re: #347 Belafon

Yeah, but during the end of the 19 century and a good portion of the 20th it controlled a party, got a bunch of white people together and convinced them they were so right that actual parties were held during lynchings.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the point is that we had been progressing beyond that. And now we’re sliding back, and the ability of racists, kooks, and nutballs to get together and feed off each other that the internet provides is instrumental in that.

I mean, sure, things were bad then. But they were getting better, and Uncle Ralph had been consigned to condescending eyerolls and being hushed by his embarrassed wife. Now she agrees with him and spews toxic horseshit of her own.