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2021-03-19 -Great Cultural Revolution

CNN blasted for 'clickbait conspiracy theories' over Abraham Lincoln piece

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Posted by Fred 2021-03-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Next target: MLK. "Content of character" be rayciss.

Posted by Wheresh Glamble1686 2021-03-19 00:57|| 2021-03-19 00:57|| Front Page Top

#2 He considered everyone deserving of moral consideration and to be self-directed humans. That places him far, far above the modern left, who consider non-whites subhumans incapable of doing anything but reacting to white actions.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-03-19 07:45|| 2021-03-19 07:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Lincoln was a scum bag. Tear down that memorial.

Posted by Clem 2021-03-19 10:38|| 2021-03-19 10:38|| Front Page Top

#4 There are some subjects that cannot be discussed rationally in public and often in private and that has been the case for at least the last eighty years and probably much longer. Among these is slavery. It is and has been taboo for the last century for anyone to say anything positive about slavery in the United States, and that is what makes the anger of former slaves and some of their descendents at Lincoln unintelligible today.
Lincoln freed the slaves. But slaves had rights guaranteed by law, in the South. To free a slave required that the slave agree to it. Freeing them all deprived slaves of rights previously guaranteed to them (obligations of slave owners to them). Some slaves were angry at losing those rights.
Since the rights can never be mentioned in public, almost nobody today knows what they were angry about.

Posted by daniel 2021-03-19 11:51|| 2021-03-19 11:51|| Front Page Top

#5 old Abe is not around to defend himself and historians are afraid to open their mouths. This is clearly an effort by the woke community to get non-woke people to believe they are racists since George Washington, Abraham Lincoln... are now considered racists.

Posted by Airandee 2021-03-19 12:03|| 2021-03-19 12:03|| Front Page Top

#6 FOAD, Clem.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-03-19 12:19|| 2021-03-19 12:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Tear down that memorial.

You forgot to add ;-) or /sarcasm, Clem.

It doesn’t matter if Mr. Lincoln thought Blacks were inferior, so long as he thought they were entitled to the same rights and freedoms as white citizens and was willing to act to ensure they got them. After that, he was content to let individual ability and ambition do for them what it had done for him — a mostly self-taught backwoods nobody who’d risen to be president of the United States.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-03-19 16:32|| 2021-03-19 16:32|| Front Page Top

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