gtyellowjacket
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I think if folks are going to continue to smear the legacy of someone who did an awful lot for advancing civil rights, it matters quite a bit if he said it.
Five years since George Floyd
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superrific
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Oh, I see. the bee thinks that LBJ was describing his own political strategy, not the strategy that produced segregation. All right then.
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Nah, he doesn’t think that. It’s just how he constructs his contrarianism to drive the thread into the ditch.
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Wait...you think the quote - via Moyers or whoever else - purports to be LBJ describing his *own* political strategy?
If so, wow. Big miss on your part.
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See, this is how it always happens.
Someone mentions that racial animus distracts from the basic material struggles and common cause that cross race lines, and within 10 seconds we're talking about "Smearing the good name of LBJ."
Never fails.
Someone mentions that racial animus distracts from the basic material struggles and common cause that cross race lines, and within 10 seconds we're talking about "Smearing the good name of LBJ."
Never fails.
gtyellowjacket
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You may be confusing Super saying that I felt like it was LBJ's political strategy with me actually claiming it was LBJ's political strategy. Easy mistake to make.
What I did claim was despite someone attributing that quote to LBJ, there is very little evidence he actually said it. I don't think it's right for people to smear a giant for a possibly made up or misremembered or out of context quote when he did so much for civil rights.
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It wouldn't be a "smear" on LBJ if he was saying it about other people, now would it?
You're dissembling.
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Shocking.
gtyellowjacket
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It could be. You must admit that people have used quotes like this attributed to LBJ as evidence that he was a racist who only cared about getting votes vs doing right.
And maybe I jumped the gun. LBJ is one of my favorite presidents, even with his flaws, so I can get a bit defensive.
superrific
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Nobody in the history of the world has ever made the mistake of confusing you for me. Nobody ever will. It would be like watching some pickup ball and confusing Kendall Marshall with Kendall Jenner.