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[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 69 points 10 months ago

John Brown is the person liberals think Lincoln was.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For any comrades who have any slight brainworms about thinking Lincoln was good, please read "Black Reconstruction in America" by W.E.B. Du Bois

Sure he was better than what followed, but that's no high bar. He was still working to destroy radical reconstruction and went laughably soft on traitorous states.

He also had a weird fixation with shipping off all these new free people to some Caribbean island because he didn't want to deal with them.

[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago

And his party platform was to gradually eliminate slavery by settling western states as free. You know, by genociding the people that lived there.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

Another example of liberals making their heroes out to be greater than they were while pretending the radicals that made far more of an effort never existed. FDR gets the same treatment as Lincoln, as well as JFK and LBJ.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

He also had a weird fixation with shipping off all these new free people to some Caribbean island because he didn't want to deal with them.

He would’ve loved post WWII

[-] ChunkaLutaNetwork@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

You can also add in how Grant and Lincoln were well known Indian killers

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago
[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 42 points 10 months ago

How is Henry Kissinger still alive but this hero deceased.

Oh wait. michael-laugh

[-] D61@hexbear.net 35 points 10 months ago

john-brown

I would sooner take my gun and help drive you out of the country.

:narrator:

And then he did...

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 34 points 10 months ago
[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago
[-] Selkie@lemm.ee 23 points 10 months ago

He is the one and only American hero

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago
[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

Damn all but two murdered by the state, directly or indirectly

Death to America

[-] Selkie@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Shit good point, only white American hero?

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago
[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago

:john-brown-shining:

[-] charly4994@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

I just sorta realized that the US Civil War was within living memory still when Kissinger was born and that this exchange with John Brown is still closer to Kissinger's birth than his death was. Like imagine some kid born today would have a similar distance to Vietnam that he did with the US Civil War.

[-] sharkfucker420@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

omfg we need a :smug_john_brown: emote

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

Reminds me of how Billy the Kid felt more belonging when he was with Mexicans and Native Americans

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