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    longly replied to the thread Is there anyone here who agrees with my theory?.
    Well, I know that “Neanderthal” comes from a place in Germany, but one name is as good as another. It’s not the name that really...
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    longly replied to the thread While They Tell Their Base About Somalis.
    Am I wrong to question the loyalty of some members of the Islamic community in America, including Somalis and others, during our...
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    longly replied to the thread While They Tell Their Base About Somalis.
    I understand Johnson was known for stealing elections. There’s a story that one night, while they were checking gravestones to register...
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    longly replied to the thread While They Tell Their Base About Somalis.
    In recent history, only two presidents have failed to make money while in office: Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump. Trump lost money.
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    longly replied to the thread Are you ashamed of your heritage?.
    Sherman’s strategy on his March to the Sea would today be viewed as a war crime. He destroyed all transportation and treated farms and...
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    longly replied to the thread Are you ashamed of your heritage?.
    By the time I came along, they were no longer a Serious danger to freedom. If they had been, my attitude towards them would have been...
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    longly replied to the thread Are you ashamed of your heritage?.
    As I said before, slavery is evil. Slavery is evil in all of its forms. That’s why I opposed communism. That’s why I opposed drug...
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    longly replied to the thread Are you ashamed of your heritage?.
    "Presentism is the fallacy of interpreting or evaluating the past by modern values, standards, or worldviews. It assumes that people in...
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    longly replied to the thread Are you ashamed of your heritage?.
    Of course not. I have a modest perspective. I have a better understanding than my ancestors had, but that doesn’t mean they were evil.
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    longly replied to the thread Are you ashamed of your heritage?.
    You lucky dog! You could keep the others—English and biology—but teaching history would be a dream job. Still, it’s probably a good idea...
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    longly replied to the thread Are you ashamed of your heritage?.
    If you're a teacher, what do you teach? Hopefully not history—perhaps social studies, which is just a watered-down version of nothing...
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    longly replied to the thread Are you ashamed of your heritage?.
    No, the South fought a war against the Union—that is, the North. The United States failed to continue as it had once the South pulled...
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    longly replied to the thread Are you ashamed of your heritage?.
    If Lincoln had lived, we would most likely be in a much better place today—both the South and the nation as a whole, and race relations...
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    longly replied to the thread Who Made Life In The U.S. Unaffordable?.
    You are right—Trump sent out two, and Biden did one. However, the transitory inflationary delaying action was entirely Biden’s...
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    longly replied to the thread Who Made Life In The U.S. Unaffordable?.
    I recall Republicans warning Democrats that sending out all those stimulus checks during the pandemic was a mistake. They argued that we...
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    longly replied to the thread Are you ashamed of your heritage?.
    There’s a lesson to be learned from that. I have said many times before that wars are won or lost before the first shot is ever fired...
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    longly replied to the thread Are you ashamed of your heritage?.
    Those things happen in riots and war. They happened just recently, and I don't assign blame in history. I point out mistakes; if you...
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    longly replied to the thread Are you ashamed of your heritage?.
    I wasn’t justifying anything; I was analyzing based on my knowledge of the times. Many of those in the mob had grandfathers who had...
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    longly replied to the thread Are you ashamed of your heritage?.
    That’s basically why slavery disappeared from Western Europe in the early Middle Ages. I think it is in Deuteronomy that prohibition...
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    longly replied to the thread Are you ashamed of your heritage?.
    I don’t think so. If large numbers of Black Americans had moved up from the South and been able to establish their own communities...
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    longly replied to the thread Are you ashamed of your heritage?.
    It might have been more accurate if they had said “all white men,” “all Englishmen,” or “all men who looked like them,” because they...
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    longly replied to the thread Are you ashamed of your heritage?.
    The Radical Republicans in the North wanted to maintain the military occupation so they could prevent former Confederates from voting...
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    longly replied to the thread Are you ashamed of your heritage?.
    I can see that you were awake and paying attention during your Advanced History class. You can’t believe how ignorant the average person...
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