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WhiskeyGrinder

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7. To clarify...
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 02:35 PM
Jun 2020
We need to stop arguing with each other and join together and go to the mansion we built.


Makes it sound like this is a "both sides" issue when it really isn't. "Joining together" requires that one side to at the very least come to terms with the fact that it fell for the big lie that looking down on someone else was worth it:

I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

-- LBJ


It's a lot more work than you make it sound like, that's all.
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Poor white people STILL want to live on their side of the river. Laelth Jun 2020 #3
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True. Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #8
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. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2020 #14
Exactly. Solly Mack Jun 2020 #12
It's insidious and hard to unlearn. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2020 #15
Exactly, again. Solly Mack Jun 2020 #16
Fair enough point, but futile. maxsolomon Jun 2020 #9
The Rs have successfully pitted the poor DeminPennswoods Jun 2020 #13
Where specifically is the wrong place we're currently looking? gollygee Jun 2020 #17
Agreed BannonsLiver Jun 2020 #18
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