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Historian of, and advocate for, American student activism. CUNY prof.

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    1. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

      Okay, so now I'm watching Biden's eulogy for Strom Thurmond. And yes, I'm gonna livetweet. (And no, it's not happening now.) https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4678933/biden-eulogy-strom-thurmond …

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    2. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

      At Strom Thurmond's funeral Biden said Thurmond was "born into an era of essentially unchallenged and unexamined mores of the South." (Narrator: Thurmond was born in 1902, a few months before the publication of Du Bois' Souls of Black Folk.)

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    3. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

      Biden says that at each stage of his life "Strom represented exactly where he came from." So much for personal accountability.

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    4. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

      Biden tells a joke in his Strom Thurmond eulogy about a guy coming up to Thurmond wanting to fight him because of his racism. (The guy who wants to punch Strom Thurmond is the butt of the joke.)

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    5. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

      "I disagreed deeply with Strom Thurmond on the issue of civil rights and many other issues, but I watched him change. We became good friends." (Thurmond never actually renounced his white supremacist views.)https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/12/the-legend-of-strom-s-remorse.html …

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    6. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

      "Like all of us, Strom was a product of his time." DRINK!

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    7. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

      "This is a man who in 1947 the New York Times ran a lead editorial [on], saying 'Strom Thurmond, Hope of the South,' and talked about how he had set up reading programs [to] get better books for separate but equal schools."

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      Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

      Yes, that's Joe Biden, in 2003, calling the South Carolina public schools of 1947 "separate but equal." For real. It's at 8:45 in the clip. Watch for yourself.

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        2. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

          (Also, it wasn't an editorial, it was an op-ed. By a Southern politician. And it didn't call Thurmond "the Hope of the South." In fact, it only mentioned him briefly.)https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/02/02/93787138.html?pageNumber=162 …

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        3. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

          Biden mentions his friendship with Senator John Stennis, another white supremacist.

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        4. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

          Mentions John Stennis calling him "son," a timely shout-out today.

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        5. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

          Biden relates a story of a dying John Stennis repudiating his opposition to the civil rights movement in a private conversation with him. He has no such story to tell of his friend Strom Thurmond.

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        6. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

          "When partisanship was a winning option, he chose friendship." The idea that personal friendship transcends not only politics but also ideology and moral disagreement is a recurring theme—in this eulogy, and in Biden's thoughts on the subject generally.

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        7. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

          "The powerful and lasting impact he had on his beloved South Carolina and on his nation is Strom's legacy, his gift to all of us." Wow.

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        8. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

          To claim that Thurmond underwent a moral transformation at the end of his life is—to be generous—debatable. To claim that the net impact of his words and actions on the United States was positive is unconscionable.

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        9. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

          I don't personally begrudge or condemn Biden's friendship with Thurmond. And I can understand the impulse to eulogize a deeply flawed friend. But this isn't just a eulogy. It's a political rehabilitation.

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        10. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

          One thing we know about Joe Biden is that he understands himself as moral, in all situations, at all times. That's why he understands every criticism of him as a scurrilous attack on his character.

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        11. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

          When he was criticized for his behavior around women and girls, his was response was to say "I’m not sorry for any of my intentions. I’m not sorry for anything that I’ve ever done."

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        12. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

          When asked tonight whether he would apologize for his remarks about segregationists, as Cory Booker had called on him to do, he said "there's not a racist bone in my body," even though Booker hadn't accused him of racism.

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        13. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

          And so with his his friendships with white supremacist politicians. He will say he disagreed with them, that he fought with them, but not that they were racists, not that they committed evil acts.

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        14. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 19 Jun 2019

          Given the option of either condemning James Eastland or condemning Cory Booker for asking him to condemn James Eastland, Biden is going to take the latter course every time.

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        15. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 20 Jun 2019

          This morning I've been thinking more about Biden's eulogy for Thurmond and his various other speeches and comments about his collegiality with white supremacists, and something hit me.

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        16. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 20 Jun 2019

          Even when he describes close, decades-long friendship with these men, he never tells a story in which he privately confronts them with his opposition to their support for white supremacy.

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        17. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 20 Jun 2019

          The argument is "I can work with them because I get along with them," not "I can change their minds because they respect me and I'm willing to challenge them."

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        18. Angus Johnston‏Verified account @studentactivism 20 Jun 2019

          That strikes me as really telling.

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