The funny thing about christians (whom I think it’s safe to say most biblical literalists are) is that they have this reverence for the past while ignoring what past christians thought about the hebrew bible (among other things, obviously).

I know.  They’ve been doing it a while too.

But surely there’s a better use of time?

The thing is, though, if the next question is another instance of holding him accountable to a lie, then he just spends all his time dodging lies, instead of promoting them. Surely you’ll say, “Well then he’ll just stop talking to the press” but you and I both know that’s not true so really, what is to be lost by…

I really wish I had lived through the Civil Rights movement because I know it was a time of great fear and outward division and I just want to know if it FELT like this.

I can’t quite put my finger on why, but lately I’ve been getting the impression that you can’t always get what you want

I mean just the background awfulness of [sweeping gesture with both arms]. It’s bad for mental/emotional health under the best of personal circumstances, never mind with serious personal stress thrown in.

My MIL would much rather believe that Black people are inherently more criminal than learn we are overpoliced.

For me, it’s because he’s pushing a book that had made far too many peyote believe that white slavery was a thing. I want a reply to his links to the book so that there is art least a chance that people will understand the problems with it before they become him.

Nick, if you’re going to write on this topic in this Trumpian timeline, you might want to do your comment section a favor and grey out the active propagandists

I’m really not sure why there are so many people arguing with a troll who’s trying to disavow history and whom it’s clear isn’t engaging in good faith ...

How did that troll get out of the greys?   It sounds just like the racist that was interviewed, with its hypocrisy and its equivocation

So?  Make him fucking own his lies on tape.  Make him sit there and watch his own horseshit racism and see what the fuck he does.  See if he grins his shit-eating grin and owns it or if he tries to duck & weave like the fucking liar he is -- regardless, get it on tape. 

They were not slaves. They were indentured servants. Most were released when their time was up, and their children did not become slaves. They did that to the black people they considered inferior.

Yes, they probably know the difference, but they still conflated them to write the book. I have absolutely read it, and you are absolutely wrong about it. Have you read it?

You’re lying. I’ve read that book, and it’s about indentured servants, which is not the same thing.

I hope I see a day when the red hats are considered a symbol for what we know they are by the mainstream. Like, baseball teams won’t use them and they are banned in schools like swastikas.

And for two days after the tweet he kept at it with “if they don’t love this country, they should leave.”

Well you all have been doing racist shit for hundreds of years so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ this seems like a weak reason to excuse racist shit.

MAGA Chuds get the boot. There is no excuse for a group that’s just a red-hatted KKK to exist in this world.