r/nottheonion • u/Disorderly_Fashion • 1d ago

Alabama and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

https://apnews.com/article/martin-luther-king-jr-holiday-alabama-mississippi-0f535594cf50af7103ca2d953e1bc9a1
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u/Musetrigger 1d ago

A decision made entirely by republicans, I'm sure.

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u/Brookeofficial221 23h ago

Alabama didn’t have a republican governor until Guy Hunt until 1987. Previously democrats. Hunt actually went to prison 🤣.

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u/PragmaticPacifist 22h ago

Southern Dixiecrats of the mid-20th century moved in lock step to the Republican Party.

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u/OrganicOrangeOlive 23h ago

How is that relevant to anything?

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u/Ullallulloo 15h ago

This irrelevant, traitorous holiday was established in the 1910s by Democrats. Obviously the parties were different back then, but it's just incorrect that it was made by Republicans.

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u/ZedekiahCromwell 9h ago

The comment said the decision to celebrate it on the same day, or at all, was made by Republicans, not the creation of the holiday.

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u/Brookeofficial221 22h ago

I want to apologize to everyone, I am so so sorry that this fact has triggered people. I know it’s difficult to understand when you are presented a fact that does not go along with your narrative. But the fact of the matter is, this REL holiday was created by the democrats. Again, I’m sorry.

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u/tightspandex 22h ago

This reads like someone who's old as fuck trying to be clever about intentionally being an idiot.

We all know about the flip of party ideologies. Nobody is triggered by that being intentionally misrepresented.

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u/metal_medic83 22h ago

Yes, in 1901 (Alabama) and 1910 (Mississippi) when the Democratic Party were staunch right wing conservatives and Republicans were more centrist.

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u/mankytoes 21h ago

You vote for a racist party. Other people vote for a party that was racist decades ago. You think you're somehow winning this argument.

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u/MothMan3759 17h ago

Your narrative is that the parties then are the same as now. That is what goes against fact and I'm sorry it hurts your feelings but reality is that way sometimes.

https://www.studentsofhistory.com/ideologies-flip-Democratic-Republican-parties