Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings?
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 16 hours agoHighly context dependent, I guess, but the South seceded just because Lincoln was elected, even though he explicitly said he wasn’t going to end slavery, so enough people must have been talking about it to spook the slavers.
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Eq0@literature.cafe 16 hours ago
Yeah, in that context it would make sense, I’m mostly talking about media where it’s just dropped in to show the good morals of the character, while having no consequences of meaning outside of that
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Yeah, but that’s kind of just how people are. I bitch about stuff all the time, but I don’t do shit about it.
The type of person who would go to Kansas or Spain are always in the minority.