If it makes you feel any better, there's probably still a price on my head where some former classmates are concerned. In US history class my junior year of high school, I made the mistake of saying I agreed, in part, with the South when we started discussing the Civil War. I didn't say I agreed with slavery, but I said I agreed with secession, to a point. Oh boy. My classmates were all over me in an instant, calling me racist, accusing me of being pro-slavery, and the occasional "white supremacist/Nazi" accusation. I countered by saying that Robert E. Lee had a choice whether to serve with the North or the South, and he chose to serve the South, even though he didn't agree with slavery. Nobody understood it, which makes me wonder how the hell they passed the class.
(Ironically, gun legislation is one of the areas where the concept of states rights has backfired in current times...)
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Date: 2008-08-07 09:46 pm (UTC)(Ironically, gun legislation is one of the areas where the concept of states rights has backfired in current times...)
*hands over tea*