Americans can't say they "didn't know" about colonialism, imperialism, and racism. You were told by Martin, by Malcolm, by numerous Black and Indigenous voices naming the cost in blood and prison. Propaganda worked because it offered a deal: comfort over justice, order over truth, innocence over accountability. Social media didn't reveal reality. It just destroyed plausible deniability.
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[–] 15 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Please, show me someone, anyone, who says they "didn't know" about these things

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    I think some people assume that conservatives are what they are because of ignorance and not malice.

    That is what liberals have told themselves to sleep at night basically ever since FDR died.

    You know, like how Biden rationalized being friends with Strom Thurmond.

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