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JustAnotherGen

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7. No

Reply to Tesha (Original post)

Tue Jun 24, 2025, 01:14 PM

Jun 24

Whatever the case, when their moment of realization comes, we must be ready to embrace them, and to weep with them for what they’ve lost

We've done this before. And it unleashed a hundred years of Jim Crow in America, and another sixty of not being able to call it out in polite society.

Nope - never. They need to sit with their discomfort and we need to ostracize them the same way post WW2 Germany did.

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There's room for them at our table [View all] Tesha Jun 24 OP

He told them all along what he was going to do. They voted for him because that Autumn Jun 24 #1

I'm not giving them a pass Tesha Jun 24 #2

Hard to maintain a facade of nostalgia EYESORE 9001 Jun 24 #3

I have to go to a large family gathering in August Bettie Jun 24 #4

I don't want Maw 'n' Paw Stumpjump from Squalor Holler in our party. Aristus Jun 24 #5

Because you need their votes? Tesha Jun 24 #6

They won't vote for us JustAnotherGen Jun 24 #8

This. Aristus Jun 24 #9

No JustAnotherGen Jun 24 #7