At least that's what I presume.
On August 13th, I posted my thoughts on the hateful violence in Charlottesville perpetrated by neo-Nazi, racist, white supremacist, anti-Semitic thugs (who generously refer to themselves as the "alt-right").
http://bustergammons.blogspot.com/2017/08/regarding-charlottesville.html
Although I didn't notice it until yesterday, I received a comment on August 22nd from an unknown reader using the blog name "Desert Male" who shared these charming views on fascism and the Civil War South:
UnknownAugust 22, 2017 at 2:19 AM
These neo Nazis would have never qualified for the WWII German Army or the SS. As perverse as their regime was those recruits were kick ass combatants. These pot bellied neos waving neo swastikas would most likely have ended up in Sonnenstein.The left, apparently with a lot of time to waste don't spend it on reading. Lee was not a slave holder nor a sessionist, met with Lincoln not too log before the outbreak, to discuss Lee leading the Federal Army. While slavery became a major issue it was not why most rebels fought. Most rebels did not even know a slave holder.
Wow. When you begin by complimenting the Nazis for being "kick-ass combatants," you're revealing something about yourself. Sonnenstein? Desert Male sure does know his Nazis!
Sonnenstein was a German castle which became the "National Socialist Killing Institution" -- a euthanasia facility where the Nazis murdered 15,000 mentally disturbed people and POW's.
Don't know what Desert Male has been reading about the Civil War. Alternative facts, I suspect. His second paragraph is hogwash.
- Robert E. Lee did indeed own slaves, both before and well into the war.
- Lee did not favor secession until Virginia voted for it. Then he promptly joined the Confederacy and fought to defeat the Union.
- Lee did not "meet" with Lincoln to "discuss" commanding the Union army. Lincoln did offer it and Lee turned it down, more loyal to Virginia than to the USA.
- Slavery did not "become" an issue, slavery was the issue. It's the reason the south left the Union, as expressed clearly in each state's declaration of secession. The average rebel soldier, not a rich plantation owner but a poor country boy, may not have understood it, but he was most definitely fighting to preserve slavery.
- True, most Southern whites did not "own" slaves, but slavery was pervasive throughout the South, not only on large plantations but on smaller farms, in urban areas, in businesses and in homes. Slaves were often rented out to others by their owners, short-term or long-term. Slave "holders" were everywhere. To claim that most "did not even know a slave holder" is specious.
