(03-07-2020, 04:37 PM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(03-07-2020, 03:34 PM)mikesez Wrote: That red text you added is pure sophistry.
Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic Party in about 1796.
The first black codes or slave codes in effect in English speaking North America were written more than 150 years before that.
Trying to blame really old and really complicated stuff on the party you don't like, simply because you don't like them, is what dumb people do when they're trying to sound smart. In other words, sophistry.

And it was white men who captured the Africans and sold them into slavery? Any other fairy tales you want to support?

The Democrat Party may not have created slavery in America, but they were the party that defended it and then relegated black Americans to second class citizens after slavery was abolished.

Where do you get off on this first paragraph?
I didn't blame white people for anything.
But if the transaction is immoral, the buyer and the seller are both immoral. The John does not get to blame the pimp, nor does the pimp get to blame the John.

This little sub thread started because somebody connected racism to the founding of the Democratic Party. I have already shown that this is fallacious. now you're moving the goal posts and discussing other ways that Democrats kept black people down later in history. While your argument is at least factually accurate, it is not very persuasive for how we should vote today because it's dealing with stuff that was about 60 years old, 15 presidential election cycles, all of the politicians who followed that pattern are dead, and irrelevant.

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