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I just read one of the dumbest statements on Reddit. Someone said and got massively upvoted for saying, "The majority of Confederate statues were erected in the 1960s."

posted 281 days ago by Mpetey123 281 days ago by Mpetey123 +47 / -0

This wasn't even questioned. These people really do believe garbage.

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– Gizortnik 19 points 281 days ago +19 / -0

It's not even sort of true by their own narrative. The Progressives in the Wilson era had put up tons of them.

They are attempting to make everyone think that Republicans, explicitly Goldwater, put up all the statues only when the South started to move to the right.

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– realerfunction 7 points 280 days ago +7 / -0

the more i hear of goldwater, the more based he sounds.

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– Gizortnik 4 points 280 days ago +4 / -0

Read "The Consience of a Conservative" for more details on his position.

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