Comment on YSK that in several US States, it's illegal to boycott Israel
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoanytime the new deal is brought up
The Pre-Nixon Era was defined by more than just the New Deal and the Great Society.
to accelerate the decline mistakenly believing something better would replace it
Understanding history is very different from advocating for “accelerationism”
hector@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Yet you do not indulge my question, give me one example that cannot be dismissed with your logic dismissing the new deal?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Emancipation
hector@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Lincoln did not even want emancipation at first, and grant was corrupt and let his admin loot the government, then abandoned reconstruction to jim crow in a deal to get to keep the 1876 election they stole from tillman for hayes.
That republican party? Hardly.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lincoln campaigned at the head of an abolitionist party on the platform of halting slavery expansion in the territories and gradually phasing it out nationwide.
After the civil war broke out, he saw rapid emancipation as a means of collapsing Confederate resistance. And in the immediate aftermath of the war, he was a full throated supporter of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
What you’re saying is categorically untrue.