• carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Yeah I mean, what would people think if they took all those statues of Hitler down in Germany, or Mussolini- we have to celebrate our history! Both sides! /s

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Gosh it’d be nice to have a spoiler candidate take GoP votes for once. I heard it happened before but certainly not in my lifetime so far…

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    1 month ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denounced the removal of hundreds of Confederate statues and other monuments across the United States after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020.

    In a podcast interview that aired live on Friday from the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, Mr. Kennedy, an independent candidate for president, portrayed the removal of statues honoring the Confederacy as “destroying history,” echoing similar comments made by former President Donald J. Trump in support of the monuments.

    “I have a visceral reaction against the attacks on those statues,” Mr. Kennedy said on the podcast, which was hosted by Tim Pool, a right-wing commentator.

    Statues and other monuments glorifying the Confederacy were erected — most at the height of the Jim Crow era — as part of a movement to advance the Lost Cause myth, which in various iterations depicted the Confederacy’s rebellion as a noble defense of Southern values or falsely asserted that the Civil War was fought over “states’ rights,” not slavery.

    Hundreds of Confederate symbols have been taken down since 2020, driven by social justice activists and local communities who viewed the monuments as glorifying an ugly history of racism against African Americans.

    As a candidate in 2020, President Biden supported the removal of Confederate statues, as well as the renaming of the Army bases, which was ultimately carried out during his administration.


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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I wish this guy would be slightly smarter and a lot more charismatic. He could be just the spoiler candidate Biden needs to not throw away the election and thus democracy with his stubborn insistence on participating in and excusing genocide and dozens of other crimes against humanity.