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Re:They Thought They Were Free, by Milton Mayer, an Excerpt by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @04:05AM (#42945927)
> In 1942 there were 110,000 Japanese-American citizens, in good standing, law abiding people, who were thrown into internment camps simply because their parents were born in the wrong country. That's all they did wrong. They had no right to a lawyer, no right to a fair trial, no right to a jury of their peers, no right to due process of any kind. The only right they had was...right this way! Into the internment camps.

> Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most...their government took them away. and rights aren't rights if someone can take em away. They're priveledges. That's all we've ever had in this country is a bill of TEMPORARY priviledges; and if you read the news, even badly, you know the list get's shorter, and shorter, and shorter.

George Carlin, years ago. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1242679-boy-everyone-in-thi...

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Re:They Thought They Were Free, by Milton Mayer, an Excerpt by sirtaj on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:14AM (#42946457)
From the outside, it continues to surprise me when people bring this up, as if they're either too ignorant to know about the Dixiecrat schism or want to pretend that everyone else is. What's the point? It's so easy to look up.
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Re:They Thought They Were Free, by Milton Mayer, an Excerpt by immibis on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @08:05AM (#42947934)
It's just propaganda, optics, PR. Obviously the Democrat party in 1940 has absolutely no relation to the Democrat party in 2025, except for the name. People use that same name to smear the 2025 party because they can. And it works because propaganda works. That's how Germany got Hitler and it's how the USA got Elon.
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Re:They Thought They Were Free, by Milton Mayer, an Excerpt by tomohawk on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:11PM (#42954435)
That's a big lie. We know who the dixiecrats were. The vast majority of them stayed in the Democrat party their entire lives.

Some of them, like Senator Byrd were lauded by Hillary Clinton as a big influence.

I can't wait until the Democrat party finally pays out reparations to all of the descendents of people they enslaved.

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