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Roy Moore: America should be "great again" like when we had slavery
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"His country's" clear direction was black people were property, not people.
I'm not sure how anyone else can take his statement as anything other than wishing to return to the ways of the Antebellum South.
All you need to do to understand idealistic white racial politics in the 20th century is watch Gone With the Wind, maybe the most successful film of all time.
The premise of the film was mourning when the South was "great."
Roy Moore clings to this playbook like a true pre-civil rights act piece of human excrement.
Politicians of his ilk, so clearly bigoted, used to be the norm in this country.
This is no dog-whistle. Moore is the type of politician who would stand in school doorways. It hasn't been that long.
Thank you for sharing this. This is super important. People seem to think that a "racist" is a crazy person that espouses violence and hate and contempt on a daily basis and are of the naive belief that millions of "normal every day" Americans weren't present at lynchings, protesting school integrations, voting for politicians who espouse segregation, etc. People who may have been your nice neighbor accross the street or your father or your grandmother. I think people are starting to wake up to the fact that the politicians who were alive in the 1960s and vehemently opposed integration and equal rights for black people didn't just suddenly do a heel turn and now are committed to equality and see the error of their ways. Many of them just learned that it isn't acceptable to express those views so nakedly in public anymore. The people who were taunting black students, gathering around for protests, circulating lynching postcards, patronizing businesses that explicitly stated they will not be serving black people did not just suddenly have a collective "aha! racism is bad and I've been a racist my whole life!" moment. They held and continue to hold the cognitive dissonant view of "I liked things better when white people didn't have equal competition and a man/woman like me could say and do whatever I wanted to people who looked different. I'm not racist"
mmm, delicious caping for a pedophile who wants to reinstate a time of slavery.
No, they're not. What he's saying is that Slavery is bad(In a patronizing manner) but not as bad as not having his archaic vision of family unity without the gays mucking everything up.
The wholesome vision of America that the RNC advertises is the brief period of the nuclear family, back in the mid twentieth century. The good old days Moore refers to are when human lives, even those of your children, were property, and the 1% worked the rest to death because it was more 'cost effective' to replace than to do upkeep, Guess which one is the real objective.
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He specifically wasn't referring to the 20th century. Not to mention this is the guy who thinks homosexuality should be as illegal as beastiality and thinks 9/11 was caused by homosexuality.
before Slavery?
holding human beings as property, how can anyone still defend this in the 21st century?
Family unity?
Fathers treated their kids like cattle. Women did not have to right ot vote and were sumbissive to their husband.
People have rose colored glasses on what they thought families were back in the old day.
Life was fucken hard back in those good old days
holding human beings as property, how can anyone still defend this in the 21st century?
Family unity?
Fathers treated their kids like cattle. Women did not have to right ot vote and were sumbissive to their husband.
People have rose colored glasses on what they thought families were back in the old day.
Life was fucken hard back in those good old days
A lot of things should have happened but were ignored, put off, or outright denied in favor of keeping the status quo that existed from the time of the first established colonies.
Guys he's obviously talking about the better times BEFORE anyone tried to abolish slavery and it was just part of American life.
Of course he's not talking about when people tried to abolish slavery and ruined the perfect synergy America had.
Of course he's not talking about when people tried to abolish slavery and ruined the perfect synergy America had.
I don't want to defend the creep but he did say "even though we had slavery" which implies that it's a bad thing.
amazing that this distinction needs to be made and you know, people don't actually see it.
It's also the part that gives you the time frame he's referring to. Like, he could have said any time, he could have said a year or a historical period, but he decided on slavery time.
Seriously, people. And he's only doing that much because he'd rather dog whistle.
Some Alabama people disgust me. I mean, voting for an accused pedophile just because he has an (R) by his name and not a (D).
To those who will vote for him: fuck you sick fuckos for wanting to vote for a guy who thought the time period when you had slavery was great, a guy who apaprently is a pedophile.
This is pissing me of to a great extend. Have you no morales? No dignity? You think Jesus would accept this guy? Perhaps old testament Jesus, but not new testament Jesus.
I think Jesus would have voted for the American Socialist Alternative.
To those who will vote for him: fuck you sick fuckos for wanting to vote for a guy who thought the time period when you had slavery was great, a guy who apaprently is a pedophile.
This is pissing me of to a great extend. Have you no morales? No dignity? You think Jesus would accept this guy? Perhaps old testament Jesus, but not new testament Jesus.
I think Jesus would have voted for the American Socialist Alternative.
"Even though we had slavery" implies that some people just might have been slaves, and while that is not 'optimal' it was the greatest time for America overall. Really doesn't change much.
For instance, would Roy Moore, the black man, have the same sentiments? I think not.
Anyone remotely shocked by how an incident like this could happen, why "MAGA" endures, why someone like Moore can continue to get plenty of support (and Trump and Bannon will fight to defend him), or why his statements have a defence force even here, should take the time to read Ta-Nehisi Coates' "The First White President"
a long read, but worth the bookmark and come back to or you can download the audio version of it from the site.
a long read, but worth the bookmark and come back to or you can download the audio version of it from the site.
"Even though the rent's a little high, I love my apartment", "Even though it was a bit overlong, the movie is entirely worth paying full price for", "Even though we argue, I wouldn't trade a single moment with my wife for the world." What do these sound like? If he thinks and actually understands how bad slavery was he wouldn't look back fondly on that time for any reason unless he thought it was worth the suffering of black people.
It's pretty telling that when asked about the last great period in America, you'd think back to the days of slavery. You're basically saying that the wrong side won the Civil War, and it fucked everything up.
Say hello to conservatism in America, where they will absolutely vote for the R in lockstep no matter what. There is no convincing them, they will always be a problem here, and they will always have government representation of some sort, no matter how much progress is made. A diet of Fox News does that.
Even if he isn't explicitly saying "Everything was better when we had slavery", he's implying that slavery included still meant America was better than it is today.
Weird and dangerous internal logic.
Weird and dangerous internal logic.
It implies that it's a better thing than the current situation, which is black people aren't property, women are allowed to vote, gay people are allowed to get married, and we generally frown upon fucking teenagers.
No, it's not.
He's literally pining for a time where "family unity" was better, a time where families kept people as property, a time where "family unity" clearly only applies to whites.
And what we know of his history it all fits.
The title is simply cutting through the bullshit.
This is guy is on his way in, Franken is on his way out. Can't find a better example of why liberalism is a losing enterprise. There is no bottom for conservatives. An enemy with no conscience is really hard to beat.
Seriously, what the hell.
"He's not saying he likes slavery, he's saying our nation was at its greatest when we had slavery and he wants to return to those great times. The pedophile has honest intentions."
Liberals aren't losing anything by removing Franken.
Come back to me after the 2018 special election and we'll see if you're right or not.
I will! I think it also matters for all elections that year that feature the Democrat party, ie a party that it not actively supporting gropers anymore.
Not bad enough as he considers that period of time to be the last time America was great.