Depending on how the next four years go I'm on the fence between Bush Jr. and Trump but I'd like to hear from you

  • KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
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    7 hours ago

    Woodrow Wilson was so racist that he was quoted in an epigraph for "The Birth of a Nation." You know, the 1915 movie about how awesome the KKK was, which became the first true "blockbuster" film and which led to a huge resurgence in KKK activity. Not only that, but Woodrow Wilson also personally invited the filmmakers to screen the movie in the White House - the first movie ever screened in the White House, by the way. Honorable mention!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation#/media/File:Wilson-quote-in-birth-of-a-nation.jpg

    • TheLastHero [none/use name]
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      3 hours ago

      As well as hating black people he also hated Slavs too and laid the foundations for anti-soviet US foreign policy

      • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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        47 minutes ago

        what? He gave the Slavic nations self-determination, there are roads named after him in e.g. Czechia, Slovakia; and wtf is bad about anti-Soviet foreign policy?

        • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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          13 minutes ago

          He gave the Slavic nations self-determination

          Absurd claim. Slavic nations risen due to collapse of the three european empires in WWI.