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good point...now it is impossoble to tell the difference between liberals and cons.
Blackface, Virginia and the sound of shattering glass houses
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Crixus
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The thing that's really hillarious, Dimocrats today want you to resign if you had blackface, even as just a funny costume, decades ago.
Yet just a handful of years ago they honored and had no problem with Robert Byrd who ACTUALLY WAS an Exalted Cyclops in the KKK in his past.
Don't anyone say this party hasn't radically changed in just a few years.
Yet just a handful of years ago they honored and had no problem with Robert Byrd who ACTUALLY WAS an Exalted Cyclops in the KKK in his past.
Don't anyone say this party hasn't radically changed in just a few years.
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In the best of worlds, this whole Northam (et. al.) issue would be an occasion to look at ourselves. How daily racism pervades the nation to this day, how learning about it is still discouraged or rejected, how even the information about "blackface" is lacking. We'd all have a heck of a lot to do getting a little more insight.
What we see, at least on here and in published opinion, is quite different, in many a case quite understandably so. Democrats look bad, and Republicans, having elected the most overtly racist goon to the highest office of the land, sigh in relief, if they're not gloating outright. For, since the other side has ugly all over them, by comparison, they look better. They still are the party that willingly and eagerly provides a home to racists, and panders to them to keep it that way.
Democrats, of course, see their electoral gains made in 2018 melt away, or prospects in 2020 vanish, and angrily demand the head of the scapegoat - who probably isn't any more guilty than they themselves are. The downside is, of course, as usual when judgment is being rendered before the facts are clear, and principles are firmly established, that a teaching moment is lost, squandered, and political expediency has the upper hand over genuine development.
No one, literally, escapes the lasting heritage, the American (arguably, the human) Birth Defect, in Condoleeza Rice's terms. Dealing with it is hard. I, for one, was most disappointed in Northam. Almost 35 years later, he hasn't thought about the whole thing, how that photo got into his yearbook. After so many years, he hasn't really come to terms with his own past enough to offer a compelling, genuine account of what and who he was, and what steps he took since. It just isn't that important, and never was, as is so often the case with the privileged class.
What we see, at least on here and in published opinion, is quite different, in many a case quite understandably so. Democrats look bad, and Republicans, having elected the most overtly racist goon to the highest office of the land, sigh in relief, if they're not gloating outright. For, since the other side has ugly all over them, by comparison, they look better. They still are the party that willingly and eagerly provides a home to racists, and panders to them to keep it that way.
Democrats, of course, see their electoral gains made in 2018 melt away, or prospects in 2020 vanish, and angrily demand the head of the scapegoat - who probably isn't any more guilty than they themselves are. The downside is, of course, as usual when judgment is being rendered before the facts are clear, and principles are firmly established, that a teaching moment is lost, squandered, and political expediency has the upper hand over genuine development.
No one, literally, escapes the lasting heritage, the American (arguably, the human) Birth Defect, in Condoleeza Rice's terms. Dealing with it is hard. I, for one, was most disappointed in Northam. Almost 35 years later, he hasn't thought about the whole thing, how that photo got into his yearbook. After so many years, he hasn't really come to terms with his own past enough to offer a compelling, genuine account of what and who he was, and what steps he took since. It just isn't that important, and never was, as is so often the case with the privileged class.
Aba Incieni
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You mistake me for a Democrat.
SassyIrishLass
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The point is the dems (left) started the weaponizing people's pasts and crucufying them over it....all the while having these skeletons in their closests.
The past couple of weeks have been hilarious.
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Two Dems in Black Face plus 1 Dem Sexual Assaulter < 1 GOP Year Book Editor
And the Dem-Progs started this nonsensical witch hunt, so your attempt to make the GOP morally equivalent in the culpability pins the Bogometer. Jim Crow law promoters and the KKK were largely made up of Democrats. It's the Dem heritage on display in the South.
I admit that I did not realize it was that old.
My point stands. He acts like slavery ended yesterday And he ignores the price paid by the south in blood. And treasure.
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Just the Dems...really? They all do it. You know it.
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The few that were left wanted a dictator. They installed Napoleon as Emperor.
SassyIrishLass
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It keeps going over your head...I'm talking about the usual leftist hypocrisy.
Catch up or stop annoying me
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