There may be something in the "Elliott" name which impels the clan to affirm lies; here is Thomas. With deep thoughts on June 19. I was more-profitably employed on that day.
We read here the common The South Was Right! apologetic, which honestly I had thought we'd abandoned a decade or a century ago; but creationists still exist, and in a decade from now we'll still be hearing about THE VAXX!.
I'm on-board with Elliott points #1-4: Lincoln was a politician leading a war, and in war we make compromises. Lincoln wasn't yet ready to free the slaves in Delaware (very close to DC) nor Kentucky (recently neutral). This foreshadows #8 - when DE, KY (with MS and... NJ) opposed Amendment XIII. (NJ looks like a proxy for NYC and Long-guy-land, also.)
It's #5-7 to which I object:
5) Lincoln was racist and thought blacks & whites could never co-exist. He told a group of free blacks who visited the White House [blah blah]
6) Virtually every slave in the U.S. came from slave ship operators based in Northern states. For example, between 1755-1766, Massachusetts imported 23,000 African slaves. After importing slaves was made illegal in 1808, northern states continued importing approx. 40k/yr.
7) The South's leading men morally opposed slavery & believed "the influence of Christianity" would eventually cleanse the south of the institution
On (5), of course the #woke know this and have pulled down Lincoln memorials as a result. Against that, the very-#woke Professor Loewen has pointed out that Lincoln became antiracist over the course of the war, and had architected [if that's a word] some version of "Reconstruction" which programme was later carried out by the Radicals in the late 1860s. "He said things" as a politician in context of a political struggle, after which said struggle ends up shifting, is hardly a "Dunk". Look at Obama's stance on "gay marriage" in 2008.
On (6), the slave-trade had been banned as an international concern, bankrupting the town Salem in Massachusetts IIRC. States like Connecticut and New Jersey also suffered from this ban. The slave-trade then became internal. Virginia had a "buck" system, per Tariq Nasheed; breeding new slaves in-house and selling them downriver. Historians if ethical should not elide an early 1800s situation with the late 1850s.
On (7), two words - "Reactionary Enlightenment". ("Confederate Constitution" would do, as well.) I repeat it is an unethical move to mention anyone prior to 1860; but here, I certainly would not have mentioned Washington, who went to some lengths to chain his escaped slaves back into bondage. "Ona Judge", man. (Reed moar.) Moving to the Unpleasantness: 'twas noted in the Twitter thread that Jefferson Davis believed in the institution as much as did Calhoun, and as Fitzhugh. The CSA had a few thinkers who planned forward to the phasing-out of The Peculiar Institution. I wouldn't have mentioned Lee and Jackson; I would have gone more to Longstreet and (not-a-Christian) Benjamin. But that's if I wanted to help Elliott out, which at this point I really don't.
Blacks know, hereby, that there still exists a market for this tripe among the huwite population. So do reasonably-educated nice white midwits.
That Elliott feels free even now to spout these easily-debunked lies (even where he didn't have to), and that Cernovich will link to the thread... well, that's why #BLM still finds recruits, and suckers. And that is why the non-Right sleeps well at night supporting censorship against the Right.
SAILER 6/21: The facts, as we have them.
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