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Published · transcript-backedKevin Kelly: belief
3 May 2023 Conversations with Tyler Kevin Kelly on Advice, Travel, and Tech
“The last thing, and I have to say this very cautiously — but I have been deciding that I think the Civil War was a mistake. That we should have — we, the Union, should have left the South to secede, if the majority of people who were voting had voted for it, and that the right of the Union to enforce that Union, I think, was a mistake.”
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- Kevin Kelly
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- 3 May 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Last two questions. First, what’s the last thing you’ve changed your mind about? Yes. The last thing, and I have to say this very cautiously — but I have been deciding that I think the Civil War was a mistake. That we should have — we, the Union, should have left the South to secede, if the majority of people who were voting had voted for it, and that the right of the Union to enforce that Union, I think, was a mistake. The number of people that died, the division that it caused, and everything else was wrong, and that it would have been better to have left the South to secede. I recently came to that conclusion. But wouldn’t slavery just have gone on for a very long time?…
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