# Sealioning **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 16, 2019, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sealioning/841837 "2019-10-16T10:36:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 255
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sealioning/841837/255 "2019-10-20T15:04:48Z")
Here’s a great example. In a thread about how the South had managed to rewrite the Civil War with the Lost Cause narrative, Rio Rico asks, “why do we let the losers write history”, clearly meaning, “why did we let the losers of the Civil War set the tone for how we view the North and South?”. One mighty walrus pops into the thread with this gem: > [@Is the Confederacy/South more interesting than the Union/North?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-confederacy-south-more-interesting-than-the-union-north/841643/148): > > Great Britain wrote history after losing the war another group of slave owning traitors started. Who was going to stop them? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sealioning/841837)._