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[–] 288 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Let us not forget: it was the Democrat Party that once supported the formation of the KKK, pushed Jim Crow laws, and defended slavery

They like to conveniently forget that the parties had a flip. So yes, while the democrats IN NAME pushed all that abhorrent ideals, those democrats are the Republicans today.

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  • [–] 218 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Who cares about any of that.

    Just ask who do the KKK vote for now

    Obama? Harris? Clinton? Biden?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Reminder that the Irish and the kkk are mortal enemies.

    Ask around notre dame.

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Amy is correct. Therefore, we should take down all the monuments to the Confederates that those Democrats put up.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I wonder if this could actually happen. Some of those local ballot measures are deliberately written in a confusing manner anyway. If someone managed to get "remove all democrat-placed statues prior to 1960" on a ballot in a red area I bet it'd pass.

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  • [+] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That was such a disingenuous comment. Literally relying on the peoples lack of history knowledge to distort the truth. It's fucking doublespeak.

    Don't lie to my face and tell me I like it.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wish more people realized this. They actually still think they are the party of Lincoln.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We think that because the Republican party has been made up of minorities for years now. I find it funny how you call Republicans racist, when a large majority of us are minorities ourselves.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Having a tiny percentage of voters not being white Christians doesn't mean the Republican party is "made up of" minorities.

    We call Republicans racist because they are. This administration has gone out of its way to erase any traces of history that even mentions people of another race.

    For example, there's only one reason to delete any references to the windtalkers, who played a pivotal role in the war, from federal WW2 sources. That's racism.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    While that is the pop culture explanation it isn't quite right. In order for the parties to have flipped. The rural xenophobic bigots would have had to go to the Republican party. And the Republicans fascists would have had to have gone to the Democratic party.

    The KKK and the bigots switched. The parties didn't really. The true irony being the KKK and Southern bigots were the huge influence on European fascists. But in the United States they were technically opposed simply because they had traditionally been in different political parties. But civil rights legislation brought about a realignment. Our ignorant xenophobic bigots and our fascist suddenly found themselves Brothers in Arms.

    The party's polarized along the xenophobia and bigotry lines. But they didn't really switch.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Only one party is enacting fascism here and it's not the Democrats. Such delusion.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I didn't say otherwise. I literally implied that the xenophobic bigots and the fascists all joined together in the Republican Party. You need to work on reading comprehension I think.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The rural xenophobic bigots would have had to go to the Republican party.

    That did happen

    And the Republicans fascists would have had to have gone to the Democratic party.

    This did not. So where did you say the opposite of what this means?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yes the whole point of that statement was pointing out that the latter didn't happen. It was a rhetorical statement. The framing before that statement made it quite obvious. Stating that in order for the parties to have switched. The fascists would have to leave the Republican party. Which anyone who is informed knows did not happen. You are agreeing with me while attacking me.

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  • Ive only ever met one modern Republican who has explicitly aknowlaged it. When he asked me "do you like any famous Republicans" I responded "Lincoln wasnt too bad and John Brown was amazing". He immediately responded "uhhh the Republicans used to be woke, the Democrats used to be the party of freedom".

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