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"He's my daddy, he can't be evil" is just one of many pernicious ways people use the past to excuse murder.

nytimes.com/2019/03/13/obi…
And note that there's not much difference between this and white people in Oregon celebrating their pioneer past.
You can tell when I am on a research trip because I get irritated at how white people in the Northwest talk about the past.
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My hot take on Beto and the 2020 Democratic Primary is that I wish everyone would stop talking about all of this and focus for awhile on all the grassroots efforts happening to make this a less terrible nation.
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Here's some good rural resentment toward environmentalists. About a regulation to ban power boats on a river in 1981: "These are people, taxpayers, and I think yo will find that the people in powerboats have paid a lot more taxes than the food stamp crowd that floats."
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This Day in Labor History: March 10, 1979. Brazilian metalworkers walked off the job in a stark challenge to the dictatorship that had ruled the country since 1964. The strike’s leader was a 34 year old metalworker known as Lula. Let's talk about Brazil, labor, and fascism.
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