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** Lincoln was not even so thoroughly anti-slavery; his support, or at least lack of opposition, toward the Corwin Amendment paints the picture of a man whose first and only interest was in the preservation of the Union, with slavery and abolition alike serving as potential means to that end.
** Lincoln also had a chequered history with the Indians, participating in the Trail Of Tears and imposing harsh measures on the Lakota to win support from Midwestern homesteaders in the North.
***It was quite common for abolitionists to be bigots themselves. In a way there is no inconsistency. There is after all a difference between ''not liking'' black (or any other kind of) people and ''wanting them to be slaves.''
* [[Winston Churchill]] was for a time a supporter of eugenics, but considered one of the great heroes of all time by many in America and Europe.
** [[Values Dissonance|Support for eugenics was widespread across the political spectrum during the first half of the 20th century]]. To a lot of people, it was a noble, scientific way of improving the lot of the whole human race rather than just casting moral blame on "subnormals" and "defectives."
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