Discussion: At Event For Black Civil War Soldiers, Zinke Likens Robert E. Lee To MLK Jr

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What ? He didn’t bring a black-face minstrel show for entertainment ?

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“I like to think that Lincoln doesn’t have his back to General Lee. He’s in front of him,” Zinke said. “There’s a difference. Similar to Martin Luther King doesn’t have his back to Lincoln. He’s in front of Lincoln as we march together to form a more perfect union.”

King is to Lincoln as Lincoln is to Lee?

Even for a Zinke pronouncement, it’s preposterous.

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What a moron. Statements like that may play to his base, or to Montana. where blacks comprise .06% of the population. But comparing a man defending slavery to… Moronic.

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Zinke -"…as we march together to form a more perfect union.”
Great. And who does Zinke think personifies that more than Donald Trump?

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Only a single chromosome separated Hitler from Mother Theresa!!!

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This was done 100% knowingly and intentionally.

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Not only did he throw Lee in with Lincoln and King, but the whole metaphor doesn’t even make sense.

Resign, Zinke. You’re not only corrupt, you’re stupid.

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Excuse me Zinkey, but could you clarify this for me. Using your ‘logic’ who’s marching in front, Custer or Sitting Bull?

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I haven’t anything else to add. Mr. Russell has perfectly summed up the offense, and the distinction between the achievements of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the crimes of Robert E. Lee.

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Being both corrupt and stupid is kind of a prerequisite for working in the Trump malministration.

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Set aside for a moment the moronic comparison.

This was at an event that honored people for the very fact that they were willing to give their lives to fight against Robert E. Lee.

This is like going to Normandy Beach and praising Hitler for being so Churchill-like.

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This is like saying that Lee and Fredrick Douglass were BFF. It isn’t just unseemly and insulting. It’s idiotic.

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I think the whole “winners get to write the history” thing is a bit premature…

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Custer and Sitting Bull? Brothers of a different mother- and the purpose of history is to minimize treason, and coat it w a gauzy, self justifying nostalgia.

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Zinke is revealing himself as only the Dotard’s jester.

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This is a statement that manages not only to be offensive, but it doesn’t make any sense even by the standards of its own white supremacist worldview. I don’t even know what Zinke thinks he was trying to say.

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Either he is that stupid, which is possible, or he is that calculating - in either case the only response possible is WTF?

Zink is going to find himself in hot water when the Dems take over the House.

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Basically, Zinke is saying slavery is equal to freedom, which is all equal to full civil rights. Down is up, up is down. Crazy you say?

Actually, just typical propaganda that equalizes everything. Not far different from whataboutism or “white lives matter”. Does not stick to a point, always moving the boundaries of discussion around so those boundaries are diffuse and focus on the issues disappear.

Then they can get back to the rich raping the country without consequence, because what’s the issue?

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Feeling liberated during this era of Trump, Zinke and his ilk are simply expressing ideas they’ve long embraced and expressed to each other inside the right-wing information sewer,

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