Lol, could you at least give the post number?
Sure; absolutely:
I did not make a claim that anyone is co-opting the meaning of the Civil War.
I am saying that a handful of quotes from people with an agenda at the time proves nothing other than that a few people had an agenda.
The Confederacies laws on slavery prove nothing regarding racism when not all slaves were black and not all slave owners were white.
You are conflating two different issues.
1. A person can think his race is superior to another without hating the other race. Lincoln thought that whites were superior to blacks and he certainly did not hate blacks as a race.
2. No subsistence farmer in the South ever thought he was going to own a slave. That is like saying that a mimimum wage fry cook has dreams about owning a Bentley. No, it does not happen, lol.
3. Heterosis is good for breeding and that was known then as well, so that was all slave owner rationale for keeping the races separated and had little basis in reality.
4. None of those posts addressed my specific points that Lincoln was willing to protect slavery by law and amendment, the South had large populations and famous leaders that opposed secession, but that negates the "slavery caused it" argument as, according to you, they all dreamed of one day owning a slave even if they didnt own one at the time.
5. None of those posts address why the South seceded in three different group, triggered by different events; A) Lincolns election without carrying a single Southern state, B) Texas leaving after the passage of the Morill Tariff, and C) Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina leaving only after Lincoln took up extra-Constitutional powers by ordering the states to call up their militias to invade the Southern states.
6. None of these posts address why the North tolerated slavery all the way through the Civil War if that war was SOLELY about slavery, nor why Lincoln waited for two years to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
The only thing that answers these questions that THE CIVIL WAR WAS NOT JUST ABOUT SLAVERY!
IT, like all reality, was produced by a set of complex factors and reasons, all of which differed from one individual to the next.