That meme above appeared on the Facebook page of my Trump Deranged history professor friend. I’m starting to suspect that he’s not just Trump Deranged: I think he genuinely hates the United States of America and has for decades. It wasn’t today’s post…today he’s writing about how the United States knew it didn’t need to drop atom bombs on Japan to win the war, it just nuked all those Japanese citizens to scare the Russians. Between hating his own nation and hating its President, my friend has a lot of material.
Today he writes to introduce the latest Orwellian exercise from his fellow radicals on the left,
“Slaveholders’ Rebellion” has the ring of authenticity about it.
名不正， 則言不順； 言不順， 則事不成
Míng bùzhèng, zé yán bùshùn; yán bùshùn, zé shì bùchéng
“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.” (Analects, XIII.3.5; James Legge, trans.)
He sounds like a professor, doesn’t he? Ironic, since his fellow Leftists who dominate the higher education scene and have poisoned the minds of generations by teaching them the exact reverse of the “truth of things” in so many ways, embrace the tactic of misleading names, especially deceitful names. You know, like “pro-choice” for abortion. “Undocumented workers” for illegal immigrants. “DEI” for anti-male, anti-white discrimination. “President of the United States” for Joe Biden…
My friend’s whitewashing of rhetorical dishonesty was his hand-off to the Facebook post by fellow left-biased historian Eric Gubelman, who, in turn, extols the New York Times essay, “It Wasn’t a Civil War. It Was the Slaveholders’ Rebellion.” It is so, so crucial to the crypto-totalitarian Left to emphasize slavery in all discussions of the United States. The author of the Times propaganda, of course, is young and black: Anthony Conwright also a writer for Mother Jones and The Nation, and you can’t get much more Left than that.
Where to begin? Oh, let’s start with the argument that’s it’s urgently important to stop calling the Civil War the Civil War.
Conwright begins with a wholly irrelevant discourse on how various factions argued over what label to slap on the conflict that fit with a regional narrative and supported demonization of the other side. Yeah, yeah, so what? It’s been called the Civil War for a very long time, and the name is properly descriptive. Conright, I will assume based on his biases, would furiously defend tearing down the statues of Civil War generals and slaveholding Founders. He writes in part,
Ethics Alarms 
“The Axis has been trying to make a one day riot of a bunch of fools and drunks armed with sticks and bear spray the twin of the storming of the Bastille from January 7 on.”
I’m still trying to decide whether the current situation has more in common with the Reign of Terror in France or the Cultural Revolution in China. There are similarities to both.
For now, I’m going with France, mostly to make myself feel better. For one thing, fewer people died there. For another, one of the principal communications organs of the current left is called Jacobin. These dumb fucks are so arrogant and committed that they cheerfully forget what happened to the real Jacobins – and what happened after they were shortened by 12 or 14 inches.,
when I saw this meme, I agreed that War Between the States is most accurate.
but, if we pick Civil War to designate an event that is fine. It may not be accurate, but it is the term we adopted, fine.
my one quibble: Lincoln’s war against the South was not unconstitutional. When they declared independence in 1776, the U.S. said they assumed the rights of other nations including the rights to declare war and conclude peace.
I believe confederate documents said the same thing.
so, even if the South had the right to secede, the Union had the right to re-conquer it.
-Jut