I dunno - I’ve seen some pretty epic takedowns like this one on a bunch of twitter threads.
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Kevin Williamson. Again.
The NRA shill who supports the interests of al-Qaeda re: the gun-show loophole. The same guy who compared a 9-year old African-American to a primate. The same guy who said women who have legal abortions and the doctors who perform them, ought to be hanged. The same guy who called Bernie Sanders, the son of Jewish immigrants whose family was murdered in the Holocaust, a Nazi. The same guy writing “a little sedition is an excellent thing” in a piece about Cliven Bundy. The guy who said we shouldn’t do anything about mass shootings because gun murders are incredibly rare; rare as in one mass shooting a week in America. That Kevin D. Williamson.
Hard to believe this guy keeps his job. Until you notice he writes for that white-supremacist pamphlet, the National Review.
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And he has a History degree from Trump University (on-line), which he’s very proud of. Said a gushing Kevin, “Only me and Bill (O’Reilly) have them!”
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Reagan also brought down the Berlin wall. Personally. With a pick-ax. Took him 22 hours.
Now that is history our school children can remember!
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Need to update that old saw: those who don’t know history are…bound to be Conservatives.
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You left out the he did it in the snow … after walking 11 miles uphill. He then walked 11 miles — uphill — in freezing temperatures back to his hotel, wearing only a sweater knitted for him by Maggie Thatcher.
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And wearing breadbags for shoes!
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“I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.” — John Stuart Mills
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omg that is such a bunch of crap. “Just don’t be such crude, obvious racists, you guys.”
I actually admire his stance on hanging abortion doctors and the women who obtain abortions. 99% of the people who scream “ABORTION IS MURDER” aren’t willing to take it to the very logical and obvious conclusion that if abortion is truly no different than murder, then both the person who committed the murder and the person who sanctioned and paid for the murder are equally guilty. Both should be subjected to the same punishment, lengthy prison terms including life, as well as capital punishment.
Or, stop saying ABORTION IS MURDER. Pick one. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t call something murder and then refuse to apply the punishment that our laws typically apply for murder.
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Lordy, lordy, I hates it when that damned memory hole malfs.
To be fair, Kevin Williamson did grow up in Texas so his grasp of history was shaped by his exposure to those Texas textbooks.
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For what it’s worth, only one Southern Democratic Senator voted for it either,Lyndon Johnson’s fellow Texan, Ralph Yarborough. He was a long time Senator and a liberal bad ass.
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Though the right misleadingly implies that pretty much every Republican voted for it (which theoretically could have made for a majority of the “yeas”; but I quibble), and of course that Northern liberal wing of the GOP, as you suggest, no longer exists.
But yeah, Nixon: civil rights hero and father of the Southern strategy. SNL’s old Shimmer ad (“It’s a floor wax AND a dessert topping!”) was more realistic. And you’re spot-on about his being driven by political convenience – to the extent that he cared about substantive issues at all, it was foreign policy that engaged him; he couldn’t have cared less about domestic policy. Hence his creation of the EPA and other stuff that has today’s GOP putting him in the “liberal” column: if a policy was politically popular (which most things liberal were, even labeled as such, before movement conservatism’s propaganda machine really got rolling in the late 1970s), he was perfectly willing to appropriate it.
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Excuse me, “the FACT of Negro backwardness”? Say, what???
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so basically Kevin D. Williamson = intellectually incompetent or dishonest or both
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And modern feminism started with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Or was it with the new “republican woman” in the early days of the republic? And the gay liberation movement started in the early 50’s with the Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitis. Or was it in Germany in the Weimar era?
Of course things never happen overnight. At a certain point the preliminary groundwork paves the way for the big sea change when things all come together and really get rolling. (Stop that metaphor!)
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Don’t anyone kid themselves, The National Review people know the true facts of history or they wouldn’t know to distort them. Besides, they are preaching to the choir, the Republicans are the only ones that don’t want to believe their own past, everyone else knows and that’s why they aren’t Republicans, at least partially.
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Republicans (I refuse to call them the “Grand Old Party”) have made a fine art out of rewriting, changing, obfuscating, and just downright lying about history. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve seen right-wingers refer to how the Democrats were the racists opposing Civil Rights, and the Republicans were the champions of Civil Rights. All bullshit.
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This proves that Twitter is not the ideal platform for considered argument.
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