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Viral ‘Last Breath Of The Confederacy’ Speech Puts Louisiana Man On Political Map
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Complete misrepresentation of what I said, but since you've been intent on missing the point this whole conversation then I'm not going to bother trying to get it through to you. Feel free to keep pushing successive generations of young people into the extremist camps, I'm sure that won't come back to bite you on the ass.
It seems we're having a lag anyway, because you seem to be stuck in an era from at least few years ago when you could rely on cheap clichés, virtue signaling, and confirmation bias to accuse any white guy of being racist for no reason at all to bait him into getting defensive so that you can use his defensiveness to double down on calling him racist. People see through that shit now, and you haven't caught on yet.
And honestly, I really don't care anymore. You've pushed so damn many potential allies over the edge that quite frankly it's hard to sympathize. We cared about what's right, we wanted to contribute to a good cause. You chose to use us as punching bags instead of working together. I hope you feel empowered, cause I'm focused on my own shit now.