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    Were fucking Republicans. We freed the slaves. We forced through reconstruction. We were responsible for civil rights. We literally have the historical record to make these arguments to the face of these race obsessed garbage people.

    LOL. I so laughed at this line. Some people are unbelievably clueless.

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        Republican in name only, or RINO. Republicans back then were the same as Democrats today in terms of policy which I find weird.

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            They probably do know that, if they know enough to argue that. But they’re also clearly racist for thinking that helping historically oppressed groups is bad and obviously means we want to hurt the advantaged groups (zero-sum at best, but mostly likely projection).

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          Republicans used to be the urban pro-industrial party, democrats were the party of rural farmers.

          Urban industrialists didn’t directly rely on slave labor so they were more open to abolitionists. Rural farmers were heavily dependent on slave labor so they were very pro slavery.

          It’s also why the democratic party has always tried to get universal health insurance passed. The party is made up of farmers with law degrees, so the local Doctor, the only other educated man who it was appropriate to socialize with would come around a lot— so they were constantly hearing stories about how their friend had to accept chickens or food as payment instead of money.

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          Republican in name only, or RINO. Republicans back then were the same as Democrats today in terms of policy which I find weird.

          why?

          popular consensus is that barry goldwater was a trump like populist presidential candidate that took advantage of american’s very strong disapproval of the civil rights & voting acts and dog-whistled the republican party into adopting its present day policy; do you not see it that way?

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      Notice that while they’re posting on /r/conservative they don’t use the word “conservative” in that sentence. Because then they’d have to say:

      Were fucking Republicans conservatives. We freed fought for keeping the slaves. We forced through fought against reconstruction. We were responsible for against civil rights. We literally have the historical record to make these arguments to the face of these race obsessed are garbage people.

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      I bet they also believe Democrats do nothing to help black people in recent times.

      Which, to be clear, is true in many ways. Now apply the same logic to Republicans who bleat out “we were the ones who freed the slaves!”.

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        The best things conservatives have done for black people in recent times is being super wierd and thus keeping themselves out of power