He refuses to accept the idea that even one of the lowliest privates could have had motivations for fighting other than preserving slavery

Which is funny, because its literally on every record that the leader of the Confederacy, Robert E. Lee, only joined for loyalty and love of his land instead of any true care about slavery. A man who could have had everything in life, signed it away for his passion.

You'd think the kind of Leftist who parrot these kind of points would understand the idea of "I fucking hate my government and what they support does not represent me, but I also hate these other groups even more."