Politics
Out of context: Reply #31718
- Started
- Last post
- 33,769 Responses
- allthethings2
In Wisconsin, Virus Creates New Front in Long-Simmering Partisan Wars
Protests planned for Friday continue a decade-long partisan cleaving in the state and serve as a stand-in for the general election battle to come.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/…
excerpt:
Brian Westrate, the treasurer of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, posted to a private Facebook group for organizers and some attendees of the Madison rally, asking people not to bring emblems of causes other than resisting the stay-at-home order.
“Ok folks, I implore you, please leave Confederate flags and/or AR15s, AK47s, or any other long guns at home,” Mr. Westrate wrote. “I well understand that the Confederacy was more about states rights than slavery. But that does not change the truth of how we should try to control the optics during the event.”
- Confederacy was about states rights to practice slavery, which was illegal. It was about the states right to allow whites racists to thrive.monospaced
- It was about slavery and nothing else.monospaced
- Treasurer of the Republican Party of Wisconsin asking people to leave their AK47s at home. Nope, nothing strange about this here!********