Republican Rep. William Hurd disinvited from Black Hat conference

Re:Republican Rep. William Hurd disinvited from Black Hat co... by bryanlarsen on Friday June 21, 2019 @08:39AM (#20241956)

That's a great example of a cherry-picked graph.

Start the graph in the 60's and you'll get a very different graph. The standard narrative is that Clinton shifted the party to the right, and it's now returning to where it was in the LBJ days.

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Re:Republican Rep. William Hurd disinvited from Black Hat co... by bryanlarsen on Friday June 21, 2019 @08:53AM (#20242065)

Here's a graph that starts in 1948: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fairness-vs-freedom-is-...

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Re:Republican Rep. William Hurd disinvited from Black Hat co... by merpnderp on Friday June 21, 2019 @08:56AM (#20242089)

LBJ days? Are you kidding? When Democrat cities beat gay people in the streets and then threw them in jail? When the Democrat President was an open racist? You picked LBJ, when the Democrats still had segregationist, who fought against things like interracial marriage, were elected in office? You think that’s to the left of Clinton? Hell, given the moves to segregate colleges these days, maybe you’re right.

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Re:Republican Rep. William Hurd disinvited from Black Hat co... by bryanlarsen on Friday June 21, 2019 @12:06PM (#20243751)

Yes, the LBJ that passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Immigration and Nationality Act, the gun control act, declared a war on poverty, greatly expanded welfare, et cetera.

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