Is it possible that San is the ghost of Ignatius J. Reilly?

Just a note for all you guys who are saying Hitchens is a Brit: he's actually a dual US/British citizen, so he has every right to talk about the US as one of its people.

San, perhaps you should develop a basic understanding of libel law before you begin threatening over the internet to bring suit.

you know, on this one issue i'm kind of with you except for your weird ad hominem attacks.

i notice that this particular post is San free.

nicely done.

San:

Seeing as how slaves were freed and black men were allowed to vote before women, and before those aged 18-21, you have no point.

Hey, those other mistakes do pile up and hide the whole slavely thing!

I wish Slate would put that as a header on comment sections:

"This is a San-Free Thread"

I used to post on here a couple years ago, and was really impressed on how much thought people put into their posts. I actually learned more in the comments in some cases than from the articles themselves. Then I noticed one person in particular who always called other posters liars and retards until he entirely took over the conversation got the last post in.

If someone has been posting as San as a joke, I give them a lot of credit for creating an awesomely annoying character.

" so he has every right to talk about the US as one of its people."

Not even close.

He has no idea about what it means to be a citizen. He doesn't have our history.

He is a preachy foreigner.

"San, perhaps you should develop a basic understanding of libel law before you begin threatening over the internet to bring suit."

To claim that I supported slavery was outright libel.

Its that simple.

"If someone has been posting as San as a joke, I give them a lot of credit for creating an awesomely annoying character."

Seeing as how I have been here for over 6 years now, you are just an idiotic troll who can't post on topic.

San:

"If someone has been posting as San as a joke, I give them a lot of credit for creating an awesomely annoying character."

Seeing as how I have been here for over 6 years now, you are just an idiotic troll who can't post on topic.

POT. KETTLE. BLACK.

You have to be insane.

Why?

Because you claim it was over racism then state this:

"The south wanted low tariffs because it had chosen to put it's full production capacity into growing cash crops to sell and using said revenues to buy its necessities. The institution that enabled that choice: slavery."

Wow.

Those tariffs were monopolies put in place for the Northern Industrial complex that wanted to keep the South from attaining cheaper goods from Europe.

THAT is why the Civil War happened. Not over slavery.

"Ah yes, those white liberal negro-lynchers. I can't tell you how many times my mother scared us kids into submission with true tales of Volvos tearing through black New England townships,"

Hey dumbass, there were lots of killings of black people in New England, and many lynches of Black people in Canada.

Where did I say that the Civil War was over racism?

You are an illiterate idiot.

I stated that you were an idiot for saying it was over racism, which you made blatantly clear when you stated: "The Civil War (and, hence, the Confederacy) was most definitely about slavery, though."

If you think that the two are separate accusations, then you really don't belong here.