The right-wing argument that pushes me over the EDGE.

[rockydem]

When I hear it I feel like throwing things against the wall. It is so asinine - so wrong - so delusional.

Right-wingers will sometimes argue that it was their side that fought for civil rights back in the sixties. However, it was our fuckin' party that kicked the Dixiecrats out - it was 'liberals' who took to the streets to fight, not wingers.

There was a reason Strom Thurmond began his career as a Democrat and ended it as a repig.

I've heard this on right-wing radio and on FR. It's a pretty common right-wing meme. I've actually heard them say "liberals opposed civil rights."

AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ClassWarrior]

1. Mythmaking. Ignore it.

Read "What's the Matter with Kansas" by Thos. Frank. It'll explain a lot.

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[Raenelle]

8. Absolutely. They are proudly not members of the reality-based community.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Kindly remind them

that Goldwater opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964-which made it an issue in that campaign. Don't recall any of the early Civil Rights workers being anything but liberal. After all, it was a Unitarian minister who was shot during the march across the bridge in AL. I know there were fundamentalists back then too (some of my relatives, sadly, were that), and they weren't interested in civil rights-though they were interested in bashing Catholics as "idol-worshippers".

[Longhorn]

5. So did Bush Sr. until he saw the handwriting on the wall.

Then he started campaigning on it as if he was the damn author of the Civil Rights movement!

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[DS1]

4. What the GOP did was argue that slavery should be prevented from growing,

but the actual abolition of slavery was a matter of state's rights.

It was genuinely a pro-business approach, and wasn't about freeing slaves at all, just about limiting it to where it was. Freeing slaves would've been bad for business.

[Tsiyu]

6. And guess how many Southern Repukes tell me

"Lincoln wasn't a REAL Republican" ?

[vinnievin777]

7. Yeah

That's why they are doing everything they can to stop minorities from voting.

Vinnie Vin
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