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ck4829

(35,020 posts) Mon Jul 22, 2019, 07:16 AM Jul 2019

"Back in the 60s", Twitter didn't exist... so why does Ron Johnson have a Twitter account?

Ron Johnson, a Republican senator from Wisconsin, defended on Sunday Donald Trump's attacks on a group of minority freshmen lawmakers as something that would have been accepted in the 1960s.

Johnson is making reference to a tweet Trump sent this week telling people if they don't like America they are free to leave and go somewhere else.

'I would say in general the whole, 'America: love it or leave it' is not a new sentiment,' Johnson, who was born in 1955, told CNN's Dana Bash Sunday morning. 'You know, back in the '60s that wasn't considered racist.'

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212301333

Is Senator Ron Johnson aware Twitter didn't exist in the 60s?

https://twitter.com/SenRonJohnson

Be sure to go visit his page and ask him.

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"Back in the 60s", Twitter didn't exist... so why does Ron Johnson have a Twitter account? (Original Post) ck4829 Jul 2019 OP

Yeah, because it was addressed to anti-war people of all colors. sinkingfeeling Jul 2019 #1

They're moving the needle again Johnny2X2X Jul 2019 #2

I'm the same age as he is and yeah, we knew it was racist back then, too Maeve Jul 2019 #3

He was a "tween" in the mid-60's Greybnk48 Jul 2019 #4

Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see where he said, or implied, that twitter existed back then. Captain Stern Jul 2019 #5

Since his benchmark for how society should be is "in the sixties", then he should live it ck4829 Jul 2019 #6

Ok. I misunderstood. Captain Stern Jul 2019 #7

sinkingfeeling

(51,430 posts)

1. Yeah, because it was addressed to anti-war people of all colors.

Reply to ck4829 (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2019, 09:04 AM

Jul 2019

Johnny2X2X

(18,945 posts)

2. They're moving the needle again

Reply to ck4829 (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2019, 09:11 AM

Jul 2019

Trump didn't originally say "love it or leave it." He said they "should go back to where the corrupt countries they came from."

Maeve

(42,269 posts)

3. I'm the same age as he is and yeah, we knew it was racist back then, too

Reply to ck4829 (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2019, 09:13 AM

Jul 2019

Besides, the line being used now is "send her back" and that is even moreso racist.

Greybnk48

(10,161 posts)

4. He was a "tween" in the mid-60's

Reply to ck4829 (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2019, 09:42 AM

Jul 2019

And didn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground. Nothing’s changed.

Captain Stern

(2,198 posts)

5. Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see where he said, or implied, that twitter existed back then.

Reply to ck4829 (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2019, 09:56 AM

Jul 2019

What he's saying is that people back in the sixties would say 'America: love it or leave it', and that it wasn't considered racist. I don't know if that's true or not, but it's really beside the point, because that's not what trump said at all.

However, I'm not seeing where someone would get the idea that the guy thought twitter was around back in the sixties.

ck4829

(35,020 posts)

6. Since his benchmark for how society should be is "in the sixties", then he should live it

Reply to Captain Stern (Reply #5)

Mon Jul 22, 2019, 09:59 AM

Jul 2019

Trump and his cronies hold up the past as some sort of standard, well then, let's keep them to it.

Captain Stern

(2,198 posts)

7. Ok. I misunderstood.

Reply to ck4829 (Reply #6)

Mon Jul 22, 2019, 10:23 AM

Jul 2019

However, I don't think he's really just trying to say things should be like they were in the sixties. The phrase 'America: Love it, or leave it' isn't necessarily racist.

What he's doing is lying about what trump said......then, he's arguing that the made-up thing that he is claiming trump said wasn't racist back then, and shouldn't be now.

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