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UItimaterializer posted...

Espeon posted...

Okay, this has been bugging me a lot in the wake of the MAGAbomber and then the anti Semitic mass murderer in Pittsburgh. But how the fuck is any human being stupid enough to think DEMOCRATS are the real racists in America? Sure, there may be some racially tone-deaf statements made, but last I checked, neo-Nazis, White supremacists and Klansmen werent lining up to back the Democratic Party. Its like that Gillum video: sure, Republicans MIGHT not be racist, but theres certainly SOMETHING about their policies that appeals to fucking racists.

Democrats quite literally created the KKK: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008661705/

Nathan Bedford Forrest. Democratic leader. Source is the Library of Congress.

When it was created, the KKK was democrat affiliated. It then died for several decades, and then was revived by the first full length motion picture ever created (which depicted the KKK as heroes). Again by democrats for what it's worth. There was a Democrat in the white house at the time (Woodrow Wilson) who had imposed segregated workplaces on all federal employees, who liked the film cause it boosted support for his segregation policies.

But by 1964 things flipped around. A Democrat, Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawing segregation everywhere, and the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater, was running on a pro segregation platform. (Incidentally, one of the reasons Hillary Clinton gets accused of past racism is that she described herself as a "proud Goldwater girl" in high-school--her support for the segregationist Republican, not Democrat).

By the 80s and 90s though, both parties were rejecting the KKK. David Duke (former KKK leader) ran as a Democrat in the 1988 presidential primary election, and as a republican in the 1992 presidential primary, and got crushed BOTH times. For a while both parties were giving the KKK the middle finger.

This is kind of how it should be. The KKK will always be trying to find a way in to one of the parties, and both parties should be saying "no, we don't want you." And for a couple of decades both parties largely were rejecting the KKK.

I think the Republicans have gotten sloppy in the last couple years though. Openly white supremacist people like Steve King in congress, and for a while the top Republican in California's senate primary was an admitted Neo Nazi (Patrick Little). Republicans really need to clean house and get rid of these people. Little already lost; hopefully they dump King in the upcoming election.

And yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if 10-20 years down the road white supremacists will be trying to weasel their way into the Democratic party, and it'll be the Democrats needing to clean house. But right now, in 2018, it's Republicans who need to clean house.

To quote Mad-Eye Moody: "CONSTANT, NEVER-CEASING VIGILANCE."
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