cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34807594

Lindsey Halligan, the White House official leading a review of the Smithsonian Institution, said you “can’t really talk about slavery honestly unless you talk about hope and progress” during a Newsmax appearance on Wednesday.

  • WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    Hey, Americans. You’re all complicit as long as these people feel safe leaving their homes every day.

    By all means, though- don’t do anything. Just, you know, post a sad little defensive reply to make yourselves feel better.

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      Sure. Let me rot in jail to take of the one person that represents all the assholes that will still be alive and share his beliefs. That checks out.

      It sucks, but this pain teaches the future generations how god-damned crazy they sound. It’s not an overnight fix. It’s going to take decades.

      It would in fact be better if a foreign country took care of it.

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        2 hours ago

        Utter cowardice.

        “We’re going to spend three or four decades being belligerent shitheads to the rest of the world when they tell us exactly what is going to happen, and when they’re proven right we’re going to depend on them to save us from ourselves. Meanwhile, we’re going to keep congratulating ourselves for our revolutionary, victory-against-great-odds heritage.”

        On brand for Americans.

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          I never said anything about my heritage. Or justifying idiotic racists. I live in one place. I raise a kid. I can’t just drop everything and go on a tirade to save everyone. Neither can anyone else. Saying it’s “cowardice” shows how disconnected you are from reality. Not everyone has the means to make change other than being a good example and showing other they are being dick heads when they are being dick heads.

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        17 hours ago

        “Barely discriminate murderers,” everyone:

        But hey, at least you’re great at following instructions.

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          12 hours ago

          Has no skin in the game, does nothing himself, blames everybody else for inaction.

          How’s that latest edition of Internet tough guy? Good read?