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MESSAGE FOR FOLKS WHO FLUNKED US HISTORY IN HIGH SCHOOL:
"White liberals" didn't do any of this.
"White liberals" didn't do any of this.
See, when other people do this con, they know to single out stuff white southern conservatives did back when they were Democrats, and to identify the perpetrators as Democrats, but only to *imply* that today's liberal Democrats are the same as yesterday's conservative Democrats.
Because when you claim that the KKK -- a white supremacist organization dedicated to Christian nationalism which attacked racial & religious minorities, immigrants and labor activists and had a motto of "America First" -- was run by "white liberals," you just sound like an idiot.
And, likewise, when you claim that 39 percent of "white liberals" voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- which was proposed, written and passed by liberals in both parties, while conservatives like Barry Goldwater and Strom Thurmond voted against it -- you sound dumb too.
And when you say that "white liberals" signed the Southern Manifesto -- a denunciation of the liberal Warren Court's Brown decision, an attack on big government and a strong defense of states rights -- you really sound like someone who never once set foot in a history class.
And, I cannot stress this enough, when you address this kind of weaponized stupidity to "BLACK VOTERS" -- people who absolutely understand this history much, much, much better than you do because it's not some idiotic game to them -- well, you manage to look even worse.
