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Blocking Other Authors For Intellectual Disagreement Is Weak
Why it is weak, and intellectually dishonest to block someone who has a different view than you do.
A while back I wrote an article called, “Quit Calling Confederates Traitors,” and was blocked by another author I reached out to for a review. The premise of this article is while there is no doubt the Confederacy were white supremacist and fought to keep their slaves, the Northern side and the Federal government did not have any better track record of human rights with regards to white supremacy unless you want to debate degree. It was not clear whether leaving the Constitution as early Americans left the Articles of Confederation with its perpetual union clause was illegal, so traitor is historically the wrong word. The Confederacy only lasted four years, but slavery went on under both the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution longer, and the plight of former slaves did not end with the defeat of the Confederacy.
After the Civil War, life for former slaves, Native Americans, women, child labor, Asian Immigrants, and LGBTQ did not begin to improve for over a hundred years, because all of America was founded on white supremacy, not just the Southern states. The Federal government on the whole did not fight to free anyone, they fought to…
