The Democratic National Committee is hiring IT people for these positions:
The Daily Wire, a conservative blog, posted an e-mail purportedly from Madeleine Leader, the DNC's Data Services Manager, showing her announcing the openings and writing
I personally would prefer that you not forward to cisgender straight while males, since they're already in the majority.
The Daily Wire blogger posted a different screenshot of the e-mail on Twitter.
Also at The Hill
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday November 02 2017, @06:43PM (5 children)
Sometimes the truth hurts. It isn't a question on whether or not allowing slavery to continue would have maintained the status quo longer, the question is whether it was preferable to have a war if and end to slavery was part of the victory. I don't recall Kelly saying that we should have allowed slavery to continue in exchange for not having a war, he just said that had we then the war would have been postponed.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Thursday November 02 2017, @07:19PM (3 children)
Why postponed and not avoided entirely? I think there's some historical nuances I'm missing here.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @07:29PM (2 children)
The war was about states rights not slavery. The states rights issue was related to slavery, but slavery wasn't the direct cause of the war. Eventually there may have been a states rights issue and the war would have been then.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday November 02 2017, @07:57PM (1 child)
The issue was about slavery. No matter what, the whole problem and division would have come up again. And again. For as long as slavery continued to exist. Or until we decided that slavery was really and truly acceptable. God forbid.
There may be other states rights issues unrelated to slavery. But I think mostly, states rights, were a rationalization for slavery, IMO. I could be wrong. But slavery was a huge economic issue -- on the backs of the slaves whose lives were ruined by capturing and enslaving them. It would be only fair to brutally enslave everyone who supports such action.
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(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday November 02 2017, @08:09PM
There were some problems regarding tariffs. High tariffs protected the north and low protected the south (might be backwards). There had been conflicts between the states leading up to the civil war over this. Ultimately it was the slavery issue that caused the first batch of states to leave, although Virginia only decided to leave when Lincoln told them to raise three militias and send them south to quell the rebellion. Virginia's house leaned on the union side even after the first batch left, being told to raise troops against their fellow man is what drove them over the edge.
I would argue that for the deep south the issue was slavery, but for the middle states it was more about their soverignty. Maryland had desired to leave along with virginia but there were already federal troops occupying them. Whenever I think about the civil war I think of virginia's fight for soverignty. Until now I didnt realize most others think im talking Georgia or Alabama.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @07:39PM
https://www.salon.com/2017/10/31/john-kelly-calls-robert-e-lee-honorable-and-ta-nehisi-coates-schools-him/ [salon.com]