GOP Suffers from Massive Amnesia. Celebrates Commie Terrorist Freedom Hater Nelson Mandela.

[evildevil]

Fight the right-washing of Nelson Mandela’s legacy Much of the American right supported apartheid, almost to the bitter end. Why we must remember that

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[hammersxstrings]

Amazingly, the Republican Party has moved backward while the world moved forward.

i see nothing surprising about the regressive nature of the Republican party. that's been their precedent for awhile now, imo.

(i do admit, mostly tl;dr for everything but those last few paragraphs though, so if i read that in the wrong context, I rescind the comment. kind of lol)

[wrestlingdog]

I can hardly believe this racist shit I've been seeing on FB. Pisses me off to no fucking end.

[moonshaz]

Amazingly, the Republican Party has moved backward while the world moved forward.

Ikr? And I just find it so bizarre. But I guess whenever there is major change in the world, there are those who bitterly oppose it, wanting to go back to the "good old days," whatever those were. And in the present time, in the U.S., the Republican Party seems to have become the lifeboat that those people--or at least a substantial percentage of them--are clinging to.

It's weird in a way, watching them scramble desperately to hold on to...whatever it is they're trying to hold on to. Because, ultimately, it's not going to work. They may be able to slow things down, and those on the other side need to fight against that. But ultimately, their stuggle to take everything back to the 1950s is a doomed one. I really do believe that.

[lovedforaday]

it's interesting watching fox news tiptoe around the Mandela issue. they have to cover his death and praise him, but not too much since a good portion of their audience hate him. plus if they cover mandela too much that icky fact about reagan backing the SA government might have to be brought up.

[nicosian]

I've seen a considerable amount of butthurt from some that Mandela dared fight for rights, as if by being nice and polite and meek and simply ASKING, they'd have ended apartheid if only he was a bit more polite. It reads to me as "if he just kept to his place like he was told...."

The amount of privilege wafting from some is a profound stench indeed.

Top off with some of the right's harebrained comparisons of their petty struggles to this and its time for history lessons that are accompanied by perhaps, a smack to the head until they sink in.

[beoweasel]

I've seen a considerable amount of butthurt from some that Mandela dared fight for rights, as if by being nice and polite and meek and simply ASKING, they'd have ended apartheid if only he was a bit more polite. It reads to me as "if he just kept to his place like he was told...."

Does the Sharpeville Massacre ring any bells?

[nicosian]

I confess it didn't for me..so I went and read up. my knowledge/memory of South Africa and Mandela and anti apartheid issues is terribly sketchy at best but y'know, there's resources upon which one can inform oneself.

I only remember it being a big issue with people sanctioning the government in the media ( the Sun City video of my childhood is about ALL i remember, I was only maybe 12 when it was abolished.it was never a topic ever discussed in school either.)

The Sharpeville Massacre: that's horrendous.