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100 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 20 Jun \ parent \ on: The Problem with Juneteenth econ

I’d say the insult was almost certainly the point.

55 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undergotten 20 Jun

I just truly can't understand why.

31 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 20 Jun

People resent having things forced on them, even if the thing itself is not bad. That results in backlash.

In America, every advancement of freedom and rights for Black people has resulted in backlash. I guess because it has had to be forced on the majority through the laws they wrote. They shouldn't have wrote all that freedom and liberty stuff if they didn't mean it.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 21 Jun

People have a hard time living up to their own professed ideals.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 21 Jun

In america, we should be more accepting of minorities. Especially people that we have wronged.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @TNStacker 21 Jun

You would think so with all the liberty and justice for all language in the founding documents and proclamations.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 21 Jun

The founding document... I feel it is a piece of paper that means almost nothing now. Everything is encroaching on those 10 freeedoms.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 20 Jun

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