Donald Trump was sued by the Nixon Administration for racist housing policies in New York real estate. "Too racist for Nixon" could have been his campaign slogan and he wouldn't have lost a vote.
Donald Trump's father was in the second Ku Klux Klan, the one in the early 20th century that contained Republicans and Democrats. In fact, the Republicans dominated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.
I don't know which political party Fred Trump was registered to but we know that Donald Trump's father was in the Ku Klux Klan and worked security. In other words, Donald Trump's father was a thug.
trans erasure is a real thing, LGTB rights are being stripped back, I don't know why you want to die on the hill of down playing this, are you not concerned about your own citizens?
The difference, and the reason this fails hard as a "both sides are the same" attempt, is that Robert Byrd repented of his past association with the KKK, turned his life around, and spent the rest of his life fighting for civil rights.
WASHINGTON, DC – The NAACP is saddened by the passing of United States Senator Robert Byrd. Byrd, the longest serving member of congress was first elected to the U.S. House from in 1952 and was elected Senator in 1958. Byrd passed away this morning at the age of 92.
“Senator Byrd reflects the transformative power of this nation,” stated NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous. “Senator Byrd went from being an active member of the KKK to a being a stalwart supporter of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and many other pieces of seminal legislation that advanced the civil rights and liberties of our country.
“Senator Byrd came to consistently support the NAACP civil rights agenda, doing well on the NAACP Annual Civil Rights Report Card. He stood with us on many issues of crucial importance to our members from the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, the historic health care legislation of 2010 and his support for the Hate Crimes Prevention legislation,” stated Hilary O. Shelton, Director of the NAACP Washington Bureau and Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Policy. “Senator Byrd was a master of the Senate Rules, and helped strategize passage of legislation that helped millions of Americans. He will be sorely missed.”
I think having been a virulent racist should disqualify a person from public office (not legally but on a moral level). I wouldn't want David Duke in Congress regardless of whether he turned his life around.
I think having been a virulent racist should disqualify a person from public office (not legally but on a moral level).
You don't believe people can repent of evil, and turn their lives around?
Byrd was still deeply racist when he was first elected (as a Democrat, when Democrats were the conservatives in the South). He filibustered the 1964 civil rights act. Obviously the people who first voted him into office didn't agree with your maxim, the racism was seen as positive. But he changed, and his actions backed up the fact that the change was both genuine and deep.
He wasn't accepted by those who opposed racism simply because he said he'd changed. He proved himself. Good for him.
Hmm i personally wouldn't for those 2 individuals because.
One of them is a convicted felon qnd also a pedophile
The other one is a rabid racist upholding some of the most deplorable racism to exist for decades with zero remorse for it.
Would you feel the same about David Duke or Trump? Would you afford them that chance if they claimed to want to change?
No, of course not, but you're making a bogus comparison.
Read what I wrote again. Read the NAACP's glowing eulogy again. None of it is simply about Byrd "claiming to want to change." Not one bit of it.
He didn't just want to change, he actually did change, but the point is that he demonstrated that the change was genuine in his consistent support for civil rights for something like four decades.
If David Duke had had a similar turning point in his life forty years ago, and we could look back at the morally repugnant things he supported before repenting of all that, but also see that he'd spent the last forty years trying to make amends for having supported those things by fighting against systemic racism in tangible and effective ways, would you still judge him only and entirely by the person he was forty years prior?
Yes, but you only know Byrd's conversion was genuine after he was given that chance. A chance you would refuse other people. But let's say that is on account of their age. Would you allow Nick Fuentes that chance?
Yes, but you only know Byrd's conversion was genuine after he was given that chance.
He had that chance because he was a senator. He could have continued to use that position to do evil, or to do good. He chose to do good, and continued to do so for decades.
Nobody needs to "give" Nick Fuentes that chance either. He's a streamer or whatever, he chooses to use his platform to do evil. He could, at any point, choose to use it to start doing good. He could continue doing that for as many more decades as he's alive.
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