Historical BS

[SaskGriz]

Someone in one of the football posts about thanking service personal mentioned the US civil war jokingly and this has always struck me;

You ever stop to think that US is the only industrialised country in the world that had to fight a civil war over whether buying/selling human beings was cool or not? Every other country just sort of bitched and moaned but then went "yeah fair enough, you can't own people". Not the US though, had to lose 750,000 dead to sort that one out.

 

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A Canadian commenting on ANYTHING American ain't 'cool.'

 

[CrunchGriz]

I don't know, having the perspective of someone outside the US is kind of telling; it's sometimes hard to see yourself clearly, but from a distance things may come into focus a bit better.

And what, exactly, did Sask say in that post that isn't true? (and heartbreakingly sad, by the way?)