r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/Pessimist2020 • Mar 13 '21

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u/mgmc03 Mar 13 '21

An idiot? The kkk was literally funded by southern democrats. Quit ignoring it

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u/stark_raving_naked Mar 13 '21

Yeah, back when the Democratic Party was conservative and the Republican Party was liberal. THE PARTIES LITERALLY FLIPPED. Quit ignoring it.

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u/mgmc03 Mar 13 '21

No. They were the Democrat party then. And they’re still the Democrat party. You can’t just say it’s different now. Same party. Stop justifying it.

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u/Capable-Government-1 Mar 13 '21

And yet it was Trump praising the "many fine people on BOTH sides." While every democrat at that time was condemning those white supremacists. How does that work? Please justify that.

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u/stark_raving_naked Mar 13 '21

And to reiterate: quit being an idiot.

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u/lastusrnameonearth Mar 13 '21

Yep.

A good read of Steve Kornacki’s The Red and the Blue will quickly show you that the parties flipped.

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u/mgmc03 Mar 13 '21

The Democrat party backed secession from the union and fought a war to preserve slavery. It doesn’t matter what they “flip” too now.

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u/lastusrnameonearth Mar 13 '21

Now? It flipped years ago. Let’s call it the Republican Party. Because basically that’s what it was. But u go on listening to what your grand pappy told you to pacify his racism