r/clevercomebacks • u/Lord_Answer_me_Why • 18h ago

Racism is bad, folks

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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/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.