• morphballganon@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Can’t say for sure about that, since we weren’t there, but we are here now, and you can bet humanitarian and progressive voices are ridiculed today.

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      5 months ago

      I can say for certain that they were, having read a book besides Harry Potter.

      Shit, some American pre-Civil War slaver beat an abolitionist to death in Congress and got cheered for it in the South.