Because what the work tries to achieve is a realistic restoration of history, film critics are inevitably entangled with the history of the Civil War. Judging from the content of the film, history is not as described in the textbooks of the celestial dynasty - the liberation of black slaves is a matter of course, and Lincoln was just lucky to be the president of the United States at a lucky time. It is undeniable that the times create heroes, but the combat effectiveness of heroes varies. Lincoln may have accelerated the abolition of slavery in America by at least 30 years. According to the weakness of human nature, it is not difficult to speculate that the mentality of most northern people is like the couple in the film. They support the abolition movement morally, but the premise is not to be by their side, and it should conflict with their own interests , it will shake. Those pure minority, like Stevens, are called "activism." When people have suffered from the cruelty of war for a long time, who will be more attractive for peace and "other's" equality? This is not even clear within the Republican Party. It was Lincoln who used the eloquence he had developed as a lawyer to coax, to reconcile, to reconcile, and to unite the Republican Party. It is not easy to use tough political tactics in a democratic and legal country, and it is not easy for a person who believes deeply in democracy and justice to seek bribes, deceit, win over and other means to win approval votes. Looking at it, imagining Lincoln's devastated appearance every day under the pincers from left and right, I actually thought that being assassinated might be a relief for him.
If public opinion can be transformed into a beast, a torrent of thousands of miles, then the selfish nature of man is the solid dam of the reservoir, and what Lincoln represents is the power to destroy the dam. Don't you see, in a certain feudal country, apart from the dictators and the army, no one believes in their "emperor's new clothes" like brainwashing and preaching, but the rule that goes against the historical trend is still standing!
The above is not the point of my discussion. It is very fashionable now to discover the shortcomings and dark sides of some "real and fake great people", to prove that all people are equally ugly, and then to accept the injustice and all kinds of ugliness in real life with peace of mind. Lincoln was also not spared, as far as the author of "Alternative American History", as far as the bean friends downstairs, all liked to use the following paragraph to prove that Lincoln was actually a racist and a white supremacist:
"I would like to say, I do not and have not in any way promoted the social and political equality of blacks and whites. I do not and have not been for blacks to vote and serve on jurors, to hold office, to share white intermarriage; in addition to that, I would like to say that there is a physical difference between whites and blacks that I believe will forever prohibit the two races from living together under conditions of social and political equality Just because they can not so live, while they and we are still together, certainly not on the merits of a standing, me and others is also in favor of the superior position assigned to the white people. "
opposed to this assertion There are four reasons:
First of all, Lincoln was a political figure, and there must be compromises and repetitions in political activities. And this paragraph is the political language when he debated with Douglas of the Democratic Party, and was used to solicit votes. It may even be a product of the collective wisdom and strategy of the Republican Party that does not necessarily represent Lincoln's true heart or long-term goals. Notice no, in the whole paragraph, Lincoln's words are "now", "past", and he did not mention what his "future" will be. From Lincoln's stepmother's education on him, preventing Indian prisoners from being killed, visiting the wounded, etc., it can be seen that Lincoln was an upright, kind and noble person, and because of his great personality, he was supported and praised by the general public. love.
2. In the debate, Lincoln did not say so, should it be said that "black people should have the same political and social rights as white people"? In that case, even if he didn't say it, the Democrats would make the same inference: One day, a black man can be a congressman, a senator, a secretary of state, and even the president! At the time, only a few radicals could accept that the Republican Party would lose the presidential race. The progress and change of society is not achieved overnight. If you take a big step, you will have to pull the egg.
Three really important and overlooked points are: under the historical conditions at the time, to the white American citizens, blacks were just a group of "snatched aliens" who had not yet evolved into part of the American nation. Suppose you kidnapped a person and later found out your conscience gave him freedom. Do you want him to go back, or do you want him to share a house of more than 70 square meters and become a member of your family? "Foreigners" have the same political and social status as citizens of their own country, and even the Chinese government dare not say so. Will the white people who used to be "anti-customer-oriented" be afraid of repeating the mistakes of the Indians?
Four Lincoln's job is the president of the United States, not the king of the United States, nor a superman who can single-mindedly maintain justice and peace. The president's job was to safeguard the interests of American citizens (who were only white at the time), and American citizens included both ordinary people and big capitalists. The people needed relief from their conscience, and the factory owners craved a lot of cheap labor, so Lincoln had to run around for it. With this general direction, he can only infiltrate his own values and wishes into these political and military actions and try to find a point of convergence.
The general trend is that public opinion is the railroad track, and Lincoln is just a locomotive. He leads the American train, avoids falling apart after derailment, avoids fork in the road, avoids more twists and turns, reduces the bumps on the road, and allows the train to reach its destination safely. reached the end of his great life. . .
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