Happy slander Lincoln and the descendants of
the other regular folks who got killed ending slavery - day.
Happy victim politic founder birthday instead.
Happy victim politic founder birthday instead.
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SparkleLeaf · 51-55, T
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SparkleLeaf · 51-55, T
@SteelHands So much to unpack here. I'll just touch on a few things.
Anyone who has ever talked with people can recognize that racism is alive and well even today. In MLK's time, African Americans were still being denied even the right to vote in many places, and actively discriminated against in the job market. We have made great strides toward true equality since then. "Karenism" is a reaction to that -- some white women feeling threatened by the fact that they are not necessarily treated better than black people by default.
In Lincoln's time, both major parties were set up in part to reinforce the systemic racism of the time, IE slavery. The Republican Party came out as a third party, in part, to challenge this. They were the left-wing radicals of their day. The Whig Party later went by the wayside, leaving us the Democrats and the Republicans.
100 years later, there were still a lot of old school, or "southern," Democrats. 100 years of change had not removed that element from the party. Both parties had been in a state of change, the Republicans becoming the party of the upper class and the Democrats gradually coming into the twentieth century. Even with that being the case, the Civil Rights Act was a bipartisan bill, with an ample majority of both parties voting for it. It is technically true that a larger percentage of Republicans voted for it than Democrats.
The racists within the Democratic Party were so incensed by this that most of them left and joined a third party colloquially known as the Dixiecrat Party, their official name being The States' Rights Democratic Party. Prominent Dixiecrats like Strom Thurmond would later join the Republican party.
Some like to paint both major parties as monoliths, the Republicans as being for racism and segregation and the Democrats being the antithesis of that. Such simplistic thinking is laughably cartoonish and patently false. But to suggest that nearly the exact opposite is true is even worse. The truth is more nuanced, with good and bad on both sides of the aisle. If you look hard enough I'm sure you can find Democrats who are bigoted against minorities and repressed groups. You don't have to try nearly as hard to find the same thing on the other side.
Anyone who has ever talked with people can recognize that racism is alive and well even today. In MLK's time, African Americans were still being denied even the right to vote in many places, and actively discriminated against in the job market. We have made great strides toward true equality since then. "Karenism" is a reaction to that -- some white women feeling threatened by the fact that they are not necessarily treated better than black people by default.
In Lincoln's time, both major parties were set up in part to reinforce the systemic racism of the time, IE slavery. The Republican Party came out as a third party, in part, to challenge this. They were the left-wing radicals of their day. The Whig Party later went by the wayside, leaving us the Democrats and the Republicans.
100 years later, there were still a lot of old school, or "southern," Democrats. 100 years of change had not removed that element from the party. Both parties had been in a state of change, the Republicans becoming the party of the upper class and the Democrats gradually coming into the twentieth century. Even with that being the case, the Civil Rights Act was a bipartisan bill, with an ample majority of both parties voting for it. It is technically true that a larger percentage of Republicans voted for it than Democrats.
The racists within the Democratic Party were so incensed by this that most of them left and joined a third party colloquially known as the Dixiecrat Party, their official name being The States' Rights Democratic Party. Prominent Dixiecrats like Strom Thurmond would later join the Republican party.
Some like to paint both major parties as monoliths, the Republicans as being for racism and segregation and the Democrats being the antithesis of that. Such simplistic thinking is laughably cartoonish and patently false. But to suggest that nearly the exact opposite is true is even worse. The truth is more nuanced, with good and bad on both sides of the aisle. If you look hard enough I'm sure you can find Democrats who are bigoted against minorities and repressed groups. You don't have to try nearly as hard to find the same thing on the other side.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
@SparkleLeaf Sorry to hear all you have to go on are creepy people all around you.
It's never been like that for me whether I lived in predominantly black, predominantly white, or predominantly mixed parts of town.
That's probably why you believe all that stuff and I'm not a subscriber.
It's never been like that for me whether I lived in predominantly black, predominantly white, or predominantly mixed parts of town.
That's probably why you believe all that stuff and I'm not a subscriber.
SteelHands · 61-69, M
8 eyes see nobody even disagree?