Seriously? "... I don't feel an intense need to flock to Trump for safety." Look up the term 'passive aggressive."
Here's what you said about Christine's statement: "Like with any epithet, it's just some asshole's opinion and it will almost certainly never impact you or I in the real world." I didn't call her and asshole, you did. But I'm…
Seriously? "... I don't feel an intense need to flock to Trump for safety." Look up the term 'passive aggressive."
Here's what you said about Christine's statement: "Like with any epithet, it's just some asshole's opinion and it will almost certainly never impact you or I in the real world." I didn't call her and asshole, you did. But I'm sure she won't mind, because people are just so naturally insulting these days, so why worry about it. At least, I think that's what you're trying to say. I can't really tell.
BTW, the KKK was democrat. And no, they didn't all become republicans.
It's good to see my attempt to be understanding and make a bridge with you was immediately set alight by you. You are in some kind of intensely agitated, ultra-defensive state, and are absolutely unpleasant to talk to in your current state.
All you've done in your comments is lash out at others while getting defensive when anyone else speaks to you in any fashion, this is not the signal of a good-faith person who wants a discussion.
First of all, this notion that the "asshole" in my statement was Christine is a fabrication built on your frankly paranoid and self-victimizing reading of the entire context. You think Christine PERSONALLY attacked you because she called out Trump and racists.
I don't read the situation that way, I don't think Christine is PERSONALLY impugning you or specifically calling you a racist. When I say "just because some asshole called you a racist", I'm not talking about Christine, YOU think I am. The "asshole" I'm talking about is a rhetorical placeholder for: "anyone with an opinion you disagree with".
Given Christine liked my comment, I think it's pretty clear she isn't living in a hyper-reactionary world where even a vague implication she's been called a name causes her to fly off the handle.
With regard to the KKK being Democratic, yeah, they were, and literally no Democrat today will deny that.
It's also completely besides the point, because the KKK have not been associated with the Democratic party for some +60 years. I wouldn't have been a Democrat in 1860 - I would have been a Republican, as would virtually all present-day Democrats.
And yes, the KKK DID become Republican, OR they quit politics entirely/splintered off into various third parties. They did not stay in the Democratic party.
Here's a moderate conservative (libertarian) discussing the reality of the ideological transfer from the Democratic party to the Republican party that occured in the 20th century:
It's not some conspiracy, it's objective fact that the ideologies of both parties basically inverted over the last 160 years. The names stuck around, but the modern GOP has nothing in common with the newborn radical party of Lincoln in the 1850s and 1860s, neither does the Democratic party of today.
No, the KKK did NOT move to the republican party. That is a racist LIE. Democrats are desperate to divert people away from the reality that the democratic party was and is the party of institutional racism. It's interesting that you all get so defensive about it. It's interesting that you blame me for being defensive, when all I'm doing is telling the truth. YOU are being defensive about it.
Consider for a moment that what you've been led to believe by the democratic party and democrat teachers is BS. Which party demanded to KEEP slavery prior to the civil war? That's right, the democratic party. Which party was behind the south's secession and led the south in the civil war? That's right, the democratic party. Which party formed the KLKK after the civil war, in order to terrorize the freed slaves into submission? That's right, the democratic party. (They also lynched white republicans). Which party enacted and enforced the Jim Crow laws? That's right, the democratic party. Which party's elected officials stood against MLK? That's right, the democratic party. Which party controls the black ghettoes today? That's right, the democratic party. Which party hired the cops that shoot the black guys in the black ghettos? That's right, the democratic party.
What has Trump got to do with any of this racism? Not a damned thing. What have I got to do with any of this racism? Not a damned thing. What do democrats have to do with this racism? EVERYTHING.
Denial may make you feel better. Transferring your own guilt onto others may make for a great coping device. But it doesn't solve the problem of racism in America.
Seriously? "... I don't feel an intense need to flock to Trump for safety." Look up the term 'passive aggressive."
Here's what you said about Christine's statement: "Like with any epithet, it's just some asshole's opinion and it will almost certainly never impact you or I in the real world." I didn't call her and asshole, you did. But I'm sure she won't mind, because people are just so naturally insulting these days, so why worry about it. At least, I think that's what you're trying to say. I can't really tell.
BTW, the KKK was democrat. And no, they didn't all become republicans.
It's good to see my attempt to be understanding and make a bridge with you was immediately set alight by you. You are in some kind of intensely agitated, ultra-defensive state, and are absolutely unpleasant to talk to in your current state.
All you've done in your comments is lash out at others while getting defensive when anyone else speaks to you in any fashion, this is not the signal of a good-faith person who wants a discussion.
First of all, this notion that the "asshole" in my statement was Christine is a fabrication built on your frankly paranoid and self-victimizing reading of the entire context. You think Christine PERSONALLY attacked you because she called out Trump and racists.
I don't read the situation that way, I don't think Christine is PERSONALLY impugning you or specifically calling you a racist. When I say "just because some asshole called you a racist", I'm not talking about Christine, YOU think I am. The "asshole" I'm talking about is a rhetorical placeholder for: "anyone with an opinion you disagree with".
Given Christine liked my comment, I think it's pretty clear she isn't living in a hyper-reactionary world where even a vague implication she's been called a name causes her to fly off the handle.
With regard to the KKK being Democratic, yeah, they were, and literally no Democrat today will deny that.
It's also completely besides the point, because the KKK have not been associated with the Democratic party for some +60 years. I wouldn't have been a Democrat in 1860 - I would have been a Republican, as would virtually all present-day Democrats.
And yes, the KKK DID become Republican, OR they quit politics entirely/splintered off into various third parties. They did not stay in the Democratic party.
Here's a moderate conservative (libertarian) discussing the reality of the ideological transfer from the Democratic party to the Republican party that occured in the 20th century:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvcYjG0Sq1I
It's not some conspiracy, it's objective fact that the ideologies of both parties basically inverted over the last 160 years. The names stuck around, but the modern GOP has nothing in common with the newborn radical party of Lincoln in the 1850s and 1860s, neither does the Democratic party of today.
No, the KKK did NOT move to the republican party. That is a racist LIE. Democrats are desperate to divert people away from the reality that the democratic party was and is the party of institutional racism. It's interesting that you all get so defensive about it. It's interesting that you blame me for being defensive, when all I'm doing is telling the truth. YOU are being defensive about it.
Consider for a moment that what you've been led to believe by the democratic party and democrat teachers is BS. Which party demanded to KEEP slavery prior to the civil war? That's right, the democratic party. Which party was behind the south's secession and led the south in the civil war? That's right, the democratic party. Which party formed the KLKK after the civil war, in order to terrorize the freed slaves into submission? That's right, the democratic party. (They also lynched white republicans). Which party enacted and enforced the Jim Crow laws? That's right, the democratic party. Which party's elected officials stood against MLK? That's right, the democratic party. Which party controls the black ghettoes today? That's right, the democratic party. Which party hired the cops that shoot the black guys in the black ghettos? That's right, the democratic party.
What has Trump got to do with any of this racism? Not a damned thing. What have I got to do with any of this racism? Not a damned thing. What do democrats have to do with this racism? EVERYTHING.
Denial may make you feel better. Transferring your own guilt onto others may make for a great coping device. But it doesn't solve the problem of racism in America.