Thanks for posting this.
This article was published Nov 10th 2020.
Here’s a companion piece by the same author published on January 12th 2021.
You’re welcome; I’ve posted it a number of times since it was published.
You’re thanking him for what? Posting an extremely left-wing screed?
What happened about eleven months ago that didn’t happen ten years ago? I’ll give you all a hint: it happened in Washington D.C. and it was broadcast live on TV and internet.
With sociopaths like that running around, I’m starting to shop around for some protection myself.
? What’s “extremely left-wing” about describing the Trumpian attempts to overturn or invalidate the 2020 election as a “stupid coup”? That’s more or less the National Review’s take on the “stolen election” shenanigans, and they’re hardly “left-wing”.
From the “article”:
Our democracy was founded in 1965 by Black people? Really???
What is it with that statement that you take issue with, specifically?
The fact that it’s not based in reality.
I’d ask what year he thinks South Africa became a democracy, but I’m not sure I want to hear his answer.
I know; right?
This statement is laughably incorrect.
Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there
See?
So you believe the statement? Our democracy was founded in 1965 by Black people?
If you really subscribe to such silliness, there’s no point in engaging with you.
“Democracy” in the sense of actually having equal rights under the law for everybody irrespective of race? Yes, that’s a reasonable statement.
Are you really unaware that during nearly the first two hundred years of the United States’ existence its society was only very incompletely democratic, due to the disenfranchisement of Black people via slavery and legal segregation? (And a bunch of other white-supremacist discriminatory laws too, of course.)
Do you really not understand why it makes sense to say that democracy in the United States wasn’t actually fully implemented until after the Black-led civil rights movement in the 1960s?
If the US passed laws saying that you and other members of your particular ethnic group could be legally subjected to chattel slavery and/or kept as second-class citizens, would you really consider it “silly” to claim that that makes US society fundamentally undemocratic?
I swear, it’s as though conservatives these days actually pride themselves on not understanding anything about US political history and principles. Because knowing actual facts is “woke” or something, and they can’t have that, goodness no.
That’s not what the writer said, though.
That’s obviously what the writer meant, duh. Unless you really imagine that the writer is claiming that Washington and Jefferson and Adams and Franklin etc. were Black people living in the 1960s?
Yes, it’s quite reasonable to claim that actual democracy did not exist in the US until legally implemented racial discrimination was done away with (a process which is still arguably quite incomplete, moreover).
The nonsense that he wrote, (and that wasn’t the only part,) detracts from whatever argument he was trying to make.
Just because you didn’t understand what he wrote doesn’t make it “nonsense”. He was quite clearly drawing a distinction between an actual democratic society with universal franchise for all citizens and the pseudo-democracy based on racial hierarchy that prevailed in the US until at least the mid-20th century.
(And there’s not even anything particularly “left-wing” about acknowledging that distinction, much less “extremely left-wing”.)
Oh, I understand it. He’s an idiot. No rational person thinks that democracy was founded in 1965.
" Americans think they can just hammer on Joe Biden like CTRL-Z. CTRL-Z! CTRL-Z? and go back to the Obama era."
Meaningless nonsense.
America did not have universal adult suffrage under the law until 1965, and one party in this country is still actively trying to undo that.
This is not in dispute.
It IS in dispute, since it’s blatantly false.