A Weird IM Conversation By Two Anonymous Dorks

3:31 PM
If you get a chance, there's a docmumentary on the border war that's been running on metrosports
it's like 2 hours long and covers the civil war history, the two schools, etc. its awesome

sounds awesome. not sure they could tell much more than what I already know.

The best part about is the stories and opinions from both sides.

yeah

it makes a good point of showing that neither side is right or wrong
they also get into the 1960 football game controversy, which is always interesting.

Yeah, except slaves are wrong.

Well, they were actually a "neutral" state. But a lot of the people who made the history had more southern ideals. They even get into how Quantrill was a jayhawker before he became famous for being a missourian

awwwwwe revisionist history. Tell that to the confederate troops that fought for the confederacy and the kansas troops that fought for the union.
I reenacted under the 8th Kansas.

Ya. But I think that the Missourians hate being associated with slavery, when very few people had them (compared to say, Alabama).
And there were also slaves in Kansas too. But we fought on the Union side. So we get the more positive reputation

That's like saying I had nothing to do with the holocaust because we had only one extermination camp in our area. Your still fighting on the side with the wrong ideals. right?

Ya. But I always felt the whole "slave" argument was lame. Especially since it was everywhere in the U.S. at that time.
Here's the site for that documentary: http://www.borderwarrivalry.com/
I'm not sure when it will be on again

succession came from the idea that slave labor was going to get abolished.

3:40 PM
Slaves in the south were not treated the same as slaves in the north

"Yeah, except slaves are wrong."

yep. and the south relied more heavily on them. so the north was willing to get rid of that idea of slavery but south "economically" had a harder time giving it up.
I understand both sides but damn, people needed to make a change and some chose to make that change and some chose to fight against it.

Ya. The weird thing about the whole Border War and the conflicts really had very little to do with slavery at all. It all veiled behind that, but it's not really the big reason. As Eddie Izzard said, "We just hate the people right next to us."

It all started when jethro lit some dog poop on Jebadiah's front porch.
lets go grab some sharp objects and settle this out in the parking lot.

Pretty much. Kansans burning down Osceola, and Missourians burning down Lawrence weren't thinking about equality when that happened. They were thinking, "FUCK THESE GUYS. WE'RE TOTALLY GONNA GET LAID WHEN WE GET HOME."

yep. and those confederate bitches got laid by their wives, slaves and farm animals. haha!