All true - Lincoln was even known to tell "darky" jokes in public, complete with dialect - but also incontestibly true that Lincoln's career & even his strategic pandering to racist voter sentiment resulted in immeasurable improvement of the lives of black Americans.https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1151120979348852736 …
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Under today's 'woke' ethos, of course, we could have zero tolerance for a politician like Lincoln who always balanced meeting the voters where they were - even frankly racist voters - & working to make the world better according to his principles.
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Douglass was talking about how he treated black people personally. Read the rest of the thread.
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People who complain about things said in the context of 20 years ago have a tendency to forget that Lincoln lived in 1860s, and that 1860 was different than 2019.
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And both this, add the pursuing of policies that improve the lives of minorities, sounds strangely reminiscent of Trump.
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