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Seth Meyers: Trump Melts Down at Rally After Getting Impeached

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)12/20/2019 1:11:14 pm PST

re: #166 Jay C

Well, you can: if you deliberately distort history to minimize it. IOW, like the most of American History has been taught since, like, forever.

It seems to fairly common on the Right: I saw this yesterday while reading Rod Dreher’s transphobic gibberish: he spared a stock gripe about the New York Times’ “1619 Project”, bitching that it posited “America as a slaveocracy” - a concept he seemed to be quite offended by…..

I’m a Virginian as you know. Slavery built this state first as a colony and then a state. You just can’t escape it. People like Dreher hurt society by acting like we should just ignore things. There’s a reason why the unfortunate African Americans caught by the CSA during the war were treated so cruelly. There’s a reason why Jefferson’s white heirs fought so hard to deny Sally Hemings mothered his kids.