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0xDEAFBEAD • yesterday at 4:12 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I don't think mumbling something about "historical baggage" justifies bad policy.

I appreciate you illustrating my point about the role "civil rights" plays in modern US political discourse.

Yearning for a day when self-identified "progressives" look to the future instead of obsessing about the past.


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datsci_est_2015 • yesterday at 4:24 PM

Yearning for a day when conservatives, whether they identify as one or not, recognize that there’s a rich history of human suffering under the yoke of conservative thought leaders that could be easily avoided if they just opened a history book. Or just read the news. Because there’s no interruption between the two. Jerry Jones is in the background of a photo of the Little Rock 9. Donald Trump led a hate campaign against the Central Park 5 in 1989. These are contemporary issues.

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