I know this is late, but Gavin was talking about how southern leftists are probably more chill than northern ones and it definitely stuck in my craw because in the South, SJWs, leftist, BLM etc feel they have a REASON for their positions. They are more emboldened because various injustices have been more recent and lets say actual.
If they are natives or transplants they go out of their way NOT to be aligned with racism or religion. They are the type to abide by ALL talking points and rules, because not to do so would mean they are equivalent to Bull Conner. They quote Martin Luther King's statement "the suburbs are a “high-income white noose” around black inner cities." Ignoring the violence and mayhem within these cities, that blacks are fleeing. They stay in dangerous cities even after their loved ones are violently attacked making excuses for the system. They are particularly contemptful of religion and seak out nonreligous daycares and schools.
I live in Memphis and I feel abandoned by Tennessee. All of the cities in the south are no different than the cities in the north.
Southern leftists are justified they feel. In the city I lived in in the south the state university actually was found guilty of paying women less for the same positions in the 80s!! Do you know how hard that is to prove?!?! That case was one of the few if not the only successful lawsuit of its kind.
When I started my transition to "traditional liberal" or "not left." One thing that I kept thinking was that the right, republicans need to specifically address their past racism. Or at least specifically address it. Racism is the key. Black people in the south are never going to be republican unless this is done.
What past racism?
The GOP was the party that opposed slavery, supported integrating the army, and supported integrating schools. It wasn't Kennedy and Johnson that integrated schools, it was Eisenhower.
Like, all the leftist arguments that the Republicans are racist basically boil down to the fact that Nixon didn't seriously try to distance himself from Barry Goldwater, and didn't tell Strom Thurmond to go fuck himself.
And why? Because he was kinda busy trying to salvage an asian war he inherited from the Democrats.
If you see my response to the other person who made this point that was enough. They need to have been making your point since Nixon, but they are silent and allow themselves to be called racist at best. Like I said, what you say may be true but it’s not what most people believe we or know. They need to address it. For example I love Trump, but sometimes I wonder why he just didn’t like get a photo of him at rainbow push collation meetings arm in arm with Jesse Jackson and or say “hey I was the biggest donor to Jackson’s campaign, you guys are crazy to say I’m racist.” Or something to that effect. Basically say all thee weed things I say when defending him. I understand the arguments why not to do this, but Trump is known got his bluntness, I wish he just said something direct about it.
Why?
BECAUSE IT'S DIMWITTED BULLSHIT.
That which is asserted without evidence can be ignored without comment.
You do not dignify bullshit accusations by responding to them. The mere fact that you're responding means you're already on the back foot, playing defense. You ignore the loud morons and do your thing, because you're not going to persuade them.
The only PROBLEM the GOP has is that its actions since Reagan have not spoken very loudly. It was a mistake to elevate the Bush family. It was a mistake to make Jack Kemp the architect of twenty years of GOP policy. It was a mistake to go after Clinton for being a sex hound. It was a mistake to start two fucking ground wars in countries we've been bombing for decades to no effect.
In a universe where the GOP had listened to the message Ross Perot and Pat Buchannan were pitching, we wouldn't be in this mess today.
Imagine a world where the GOP had run Colin Powell in 1996. Would he have lost? Yeah, nobody was going to beat Clinton in 1996. But imagine how much different that world would have been.
I just dont think it is as simple as you guys are making it out to be. Granted this is wikipedia, but there are quite a few things in here where republicans aligned themselves with racial politics. I want to know when and why blacks started voting democrat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#:~:text=In%20American%20politics%2C%20the%20Southern,to%20racism%20against%20African%20Americans.
I said two posts ago:
The 1964 election was basically a contest between two overt racists, and it's just that one was more clever (Lyndon B).
Rockefeller was right that Goldwater would ruin the Republican party, but the problem was he was the wrong voice to say it, being too much of a progressive.
“ That which is asserted without evidence can be ignored without comment”
Yeah and how did that work out for him?
I understand what you are saying, but Trump never shied away from other dim witted bullshit. I get what you and the other poster are saying (I love your comment about Colin Powell) but how much longer are you both going to go, how much more are you willing to lose instead of freaking just addressing the race thing head on? Not apologize, not lie, but take away the dems BS narrative.
It can't be addressed head on because it's ultimately not about race to the SJWs. They're just trying to use race as a stand-in for their Marxist class war.