The presidentā€™s speech at a South Carolina church did not go over well with the GOP candidate.

Joe Biden gave a speech in South Carolina on Monday, and Nikki Haley isnā€™t happy about it. Specifically, sheā€™s not happy about the part where the president called her out for her extremely cringeworthy comments about the Civil War, saying, ā€œLet me be clear, for those who donā€™t seem to know: Slavery was the cause of the Civil War.ā€

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The issue of the Civil Warā€”and her commentary on itā€”has come up for Haley in the past. While running for governor of South Carolina in 2010, she described the war as a matter of two sides fighting over ā€œtraditionā€ and ā€œchange,ā€ adding that the Confederate flag was ā€œnot something that is racist.ā€ She also claimed there was no reason to take the flag down from the statehouse grounds (until five years later, after the mass shooting at the Charleston church). After Haleyā€™s gaffe in December, Jaime Harrison, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, said that her failure to mention slavery was ā€œnot stunning if you were a Black resident in SC when she was Governor.ā€

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    she described the war as a matter of two sides fighting over ā€œtraditionā€ and ā€œchange,ā€

    Yeah, the south was fighting to keep their tradition of owning slaves, and the north fought to change that tradition.

    It amazes me how hard rightoids work to not acknowledge the plain as day fact from the documents detailing statesā€™ secession documents and the constitution of the confederacy.

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        You ainā€™t wrong, but at the same time, if we define ā€œtraditionā€ as ā€œdoing certain things certain ways because weā€™ve always done those things those ways, and we donā€™t want to changeā€, then I guess theyā€™re not wrong eitherā€¦but by the same rationale, that same social inertia is also the reason we have climate science deniers, racists, homophobes, misogynists, xenophobes, and bigots of all other shapes and sizes. Basically: theyā€™re used to it being accepted to do things we now know to be problematic, and rather than change, theyā€™d simply rather not changeā€¦for no better reason than not changing means continuing to do things the way theyā€™ve always done them.