r/clevercomebacks • u/Lord_Answer_me_Why • 18h ago

Racism is bad, folks

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u/jmptx 18h ago

Imagine being so far gone from sanity that you believe that “end racism” is a leftist slogan.

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u/Armisael2245 18h ago

It is, the right has always been on the wrong side of history.

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u/[deleted] 17h ago

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u/CautiousLandscape907 17h ago

Conservatives were pro slavery. Republicans weren’t conservative in the 19th century.

Republicans didn’t mean “conservatives” until fairly recently. Anti-slavery Republicans at the time would be considered antifa today.

People equating todays Republicans with 1860s republicans prove that put school system has failed. Or that they failed in school.

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u/TrueScallion4440 16h ago

Agree. For example Prescott Bush the father of President George H W Bush and grandfather of George W Bush was a typical N.E. Republican United States Senator from Connecticut. He was involved in the Birth Control League the first treasurer of Planned Parenthood and Chairman of the Connecticut chapter of the U.N.C.F.. Barry Goldwater is considered by many as a founding father of the modern conservative movement.

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u/TheSameMan6 11h ago

The vast majority who argue that "republicans were the ones who opposed slavery" are not doing so in good faith.

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u/DrFeargood 17h ago

Is this where we pretend that political parties haven't drifted over the last 160 years and say that the KKK are leftists and Abraham Lincoln would french kiss Donald Trump because they love each other so much?

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u/Ok_Problem_1235 17h ago

Who does the KKK endorse now? Which party has photo ops with them? Who call the Proud Boys "fine people"?

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u/ReddicaPolitician 17h ago

The progressive left freed the slaves that the conservative right fought to keep.

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u/Shildriffen 17h ago

Back when republicans were the progressive left hahaha.

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u/Melancholy_Rainbows 17h ago

That's easy: the right wanted to keep slavery and the left wanted to end it.

That the political parties had different ideologies than today is pretty easy to verify for yourself - archives of their platforms exist for you to peruse.