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He gathered a small band of antislavery men who in the middle of the night dragged five proslavery settlers from their cabins and hacked them to death.

Chef’s kiss

Edit: The Dollop did a three parter about John Brown and have a lot better takes on the man part 1 part 2 part 3

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This was retribution for murders against abolitionists. Every act of violence John Brown did was a reaction to provocative violence from the slaveholding class.

Edit: not saying this to correct you, but to justify/defend his actions

Edit 2: Potawatamie is fun to say, I’m glad he killed people there so I get to say that word more often and because they deserved killing

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:thonk: Well I’m convinced, chapo.chat should ban discussion of violence against slaveowners!

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Brown concluded that violence justified violence

Yeah what of it

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Right, like these nerds come to the same exact conclusion when it comes to a capitalist state versus protestors demanding “defund the police”, but their blinders are on too tight to even realize that a state is a monopolization on violence. Feckless bastards

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Holy fuck are they blaming Brown for the civil war? Really? And they lay the death toll at his feet? No considerations for how the alternative was to let slavery happen, instead we should weep over the people who benefitted from said slavery? Fuck this writer

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Material conditions? What’s that? It’s all one man’s fault!

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And they lay the death toll at his feet?

This columnist has a bright future ahead in the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation

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they blaming Brown for the civil war?

Good.

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The Problem with Looking For Lessons in the John Brown story is that his K:D ratio wasn’t high enough

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Give John Brown an AC-130

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