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barsquid@lemmy.world 3 months agoI think I’ll take the word of historians over convicted fraud and “2000 Mules” propagandist Dinesh D’Souza.
(Suggested reading: politifact.com/…/did-nazi-platform-echo-democrati…)
Jim Crow was created by regressives. These were previously mostly Dem but after the deliberate Southern Strategy are mostly Repub.
hese were previously mostly Dem but after the deliberate Southern Strategy are mostly Repub. Are? Jim Crow was removed a long time ago and Republicans voted for it 80% vs 61% for the Democrats.
Republicans have always been about equality.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
Jim Crow was just Democratic politics and is still their politics.
Southern Strategy.
Jim Crow was by regressives. The same regressives opposed civil rights. And those same regressives today are in a cult formed around Donald.
Regressives today are still opposed to the civil rights movement.
Lincoln would be appalled to find that the Republicans of today are in fact the regressives he had to fight a war against.
Here is a partial list of racists democrats that voted against the civil rights act of 1964 ( there were alot of dems that voted no and I got lazy)and when they stopped being reps/senators. If the parties switched these guys wouldn’t be representing the racists democrats up to 2010.
George William Andrews 1972 Robert Emmett Jones 1972 Armistead Selden 1968 Wilbur Mills 1976 James Trimble 1966 Robert Sikes 1978 Charles Edward Bennett 1992 Dante Fascell 1992 Paul Rogers 1978 Don Fuqua 1986 Sam Gibbons 1996 George Hagan 1972 Phillip Landrum 1976 Robert Stephens 1976 William Natcher 1994 Joseph Waggonner 1978 Otto Passman 1976 Gillis Long 1986 Jamie Whitten 1994 Lawrence Fountain 1982 David Newton Henderson 1976 Roy Taylor 1976 Joseph Evins 1976 John Patman 1976 Herbert Roberts 1980 Olin Teague 1978 William Poage 1978 James Claude Wright 1989 Robert Byrd 2010 James Eastland 1978 Sam Ervin 1974 Russell B. Long 1987 John L. McClellan 1977 John Jackson Sparkman 1979 John C. Stennis 1989 Herman Talmadge 1981
The parties never switched. That’s just a weird Democrat lie. Democrats use to have slaves and now they use welfare and dividing people into groups as their form of bondage
I’ve never seen a group so focused into turning a portion of who they are into defining themselves. It’s weird as hell
Not at all. Those same people stayed with the democrats. It is not republicans who are trying to classify everyone and put them into groups for different treatment. That’s the racism still alive and well in the democrat party. Biden didn’t want his kids going to a racial jungle.
Trump has never said anything crazy like that.
Yeah, sucks. Around that time, Donald was refusing to rent apartments to black people.
Donald has, in fact, said plenty of crazy racist shit. www.nytimes.com/…/leonhardt-trump-racist.html
You’re utterly incorrect regarding the regressives of today. You can check with any reputable historian if you feel like it.
Or keep your head in the sand and pretend like it is still the 70s and Southern Strategy didn’t happen.
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You’ll never get him to agree, because his entire worldview relies not on facts but on controlling the conversation.
It’s immaterial to him if he is right or not.
Reactionaries are inherently anti-intellectual, because it allows dim dipshits to hold court and have their ideas treated by their fellow regressive peers as the equivalent of that of people who actually know what they’re talking about.
It’s so much easier to “know” things when you can make up whatever bullshit you want or can cite another boot-licker who is also using motivated reasoning and magical thinking.
Do you think he cares that Republicans tried to have a Fascist coup before?
Or that Regan was flooding inner cities with cocaine?
Or that the Civil Rights Act was signed into law by a Democrat?
He doesn’t give a fuck, because all he cares about is projecting the appearance of being correct. The actual facts are irrelevant.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The sooner rational people stop bothering to have civil conversations with the delusional lunatics running this community the better. Just let the 4 idiots and 1 Russian troll get bored of talking to eachother and they’ll eventually leave the platform.
barsquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
100% agree, thinking I’ll deprogram a brainwashing victim with some internet comments would be delusional.
I just don’t want to see anyone sourcing Dinesh as suggested reading without pushback. I don’t want a low information individual to get sucked in by far-right propaganda.
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I wasn’t intending to criticize you, I get it.
Just wanted to add some context.