Identity politics...

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I admit that was pretty hard to follow...but it kind of seems that you are encouraging an us vs. them mentality between aspies and NTs. If that is correct than I don't agree with that attitude.

I would not bother to continue this dialouge with John Powell. This isn't the first thread he's posted very simplified or even false trolling comments just to inflame the thread and get people to argue with him. So probably not worth the effort...he's just going to keep repeating that Lincoln was a white supremacist and dismissing any facts you present. But if its entertaining to you, than by all means.

Lincoln was a saint compared to Andrew Jackson, a portrait of whom hangs in the oval office.

I'm just afraid if I don't answer, it will be regarded as an act of submission.

Not to mention comparing Lincoln to his Confederate counterpart, Jefferson Davis, who was hardly Lincoln's moral or intellectual equal.

Yes, I am a complex thinker...

I am not saying: Hate non-autistics...

Here is the distinction I am making:
-Don't be browbeaten into subservience by neurotypicals who lack enlightenment of autism...
(Many think "autism" is a metal illness rather than a syndrome, as an example...)
-Understand that as autistics, we are entitled to self-actualisation like anyone else...
-Understand that generally adopting NT social protocols is just that...
It is not a community system which is inherently sympathetic to those on the spectrum...
Colloquially/to-use-an-idiom: "Take NT social protocols/expectations with a grain of salt..."
-Don't be seduced by the adage: You "must eat shite...a million flies can't be wrong..."
Group-think is a collective delusional state of mind which suppresses individuality and involves/induces a dissociated/hypnotic-state-of-mind and a slave mentality...
If you, an autistic individual, think there is something not right about a generally accepted NT social attitude/opinion, it would be unwise to automatically accept their premise...
Autistic individuals will never and can never inherently think the same as NTs...
Autistics simply have inherently different social/moral/life priorities not by choice, but through a genetic predisposition...
"Read my lips": We are different, not wrong...

As an aside, I marvelled at how the philosophy of Nietzsche ignored the psychological differences of those who were not neurotypical...
While many of his ideas are very relevant in a neurotypical context, there are significant segments which are irrelevant to autistics and other non-NTs...<shrug>

In conclusion:

While wombats and neurotypicals have many similarities, they are axiomatically different and it would be a nonsense to expect a wombat to wear a suit and tie and commute to Wall St...
While I am not equating autistics with wombats, I hope my point is made/taken...

I am not advocating a closed mind, black and white mentality...
I am simply stating the bleeding obvious and refuse to sacrifice the reality of my own existence to the deluded consciousness of others.

My advocacy is to acknowledge and accept our differences but not allow NT ignorance, intimidation, thuggery and buggery to corrupt our inherent nature, values and potential self-actualisation...

Clear as mud?

I appreciate your comment...
The OP might be feeling a little annoyed that his/her thread is being hijacked when his/her intention was to nut out some important aspect of his/her life...

Well No, it's just not been made into a Hollywood fairy tale by a known liar. Bad? Genocide is just bad? Negotiations could have been made with states rather than starting a trade war with them. Lol. Yeah genocide didn't seem to matter though when it came to 'unity'. And then the US just had the Chinese as basic slaves anyway. Slavery of Africans could have been abolished without war.

If you mean Spielberg, he didn't write the history on Lincoln, he based his movie on the work of legitimate historians.
Lincoln was not solely responsible for the genocide of Native Americans.
Chinese labor were not slaves by any definition. Yes, they suffered under racily draconian laws and violence here in America, then were denied the right to stay in the country due to the Chinese Exclusion Act. That said, they were still paid a wage for their work, while slaves were forced to perform labor. And despite blatantly racist law, plenty of Chinese remained in America and became Americans.

He doesn't do facts.
I know he wasn't but he played a major part.
Still treated like dirt. Well Africans stayed too and became Americans.

Regardless if Spielberg does facts or not, his sources were correct.
Of course the Chinese were treated like dirt, I never said they weren't.
African slaves became Americans - - thanks to Lincoln.
It was impossible to free the slaves peacefully, because the slave owning states had chosen to secede and fired the first shot, rather than the north being the aggressors. Also, in the Confederate constitution, it was an illegal act to end slavery, meaning that the Confederacy would have continued as a backward, slave owning society. Worse, the Confederacy, after winning independence from the United States, had had imperialistic ambitions of invading and colonizing Latin America, and setting up plantations run on slave labor there. A vast, slave owning civilization would have existed late in the history of the western hemisphere.

If he'd had his way they'd have been deported. You're starting the story in the middle again. The Union started it via a trade war. Lol yeah cause the US before and after has/had never colonized. Na, that's just gibberish.

Again, Lincoln in the final speech of his life spoke of giving freed blacks full citizenship. He came to realize after talking to blacks in the north that they had established lives in America, and that they just couldn't be uprooted.
I thought you and Trump approved of trade wars.
I will remind you that your country has been the biggest colonizer on earth.

And what is your logic?

Maybe he did take that stance, but it had nothing to do with caring about black people.
When I ever spoke on favour of trade wars?
I haven't denied that.

How do you know he didn't care about blacks? The things he wrote, and his personal relationships with black abolitionists like Frederick Douglass says he did.