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Not that we wouldn't at least suspect it before. Dinesh D’Souza was retweeting some postings for the trailer of a flim "Death of a Nation". Some people noticed that in these retweets there were hashtags like #burnthejews and #bringbackslavery

In his defense Dinesh claims that he didn't see the hashtags. Well, even if that were true, shouldn't it at least be a concern if the film you are trying to promote is promoted by others using those hashtags in reference to it?!? Shouldn't that at least be a red flag that maybe some people are not getting the most noble of messages from the trailer? And that in a case like that you should at least try to come up with some excuse as to why the film's message is actually incompatible with those hashtags, instead of just saying you didn't see them?
 
D'Sousa's post under the film trailer (see the link for the complete post):

"Not since 1860 have the Democrats so fanatically refused to accept the result of a free election. That year, their target was Lincoln. They smeared him. They went to war to defeat him. In the end, they assassinated him.

Now the target of the Democrats is President Trump and his supporters. The Left calls them racists, white supremacists and fascists. These charges are used to justify driving Trump from office and discrediting the right "by any means necessary.""

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=67&v=UXPhLXuJ90I
 
Like many white supremacists, D'Souza really isn't very smart at all. His basic storyline (the dems are the real racists, look at what they did during the Gilded Age) is asinine, he has a long history of sneering at black and Hispanic people that only serve to make him a part of the racists that he pretends to stand against, even his crime was laughably stupid, and he's apparently unable to understand that the people he's pushing for would gladly toss him into a death camp along with everyone else who isn't white.
 
Mumbles said:
Like many white supremacists, D'Souza really isn't very smart at all. His basic storyline (the dems are the real racists, look at what they did during the Gilded Age) is asinine, he has a long history of sneering at black and Hispanic people that only serve to make him a part of the racists that he pretends to stand against, even his crime was laughably stupid, and he's apparently unable to understand that the people he's pushing for would gladly toss him into a death camp along with everyone else who isn't white.
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Totally agree, and judging by the comments under the YT post, a lot of idiots agree with D'Sousa.
 
Maybe D'Souza should recall a vitriolic propaganda film called "2016: Obama's America" that some zealot made in 2012, and how those predictions turned out.
 
D'Souza is right that Democrats were the party in favor of racism and slavery in the 19th century. They supported the Jim Crow laws in the South. Southerner Woodrow Wilson even screened  Birth of a Nation in the White House. But all of that began to change, and the parties shifted roles in the 1960s, when Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. Nixon famously went after the strong entrenched racist element in the South, which is now solidly Republican. That happened precisely because Democrats cut the cord on their racist anchor and Republicans enthusiastically grabbed hold of it. Nixon's Southern Strategy worked, so we now have Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen singing praises of a Republican president.
 
Mumbles said:
Like many white supremacists...
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Yeah, doesn't one have to be white to be a white supremacist? And as you point out, maybe someone needs to tell him that if Trumptards had their way, he and his family would, if they were lucky, find themselves on a plane or boat back to wherever they came from. If they were not so lucky, well, the horrifying options are myriad.

Outside of that Chappel skit, which was brilliant for its implications, it still makes more sense than good old Dinesh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBC-9k3y1ew&frags=pl,wn
 
Copernicus said:
D'Souza is right that Democrats were the party in favor of racism and slavery in the 19th century. They supported the Jim Crow laws in the South. Southerner Woodrow Wilson even screened  Birth of a Nation in the White House. But all of that began to change, and the parties shifted roles in the 1960s, when Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. Nixon famously went after the strong entrenched racist element in the South, which is now solidly Republican. That happened precisely because Democrats cut the cord on their racist anchor and Republicans enthusiastically grabbed hold of it. Nixon's Southern Strategy worked, so we now have Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen singing praises of a Republican president.
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You're underselling it by roughly a century. The process actually began in the 1870s when Reconstruction ended, and by the 1900s we saw movements like the "Lily White Republicans", which was what it sounds like. In the 1960s Reagan and George HW Bush were openly campaigning in favor of segregation.

Regardless, I stand fully by what I said about D'Souza in my last post in this thread.
 
AAs started leaving the GOP after the great flood of 1927. They were promised reforms if they cooperated. Blacks were forced to work on the levees for no pay. Some were shot on the spot for refusing. Hoover was in charge and made the promises, but didn't follow through when elected prez.
 
I've tussled with more than one Conservative who can't wrap their head around the fact that the Democrats and the Republicans have made major shifts in policy. "Oh, you think Republicans are racist? Lincoln freed the slaves, so there!"

I tell them that if they can't handle what's happened in the US over the last 150 years, then their heads would literally explode if they moved to Australia. You know, the land where the Liberal Party is described as centre-right.

Paul Krugman has even said that it's interesting how conservative Democrats have become, in that they want to conserve decades-old institutions like Social Security and Medicare, whereas some Republicans want to burn everything to the ground because "Trump tells it like it is."
 
Dinesh D'Souza parlayed his race and conservatism into "punditry" for conservative media and then into a presidency of a pretentious no-name conservative Christian college only to lose his position because of his open adultery. Mr D'Souza is a joke who is straining to regain some credibility. Even though Trump pardoned him from his illegal campaign contributions conviction, D'Souza will remain an outsider for obvious reasons.
 
James Brown said:
I've tussled with more than one Conservative who can't wrap their head around the fact that the Democrats and the Republicans have made major shifts in policy. "Oh, you think Republicans are racist? Lincoln freed the slaves, so there!"
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I would try responding: Because the South was beaten by the Republican president, the South voted straight Democrat after the war. Is the South still solidly Democratic?

Wonder what kind of cognitive dissonance they would use to reason out of that?
 
A decade or so ago, I used to listen to NPR quite a bit. Kevin Phillips, for some years was an NPR commentator. On one of his commentaries I listened to, Phillips admitted his part in springing the "Southern Strategy" on America. And admitted that it soon devolved into rank racism. All of which he apologized for. I wish I had a transcript of that to waggle in the faces of the brain dead conservatives who swear that the GOP was never racist. It was a sobering moment for me. Kevin Phillips admitted it and apologized. But the others who were involved in this never have.
 
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James Brown said:
I've tussled with more than one Conservative who can't wrap their head around the fact that the Democrats and the Republicans have made major shifts in policy. "Oh, you think Republicans are racist? Lincoln freed the slaves, so there!"

I tell them that if they can't handle what's happened in the US over the last 150 years, then their heads would literally explode if they moved to Australia. You know, the land where the Liberal Party is described as centre-right.
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Lincoln isn't exactly considered a high bar these days, considering the many outright white supremacist things he said in his own life, including during the Civil War.

But I'll point out something that Bishop Talbert Swan said - all of this "dems are the real racists!" "No republicans are!" is a bunch of tomfoolery. If you're against racism, then it doesn't really matter much, you'll toss out a racist democrat, and at least hear out a republican who opposes racism. The fact that a white supremacist currently leads the GOP is a severe problem, but it's no excuse for bigotry among democrats.

Paul Krugman has even said that it's interesting how conservative Democrats have become, in that they want to conserve decades-old institutions like Social Security and Medicare, whereas some Republicans want to burn everything to the ground because "Trump tells it like it is."
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He's correct in many ways.
 
Lincoln, like so many abolitionists and their sympathizers in those days, was a white supremacist to begin with, even though he adamantly opposed slavery. It is arguably the case that he had changed a great deal by the end of his life, coming to understand how mistaken his earlier attitudes had been. Frederick Douglass considered Lincoln to treat him more as an equal than many abolitionists that he knew. However, it is arguably the case that Ulysses Grant was the least racist Republican in those days. He helped liberated slaves in the territories he conquered and worked to recruit black soldiers into the Union Army. By way of contrast, the Democrats were hand-in-hand with Klan during the Gilded Age. That does not mean that there were no white supremacist Republicans or abolitionist Democrats. The fact is that Democrats were still heavily invested in racism and Jim Crow when Woodrow Wilson was President. When LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act, he famously said that the Democrats had lost the South. Nixon pounced on it.
 
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