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by Contusion3532
1064 days ago
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Slavery abolition is a progressive position, and in the Civil War era the Republican party was the more progressive party. In the 20th century there was an ideological shift in the Democratic and Republican parties. It's pretty clear that the modern Democratic party was the one pushing for civil rights. "The transition into today's Democratic Party was cemented in 1948, when Harry Truman introduced a pro-civil rights platform and, in response, many Democrats walked out and formed the Dixiecrats. Most rejoined the Democrats over the next decade, but in the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. The civil rights movement had also deepened existing racial tensions in much of the Southern United States, and Republican politicians developed strategies that successfully contributed to the political realignment of many white, conservative voters in the South who had traditionally supported the Democratic Party rather than the Republican Party. These approaches are known as the Southern strategy. Anti-civil rights members left the Democratic Party in droves, and Senator Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrats' presidential candidate from 1948, joined the Republican Party." [1] Also, look at a map of the Confederate states. Look at a map today. Why are they mostly red states today? The people/families that lived there then mostly stayed, except for the millions of African Americans that migrated to the north. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_switching_in_the_United_... |
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The modern Democratic Party is outraged that the US Supreme Court told them this month that “there’s too many Asians!” isn’t a legal basis to engage in systemic racism at universities like Harvard and UNC.
Multiple Democrat politicians publicly have condemned that victory for civil rights — because their platform is rebuilding institutional racism.
I don’t know how twisted up you have to be to think the same party that founded the KKK, implemented Jim Crow, implemented racial quotas, and implemented systemic racism against Asians is somehow the one fighting for civil rights — but it’s factually untrue.
Democrats right now, today, are fighting to rebuild organized racism.
As they have for 150 years.