1936 classic "My Man Godfrey".

Bingo.

There where also his really homoerotic descriptions of Hungary included "Just a bunch of dudes slurping pig knuckles and drinking beer"

Congratulations!

You could also blame it on the actions of an ethnic minority

I'm an adult who hasn't gotten a lego set since I was 12 but *this* is awakening that childhood sense of wonder.

Clearly an important part of a unified white western tradition