Definition: In this task, you are given a public comment from online platforms. You are expected to classify the comment into two classes: obscene and non-obscene. A comment is obscene if it is considered offensive to the public sense of decency, for example because it too obviously relates to sex or contains language regarded as taboo in polite usage.
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…except of course, the Confederacy was all about racism and slavery from it's inception right up to today.
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You can say you 'studied the American Civil War', 

…but it's obvious you learned very little.
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The Confederacy was founded on the tenets of white supremacy,

Alexander Stevens, vice president of the Confederacy is quoted in documents:

" Our new government's foundations are laid, it's cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man, that slavery - subordination to the superior race - is his natural and normal condition."

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Throughout the war, the protection of slavery had been and remained the central core of the Confederate purpose.

Paul Escott - After Secession - (Baton Rouge - Louisiana University Press 1978- page 254
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The concern for 'states rights' did not motivate secession, in fact, as the war progressed the Confederacy began to deny states rights within their 'new nation'.

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Back to the books, Gerald.

Non-obscene