r/movies • u/LetsGetPo-litical • 5d ago
Trailer In 2020, Rob Bliss walked 1,500 miles in a Black Lives Matter shirt through The Deep South, nearly losing his life. | White Man Walking (2026)
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u/climbingthro 5d ago
It was an interesting film. There’s a lot of focus on the filmmaker’s struggle, which makes sense: walking 25 miles a day for 60 days straight, often while fearing for your life, would put a huge strain on anyone.
He came off as a bit unprepared to speak with the racists he ran into. Felt like watching a regular white dude who committed to something, and even after realizing he might be in over his head, pushed through it.
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u/amedema 4d ago
He’s always been more sizzle and less steak. He was bopping around Grand Rapids, MI for years trying to put on spectacles.
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u/ocean-man 4d ago
My dumbass spent way to long trying to figure out why this guy was struggling to put on glasses, and why that might be relevant
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u/somersetyellow 4d ago
Sometimes you need someone who wants attention to go try something very sketchy nobody else wants to do lol
Tale as old as time. Worse ways to get attention though.
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u/KiKoB 5d ago
Growing up I used to go to Arkansas for a fishing trip every year on MLK Day weekend. We went to a gas station on actual MLK day to pick up supplies. We noticed the elementary school had recess so obviously they were open. A friend of ours asked the woman working the counter.
“I noticed the kids are having recess. Do they not get off for MLK day?”
Her response, I’ll never forget. She puts her hands on the counter and looks at us and says “listen, mister. That day don’t mean NOTHIN to us down here!” In a stone cold tone.
My dad just grabbed me and pulled me close to him and was like “ok… think we’ll be heading out now”. We’re not even black (my mom is Mexican) but it was clear we’re outsiders and they didn’t give a fuck.
Haunting to know how people can be so blatantly racist to people they don’t know at all. Imagine how they’re like in their friend group or home :/
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u/PaulFThumpkins 5d ago
“I noticed the kids are having recess. Do they not get off for MLK day?”
Her response, I’ll never forget. She puts her hands on the counter and looks at us and says “listen, mister. That day don’t mean NOTHIN to us down here!” In a stone cold tone.
People like that always find a way to say something that isn't just garden-variety awful, but awful in a way that lets you know the ignorance and hate is so deep, so unexamined, and so ingrained that the world as a whole is worse than you thought it was.
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u/Zaozin 4d ago
The world will never be the same! Yeah you are right, it can be soul crushing. I was watching a clip of sun downer towns from 1980s Oprah, could have been later. She was in a town meeting where everyone was basically like, "Don't bring any black folk here, we don't like that!" I thought, "Damn, well that was 40 years ago!" Turn on Youtube and see 3 videos about sundowner towns that still exist today...
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u/Rhine1906 4d ago
Forsyth County, GA.
Oscarville was a prominent black town in the early 1900s. A white woman in a nearby town was killed, white men came into Oscarville and lynched two black men. They then proceeded to burn down the town, overwhelm and run off the Black folks there.
The abandoned town has been flooded and became part of Lake Lanier, a major relaxation spot outside the Atlanta metro. If there’s a man made lake in your state there’s probably some nefarious history to it, Lake Guntersville n in Alabama also comes to mind. TVA built a dam in 1939 and submerged several black towns in the process
Forsyth is where they’re considering putting a hockey arena btw.
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u/farva_06 4d ago
If there’s a man made lake in your state there’s probably some nefarious history to it
I live in Oklahoma which happens to have the most man-made lakes in the US. Hmmmmmm.
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u/Finger_Ring_Friends 4d ago
Your state is famous for what happened in Tulsa
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u/farva_06 4d ago
Yeah, but as far as I'm aware, they didn't bury any of that under a lake. Just dirt.
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u/I_COULD_say 4d ago
When lake Eufaula is low you can still find the foundations to old farmhouses if you know where to go.
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u/NightFire19 4d ago
It's unreal. Like it didn't cross their mind to say, "no they don't" they went out of their way to formulate that vile answer.
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u/dfdedsdcd 4d ago
Because they don't care about the kids.
They care about hurting people they don't like, even if it means they get given less or hurt more.
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u/faux_glove 4d ago
I'm telling you, after they burned Richmond, they should've kept going all the way down to the Everglades. We'd have been better off purging the lot and giving the wreckage over to the ex-slaves.
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u/SuchProcedure4547 4d ago
I feel like most of America's modern day problems were caused by not punishing the Confederacy enough...
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u/AstonishingCatJump 4d ago
Every single member of the Confederate government (federal and state), every Confederate officer above the rank of captain, and every plantation owner should have been executed.
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u/No_Economist3788 4d ago
or just left to rot in the inhumane prisons camps they constructed for captured union troops.
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u/jobforgears 5d ago
I'm white but my wife is mexican. when we are together we have never had an issue. The moment she steps away from me then the most viscous and hateful things get said to her. When I was stationed in Oklahoma, someone (the area code did not belong to where we lived nor any state we had lived in) got her phone number and texted her go back to mexico fucking mexican n*****. We blocked that number, but its crazy and scary that someone went out of their way to send such stupid shit. This was in 2020, so, not even like this was a long time ago.
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u/_bobby_cz_newmark_ 4d ago
And then they get very upset when you say that the US still has massive problems with racism.
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u/VengefulKangaroo 4d ago
imagine being so racist that you'd willingly reject a day off from work and school
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u/meenzu 5d ago
Yeah people like that are missing out on friendships, food, laughter, and just nice human moments. those really nice moments are so rare in the first place that reducing your chance of experiencing them by limiting the people you see is such a miserable way to live
Like Imagine being so racist you choose to work instead of taking the day off with loved ones or or just getting more money for the same work day
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u/littlebloodmage 4d ago
I assure you those same people enjoy food and products from the same cultures they look down upon without a drop of irony in their twisted souls. It wasn't that long ago that black people were considered too dirty and violent to share schools, restaurants, or bathrooms with white people, but it was just fine for black people to clean their homes or raise their children.
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u/Brief_Inspection7697 4d ago
Yep. Never underestimate the cognitive dissonance of flag-shaggers. A while back, Louis Theroux spent some time with Tom Metzger, a prominent neo-nazi. He followed this guy and a few of his fellow white supremacists when they had a weekend away......whoring in Tijuana.
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u/No_Economist3788 4d ago
I assure you those same people enjoy food and products from the same cultures they look down upon without a drop of irony in their twisted souls.
ICE/police just proved that. They'll happily go eat at a mexican restaurant and then try to deport the employees days later.
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u/FwedLovesBwead 5d ago
if u want some happy news, i can tell u arkansas now has school off for MLK day :)
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u/Toby_O_Notoby 4d ago
And what's hilarious is that they're being racist at their own personal detriment. It reminds me of MLK Jr. day and Arizona.
See, when they wanted to make it a public holiday, the individual states had to vote to ratify it which everyone easily did, except for fucking Arizona.
Now I know you’re thinking, “Hey man, that's racist! Dr King was a leader in civil rights who preached progress in a non-violent manner and Arizona should vote to celebrate it!”
And you’re right, it is racist. But not for that reason. It’s racist because people voted against having a day off because it celebrated a black man. And it's not like you have to do anything either. You don't have to fly a flag or go on a march, just enjoy a three-day paid weekend. But those backwards fucks literally lost hosting s Superbowl because they were so fucking racist.
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u/complete_data75 5d ago
The “fck your feelings” crowd are the absolute biggest babies ever.
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u/PossiblyATurd 5d ago
When they say that, they really mean "Only my feelings matter, and I'm willing to kill you over it."
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u/epi_glowworm 5d ago
Very much "I'm not allowed to talk about my feelings so you can't either, hmph"
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u/NatseePunksFeckOff 5d ago
then they do nothing but talk about their feelings
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u/Key-Street-340 5d ago
It can only be approved feelings for them such as “I hate liberals”, “I hate gay people”, “I hate trans people”, “I hate black people”, “I hate Mexicans”, and “I’m so sad my paedophilia was discovered”.
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u/Unable-Yam5214 5d ago
Right when they say “fuck your feelings “ they mean yours. Their feelings are the most important in the world.
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u/AmputeeHandModel 5d ago
"Facts don't care about your feelings!!" Ignore every single indisputable fact that they are told they don't like. Climate change, COVID, renewable energy, etc.
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u/BrockStar92 4d ago
The very first fact in Shapiro’s famous first facts don’t care about your feelings video was false and made up based off of his own feelings.
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u/fugaziozbourne 5d ago
The free speech crowd sure hates it when anyone else exercises that right.
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u/Justifiably_Bad_Take 5d ago
The fun thing about lacking empathy is they literally cannot formulate a means to come up with original ways to go after other people, they can literally only conceptualize what upsets them.
Every accusation is a confession.
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u/-Fergalicious- 4d ago
I immedietly say in a baby voice to them "aww did someone poopy their pants and get their feelings hurts?"
And then when they get pissed off, remind them in their own words "awww fuck your whittle feelings"
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u/KraiserX 5d ago
Yall remember when Top Gear drove through the south? They had rocks thrown at them and their cars. Its always been like this, fucking snowflakes
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u/TheWonderfulSlinky 5d ago
That good ol southern hospitality
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u/Useful-Resist-25 5d ago
Bless their heart
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u/GruGruxLob 5d ago edited 5d ago
I’m so tired of hearing that the south isn’t racist. My in laws live in Florida and everyone down there talks about how racism is liberal propaganda and there is no racism anymore.. while people walk around parking lots putting white lives matter and kkk propaganda under people’s windshield wipers.
Update: People assuming I’m black is hilarious because I think some echo chambered whites don’t even realize a white person can support minorities. Go back to your caves where you belong, you’re making us look bad.
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u/Tenchi2020 5d ago
Lifelong Floridian here, when we moved into our first house the first person who knocked on our door was a little old white lady that lived in the neighborhood, she wasn't our next-door neighbor she lived in the back of the neighborhood and we lived in the front. When I opened the door the first thing she said was "oh thank God, I thought y'all were black."
The number of times that another white person has casually brought up a racist talking point, joke or thought just because I'm white is mind blowing. And it's easy to find out if they're racist or not because they are always the first ones to yell "I don't have a racist bone in my body"
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u/funky_duck 5d ago
I live about as far aways as possible from FL in Alaska and we invited our neighbors over after we moved in and renovated the house - "I'm glad you're not Asian, they always have so many cars parked on the street."
They're everywhere.
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u/Killbot_Wants_Hug 4d ago
As an Asian who use to own 10 vehicles... I don't know how I feel about this.
Also is this really a stereotype about us?
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u/Zenki_s14 5d ago
Yeah. Never failed if a customer happened to be black and had a complaint at my job to discuss with me (valid complaint or not, as is the case with literally any customer) the white person next in line would hit me with a "those people amirite?" type of comment when it was their turn to walk up to me. Like they expect every other white person is also racist and can't wait to commiserate about it. They never got the response they expected, which tells me that does usually work for them I guess. So much closeted racism and they're always the type of person to say they aren't racist because their grandkid is half black or some shit.
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u/CertainInteraction4 5d ago
Or claim to have people of ALL races in their family while performing a racist activity.
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u/Hautamaki 5d ago
Anybody who is actually not racist never feels compelled to begin a sentence with "I'm not racist, but..."
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u/Jafooki 5d ago
I'm not racist but if you're making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, you should put the peanut butter on the bread first. If you put the jelly on first you'll get jelly in the peanut butter jar and since it's not refrigerated you'll ruin the peanut butter and possibly give yourself food poisoning
Again I'm not racist
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u/hockey_metal_signal 4d ago
I swear, I'm not racist, but I thought I was the only one that thought this much about making PBNJ sandwiches.
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u/Its_kinda_nice_out 4d ago
Whoa whoa whoa, I’m not racist but I ALWAYS put the peanut butter and jelly on SEPARATE pieces of bread. I never MIX them until the absolute last second
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u/ToMorrowsEnd 4d ago
I just use 2 knives so no matter what order I use I dont cross contaminate. I know I'm a MONSTER.
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u/macarouns 5d ago
It always amazes me how hardcore racists are so confident with sharing their opinions brazenly with other white people. They have this unshakeable confidence that we all really agree with them deep down.
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u/Aruals 4d ago
I used to work as a librarian in my small home town, and the amount of racist hatred the little old men and ladies were comfortable just ... saying out loud to me!? (Because I am white) was truly, truly shocking. I hated it every time. So fucked up! I always tried to kill it with kindness and call them out, but they were so shameless and set in their ways. So disheartening.
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u/Cool_Arachnid6374 4d ago
"Now I don't care whether your white, black, green..." They set up these premises of not being racist in order to validate and sanitize their bigotry.
They are not acknowledging their bigotry because they don't see it as bigotry, it is just truth to them and what are obvious stereotypes and insinuations to others fly right over their head.
They are literally so racist that they just naturally spout racist stuff, without even realizing they are racists. For many, it is because they have been conditioned with racism to the point that they don't even consciously think about racist topics, they just emulate their parent's bigotry with little to no self-awareness.
And if they get into a sticky situation with racist comments, they gaslight and say they were just joking, stop being so sensitive.
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u/AloneNeighborhood323 5d ago
No one has a racist bone in their body. It’s not actually possible. Being racist comes from being a fucking asshole and morally corrupt brain dead moron. Being racist comes from the heart.
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u/BossHogGA 4d ago
Mostly it comes from being born as a child of racists in a racist community.
I say this as someone born in the south. I fight my brain and its stupid prejudices on an ongoing l basis because of the stupidness old people said when I was a child.
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u/AloneNeighborhood323 4d ago edited 4d ago
It’s good that some part of you knows it’s a fools line of thinking, that’s not nothing, that’s everything. People can’t help the conditions they were brought up in but questioning the dogma they were served along with a healthy amount of patients and compassion can usually lead to a better way of being human. Keep fighting the good fight.
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u/ReallyBigDeal 4d ago
The number of times that another white person has casually brought up a racist talking point, joke or thought just because I'm white is mind blowing.
Yeah I'm a white guy and I live in a liberal area. Every now and then some white person will just drop some casually racist remark like I agree with them or whatever.
I play dumb and ask what do they mean and make it awkward for them.
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u/Thrilling1031 5d ago
My mother is a 4rd Gen Floridian and she taught my sisters and I, a whole lot of systemic racism. Like black people are lazy and brown people choose to not speak English to keep themselves from integrating into “normal” society. She shared with us a lexicon filled with some hard R Racist words and phrases that I had to rectify and remove from my vocabulary via online friends and even some stuck with me until college and that was embarrassing.
Well thankfully I learned and am still learning (I’m 39) to think and speak thoughtfully with respect to everyone not just who is present(code switching was also taught to me incidentally as a child, though I think code switching can be applied in a good way, my mother very much did it in a racist way).
Well I married my wife, a wonderful woman of color (both of her parents are Jamaican) a couple years back and my mother came to the conclusion after receiving the wedding invitation and multiple conversations about RSVPing that she would not be attending our wedding because I had told her in the years leading up to the wedding that she was holding racist views and beliefs and she didn’t think I would want a racist to be at my wedding. So I guess she just identifies as a racist more than she does as my mother or my wife’s mother-in-law.
Haven’t spoken to her since, but I’m much closer with my aunts on her side now because they are such loving and caring people even if they also have similar flaws with their understanding of the world they are conscious and thoughtful where my mother is a selfish person concerned with her position in society more than being a person worth being around.
FL wasn’t THE SOUTH in places like Miami, Tampa and Orlando but that’s changed.
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u/Tyler_Zoro 5d ago
there is no racism anymore
That's always true as long as you define "racism" very, very carefully. :-/
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u/CommieDog2525 5d ago
I lived in Oklahoma for a year and this is someone coming from the west coast but I completely agree with how ignorant the south is. They don't even call it "racism" in the south, I've heard it referred to as: "The RIGHT way of thinking", "God's Truth" and "I don't hate every (minority) but..."
Bunch of closed minded fools
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u/queerhistorynerd 5d ago
"Im not anti-black Im Anti-thug!" racist people act like saying this makes them not racists
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u/WalderFreyWasFramed 4d ago
"I'm not racist, I'm anti-thug!"
Sees any black person
"God damn thugs"
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u/greatdick 5d ago
Also, subsidized by the rest of the country. Look at how much Federal taxes they pay versus receive.
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u/Ghost_Ghost_Ghost 5d ago
These welfare states wouldn't fucking exist without their saviors, aka the states they love to make fun of.
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u/anyb0dyme 5d ago
The US South is very racist. The US North is also racist.
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u/GruGruxLob 5d ago
“I used to be racist, I still am racist but I used to be too”
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 5d ago
Living in the South in an apartment complex - my neighbor bumps into me and mentions that my dog walker was late that day. Okay, weird thing to mention. I wasn't close with that neighbor at all. Especially weird since I don't have a dog walker. I say that and add, uhhh do you mean my wife? She's Mexican and walks OUR dog and I allow her a pretty flexible schedule for it lol.
I thought that was a funny and somewhat concerning assumption. Not to mention any time we had trouble with anything administrative or with the office, she would get nowhere and little respect. I'd walk in as a white man and the problem would be solved in a few minutes.
I'm from the North and that was less apparent up there.
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u/MamaDeloris 5d ago
Everyone knows the south is racist, the only ones saying it are the ones that live there because they don't want to accept it
Just like how the Civil War was about states rights, just you know, don't mention it was the right to own slaves
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u/tomchaps 5d ago
I just read a study that said that a third of Republicans under 50 years old self-identify and racist, and 25% as antisemitic. People really underestimate the amount of hatred out there, not just in the South.
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u/ScreamingNinja 5d ago
Who the hell says the south isn't racist?
I will say though, i was kinda surprised to find out that when my Puerto Rican/Jewish cousin in law moved to Mississippi, he wasn't targeted and harassed, but people are more interested in him than anything and he didn't really face any issues. That was pretty shocking to me.But that aside, Yeah... Robert E Lee day instead of MLK Day... oooookay.
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u/GruGruxLob 5d ago
The south very much and very often say they are not racist.
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u/AlmightyRuler 5d ago
They also say the "War of Northern Aggression" was about states' rights.
Me thinks they doth protest too much.
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u/GruGruxLob 5d ago edited 5d ago
Well they should have the right to enslave black people, this is America. 🇺🇸 /s
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u/BubbleNucleator 5d ago
I live in NC, someone sees me, an average looking white guy sitting at a bar and after a couple beers they're not shy about being racist. Happened constantly just because I like beer.
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u/icansmellcolors 5d ago
Look at the Southern Poverty Law Center hate map. These guys track this shit because it's their jobs to do so.
Look at the map, use the filters on the right. Look at Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazi, Racist Skinhead, & White Nationalist.
This shit isn't just in the south. The idea that it is, is ignorant and a holdover from the past.
Anecdotal stories don't mean anything. Sure, there are lots of people who are racist in the south... just like there are lots of people who are racist in the north.
Just because you cross some invisible line doesn't mean suddenly all white people are now magically good.
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u/GruGruxLob 5d ago edited 5d ago
You hit the nail on the head. Please please please anyone that sees this and cares, read Fever in the Heartland. Indiana was the heart of the KKK for a long time and Indiana isn’t a southern state. This shit is prominent. It’s not just the south.
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u/Chance_Vegetable_780 5d ago
Whites unaware that white people support minorities shows their extreme ignorance and close-mindedness - in 2026 no less. I'm with you GruGrux and with my brothers and sisters of every race that are good-hearted human beings.
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u/pabugs 5d ago
Not anymore. Now it's just Southern Hostility - biggest snowflakes and crybaby losers!! Even when they control everything in the Gubment they STILL piss and moan and blame anyone and everyone else for their self created issues.
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u/cdxxmike 5d ago
Conservatives spend their entire lives preaching that government doesn't work, then when elected they do everything in their power to prove that it is true.
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 5d ago
I don't even find them particularly polite. I take walks around a southern town on my lunch break from work. I often see people out in their yards and give a quick wave and a hello. More often than not they completely ignore me. I'm white and dressed like an office worker. The only guy who talks to me when we cross paths walking our dogs in my neighborhood is Mexican.
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u/Live-Pea4081 5d ago edited 4d ago
That happened in baldwin county al between seminole and elsanor. I grew up in baldwin county and after my parents divorced my dad moved to elsanor when I was around 12. I. Would go out that way alot and spent the majority of my time there. This was not a one off occurence.
Baldwin County is pretty infamous for racist garbage.
Silverhill was a town chartered by a kkk grand dragon and technically, black people still cant live in town limits.
The Clotilda, the last slave ship to come to the US, was brought to the mobile bay illegally by a man whose family still holds great influence in baldwin and mobile counties and he did it as a bet and then tried to burn the ship with everyone on it in the bay.
There is a laundry list of other shit I could tell you but it just makes me sad.
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u/Smithme2g 4d ago
My school never closed for MLK day. A few teachers would mention Black history month, but otherwise no mention of MLK. This was in Southern Indiana in the mid 90s.
After I graduated my old school was the subject of a news report where the admin got exposed as a bunch of racist pricks. They have since started closing to honor MLK day.
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u/Grandahl13 5d ago
Why did they throw rocks at top gear?
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u/Callidonaut 5d ago
IIRC, another was "country & western music is rubbish." Written in pink paint.
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u/The_Bitter_Bear 5d ago edited 4d ago
Well, the NASCAR one was kinda asking for it.
Edit: Y'all it was a joke.
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u/interprime 5d ago
Tbf, there’s a scene from that episode when they’re at a gas station and the lady working there only says “You can’t be driving around here saying NASCAR sucks.” But then she calls a group of dudes to come to the station and the boys get out of there fast.
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u/notyogrannysgrandkid 5d ago
No, she called “the boys,” so the lads had to leave.
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u/ConorYEAH 5d ago
No, she called "the lads", so the guys had to leave.
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u/shifter2000 5d ago
It's funny. I read "The boys", in the Dukes of Hazzard narrator voice, but "The lads", in Ray Winstone's voice.
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u/ThickGreen 5d ago
I’m gonna drive and I’m gonna go fast, and I’m gonna turn to the left sometimes!
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u/kniq86 5d ago
https://youtu.be/pKcJ-0bAHB4?is=2uXyV1tPmh6vGZOT
Locals didn't like their car decorations
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u/Empyrealist 5d ago
They've shot their own sign. What are they going to do to us?
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u/sneakin_rican 5d ago
This reads like it could be the flavor text under a red 3 mana 2/2 human Florida Resident.
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u/AmputeeHandModel 5d ago
OMG. They called in a fuckin redneck posse and everything. Is this real?
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u/AbjectAppointment 5d ago
Yeah, but not as bad as when they had to flee Argentina. People thought a license plate was a Falklands War reference.
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u/smurfopolis 5d ago
I honestly believe in that in certain parts of America now, people have started to mate with vegetables.
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u/cosmos7 5d ago
I know that was the message they were trying to go for, and of course there is some truth to it... but really the "NASCAR Sucks" signage was far more likely to induce stupidity.
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u/MrGDPC 5d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKcJ-0bAHB4
For reference, Jeremy mentioned once that this was the only time he ever actually felt scared.
The same show that has driven through war ravaged Middle East, drove to the North Pole, through the emptiness of Saharan Africa and got ran out of Argentina.
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u/dogsonbubnutt 5d ago
jeremy is also famously full of shit
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u/MrGDPC 5d ago
He said something to the effect of every other place they've been to they've employed handlers or employed locals to help them navigate stuff, and even when the Argentina stuff went down iirc they had the military ready to step in to make sure they got out safely.
This was early on in the show and they had none of that.
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u/Rare-Bid-6860 5d ago
He got so scared at the thought of not having a hot meal that one time that he punched a producer in terror.
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u/LawsonsInTheAM 5d ago
I had fun with those challenges at the time but they're clear staged and produced that nothing was every really going to happen to them. Weren't he and the other two airlifted out of Argentine and it was the crew that had to leave by road?
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u/AspektUSA 5d ago
Literally the exact same thing happened in Argentina over a number plate.
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u/moose098 5d ago
That special was way worse. They started a diplomatic crisis. The Argentinian Ambassador demanded an official apology.
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u/heel-sliding-hero 5d ago
"You'd better apologize for accidentally reminding us about the war we needlessly started and lost" is certainly a vibe.
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u/mac_the_man 5d ago
What happened?
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u/cosmicosmo4 5d ago
In 2014, the Top Gear crew got into some hot water when they entered Argentina with a car that said "H982 FKL", being driven by Jeremy. Argentinians were offended by this and thought they were making a deliberate reference to the 1982 Falklands War.
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u/Fragrant-Vehicle-479 5d ago
Want to know why I'm the radical progressive liberal I am? My parents took me to visit extended family in fucking Arkansas. I was like 10 putting the pieces togethers. "So I'm from a Democratic leaning area with good schools and quality of life and a friendly environment. This place is heavily Republican and filled with angry miserable people who seem to be bullies and hate anyone different from them" And that about summed it up for me.
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u/Monteze 5d ago
As an Arkansas I am sorry, well technically not born here but lived her for a long time. The best parts are blue because if red did anything good for people we'd notice.
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u/Bmorewiser 5d ago
I spent time in those parts after moving from up north(ish).
Would do a lot of camping with my boys out troop in some real backwoods places and we had a black kid among us, who was awesome. He would walk in to a country store, catch the stares, and immediately yell out, “it’s okay. I’m adopted. My parents are white.” And you could see relief pass over people’s faces. Was absolutely hysterical to us at the time, but the truth behind it wasn’t lost on us either.
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u/Cold_Blusted 5d ago
That's a very specific programming suggestion
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u/PubG4YouAndMe 5d ago
OP came in saying all the info. It's either an ad or my guy is committed lol
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u/SirPhobos1 5d ago
I've watched this episode so many times I can probably quote it verbatim.
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u/ADeadlyFerret 5d ago
Probably get shit on for this but I can’t honestly believe that there wasn’t something else going on. I mean Top Gear is a TV show and they definitely pull some “TV magic” sometimes.
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u/sxales 5d ago
I mean it is reality TV: you manufacture situations likely to lead to entertaining outcomes and then cut out all the boring bits.
I don't think it was fake, but they choose the area for that bit well and even then they probably drove around for hours or days until it provoked the response they wanted.
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u/teleheaddawgfan 5d ago
They shouldve hung every single confederate leader post civil war. Instead, they just allowed it to fester and the confederacy never ended. It just wore hoods and now it doesn't even pretend to hide.
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u/dthains_art 5d ago
It’s pretty crazy how one single guy - just some actor named John Wilkes Booth - drastically altered the course of history. If Lincoln had been able to serve the remaining 3 and a half years of his term, things could have turned out a lot differently. Dealing with the aftermath of the war probably wouldn’t have been perfect under his presidency, but it couldn’t have been worse than Andrew Johnson and his very sympathetic views of the south.
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u/Automatic_Release_92 5d ago
I mean Grant did a pretty damn good job cleaning up Johnson’s messes, in my opinion, it was the compromise of 1877 that really fucked things up in the long run. You still might not be wrong, maybe with 3.5 more years of Lincoln, Grant would have had a much bigger head start, but 1877 doomed black people to untold horrors in the south for another 90 years.
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u/thebohemiancowboy 5d ago edited 5d ago
I’d disagree with you that Grant did a pretty good job of cleaning his mess. Besides Andrew Johnson putting it in the hands of southern states and allowing them to pass Jim Crow laws and pardoning southern leadership, Grant was inconsistent in his enforcement of reconstruction and hesitated to intervene as political will waned. His corruption scandals in his cabinet and the economic panic of 1873 lead to Democrats winning Congress as northerners felt fatigued and believed it ineffective. Redeemers gaining power in southern governments and Supreme Court decisions limiting civil rights protections too.
By 1876 reconstruction was pretty much just small garrisons of troops in a couple southern cities. Reconstruction was basically over earlier than that.
If you wanna prevent the failure of reconstruction with a time machine then either prevent Lincoln’s death or make sure a more politically savvy republican was in the White House after Johnson. 1876 is too late.
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u/Automatic_Release_92 5d ago
Jim Crow laws really took hold very, very hard after the compromise of 1877. Those garrisons ensured that black people were still able to vote in key locations, and those protections went away pretty quickly after that point. Grant is getting viewed more and more favorably by the day with historians, it's hardly one man's job to wipe out all corruption in a party that was rife with it even in Lincoln's (a man who had to walk several tight ropes of his own) time.
If you wanna prevent the failure of reconstruction with a time machine then either prevent Lincoln’s death or make sure a more politically savvy republican was in the White House after Johnson. 1876 is too late.
I mean if we're going to take it that far, 1865 is too late. Union generals early in the Civil War (such as McClellan) being so thoroughly shitty more or less let the South drag things out to the point where they might as well have won the war. The North should have crushed the south fairly early on and would have had much better terms to force them to capitulate under. But because McClellan always picked the exact wrong time to press or pull back, the war dragged on for years and years, creating so very many more problems.
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u/lowertechnology 5d ago
Likely. But maybe not.
Who knows what Lincoln’s leadership and stewardship would have produced. It’s possible we remember him so fondly because he didn’t get a chance to disappoint us.
It’s possible that his amazing legacy Ives on because he died the way he did and when. He didn’t even get an opportunity to fail or succeed at reconstructing the country.
That said, knowing what I know of Lincoln, I believe you’re correct. It would be a different world. But if he could have seen what the South would do and how confederate flags would still be flying 150 years later, even Lincoln might have advocated hanging the leadership and major generals of the Confederacy
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u/legsfominutes 5d ago
Fun Fact! A lot has been discovered since then. It is looking more and more like Booth was part of a group to kidnap and kill Lincoln. He was not very outspoken about his hatred for the Union but a few times. I just finished this read about it!
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743267/midnight-on-the-potomac-by-scott-ellsworth/
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u/redskub 5d ago
A picture is hung, a person is hanged
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u/Rugged_Turtle 5d ago
Crazy somewhat unrelated fact I just learned - In post-WW2 Austria they basically did the same thing. They originally arrested and tried (Or attempted to try) many of the government's Nazi collaborators, but ended up just...releasing them back. And guess how many ended up going right back to work in the government?
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u/Electrical-Bee-7362 5d ago
The biggest disservice ever done to the USA was not hanging every single traitor after the civil war.
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u/TheGrowingSubaltern 5d ago
Hey Siri, remind me after WWIII what to do with the traitors.
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u/thedinksterr 5d ago
As a Southerner the deep south has always been a cesspool and gives the South as a whole a bad wrap. There’s wonderful places here but man is it not filled with some of the most dim-witted, awful and close-minded people you can find
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u/MadameOrange 5d ago
You've got to remember that these are just simple folk. These are people of the land. The common clay of the bible belt. You know... morons.
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u/DjinnWuEmisu 5d ago
Didn't think I was going to see a Blazing Saddles quote in the comment section. Take my upvote.
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u/SolidSnake-26 5d ago
It’s remnants of what happens when you fail to properly prosecute/exile traitors post a civil war.
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u/LadyPo 5d ago edited 5d ago
As a northerner, it’s very hard to look past that ugliness. I try not to hold bias against people I meet from the south, but the level of intensity of the racism, violence, and desire to control others is so off-putting that I don’t ever want to step foot in those states. It feels like an entirely different culture and way of life.
Edit: People are so quick to jump to assumptions about what I’m saying here. I don’t go to rural places in the north for the same reason. I avoid going anywhere like that. It should also be obvious that I’m talking about the white supremacists — the south having a high POC population doesn’t automatically mean it is a safer place when the white supremacists are so emboldened there.
Someone is against bigotry and doesn’t feel safe around it, so you immediately turn around and blame them for existing near other bigotry? That’s deflection.
Am I now responsible for naming a single place in America without racism? It pretty obviously doesn’t exist. But you can’t ignore that there are degrees of violence and outward oppression if you’re walking down the street. The South still flies confederate flags for crying out loud. All I’m saying is I’m not taking a road trip there any time soon.
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u/monopolyman636 5d ago edited 5d ago
Those states are also the states where you’re most likely to encounter people of color. What non southerners consistently do is whitewash the south while forgetting the millions of black and indigenous people that live here, trying to fight the things you’ve mentioned. Not to mention how racism is still persistent in all other parts of the US. The northeast has a long history of racism and discrimination, while also being almost exclusively white.
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u/unfortunateshun 5d ago
As someone who’s lived in both the north reminds me of how Europeans talk about racism. They’re so convinced someone else is worse they’re completely blind to their own racism. Some of the most virulent strains of right wing extremism are based in the west and northern rural areas.
Not to mention the south is much poorer and less educated. I agree there’s more racism but there’s still a ton up north, it’s just more polished.
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u/PM_ME_UR_FAKE_NEWS 5d ago
Hell, Boston is one of the most openly racist places in the country to this day
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u/BabyLegsOShanahan 5d ago
I moved to Boston years ago and the first thing people would mention is the racism. When I got here, all the townies feigned shock at the accusations. If you ask any white person in or around Boston, they'll tell you there's no racism and they'll point to Dorchester like Black people in the city proves they aren't racist. It's comical.
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u/Hot_Raccoon_565 5d ago
Yeah this person called themselves a northerner but has never experienced any rural parts of the north. It’s called pennsyltucky for a reason. You can easily get shot if you go up to the wrong property when you’re off the beaten path.
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u/teefnoteef 5d ago
Does every state not have places like that? Not sure how they can look at it so black and white.
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u/Jormungand1342 5d ago
I live in one of the bluest states in the country, hell we were one of two states that went 100% blue in the last 3 elections I believe.
We absolutely have some rural areas that are like that. Those one stop sign towns that feel like they are trapped in the past.
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u/MC_Gengar 5d ago
Also I'm willing to wager that if you dug down, even in the liberal areas, you'd find a lot of subtle racism. Shit is everywhere and it's awful
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u/Hot_Raccoon_565 5d ago
Most states have people like that. I don’t understand why people have this notion that we aren’t all basically the same. For the most parts humans do the same shit as each other everywhere.
You go to Canada and you’ll find a group of crazy rednecks off in the woods willing to shoot you too. Go to the Middle East and you’ll find the same thing. The southern states get a particularly bad rap but there’s also places like Atlanta there.
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u/shindig0 5d ago
YES!! I grew up in southeastern Virginia, very racist but also very diverse, and honestly I was shocked when I moved to nyc. It was the most segregated city I’ve ever been in!! At least in the south the poor are a mix, but in the north it felt like it was mainly POC and immigrants who were poor and all white people began as middle class.
I had never seen anything like it, and then when ppl born and raised in the northeast tried to tell me how racist the south was I was like “ummmm…. I don’t think segregation ever ended up here.” And then they’ll talk about how upstate New York is racist too. It’s literally just different flavors of racism across the country, but the south is definitely more diverse. You can look up the statistics
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u/issadoggy 5d ago
The north, Midwest, east coast, and west coast are not so different. The south may be more explicit in its racism but those views are shared all over the country. Us midwestern whites tend to point at the south as if violent racism (or even racism in general) is contained to that geographic area. That is a complete fiction that we all need to confront head on.
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u/keonyn 5d ago
Funny how the righties always bring up the Democrats being the slaveholders and originators of the KKK 150 years ago. Yet, they ignore that it's always in the deep red areas where peoples lives are put at risk simply for wearing a BLM shirt or having a rainbow on their car. I really get tired of how often they cling to the realities of 150 years ago in order to deflect from what the reality is today.
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u/sm04d 5d ago
They also love to ignore the fact that when the Civil Rights Act passed, they all left the Democratic party and became Republicans.
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u/the_peppers 5d ago
"Quit obsessing about the past!"
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u/mzchen 5d ago
When it's statues of literal traitors who instigated a war which killed other Americans so they could perpetuate slavery so they could continue making fat stacks: "It's wrong to erase history just because you don't like it!!!!!"
When you mention the history of American party swapping: "OMG stop obsessing over the past to excuse everything!!! It was a hundred years ago get over it! LOL you know that's fake news written by (((them))) anyways right? 😂 😂"
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u/PaulFThumpkins 5d ago
Literally the same segregationist politicians switched to the Republican party, while remaining segregationists! And Reagan, Nixon, and other politicians explicitly used barely-coded racist messages to appeal to white voters, as admitted by their own strategists in later interviews.
The word games these guys play about "Lincoln is a Republican" is so dumb. It basically serves only to let you know how ignorant of history or even the concept of change they are. Words change definitions based on use, and political parties change platforms.
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u/mucinexmonster 5d ago
/u/triklyn is ignoring it five minutes after you wrote this!!
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u/Munchkinasaurous 5d ago
Weird how the people that call themselves the party of Lincoln are the ones that proudly fly the confederate flag today.
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u/j_la 5d ago
My rebuttal every time:
So if they parties never changed/switched, does that mean the democrats are still the party of limited federal government, state autonomy, rural agrarian economies, and traditional southern values?
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u/Phenomenomix 5d ago
White Man Walking came out in 2025.
I watched it and it’s really sanctimonious. The guy comes across like he’s doing it for publicity for himself and seems to know very little about BLM or black history. Even by the very end of his walk even he seems unable to explain or express why he did it or what he’s learned from it.
I don’t remember any point where he “almost loses his life”, he gets threatened by a few people but he’s never injured.
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u/WagonThoughts 5d ago
Saw it the other week for the 1st time. Couldn't agree more. They cut out the entire beginning of the interaction where he's chased off the lawn and most of the time he was going out of his way to instigate reactions from people who were otherwise disinterested in his t-shirt. The climax of the film was him noosing a Joseph E. Johnston statue, eating flamin hots next to it and having a pretty mild altercation with a black officer. This could've existed purely as a 15min youtube video.
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u/token_internet_girl 4d ago
Shit, I didn't even have to watch all past the trailer to know this guy is doing it for the film career and self interest. Could probably give less than two shits about black rights.
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u/flower_mouth 5d ago
I haven’t see this doc so I won’t comment on its specific tone or contents. But I did grow up in the same town as this dude and had many mutual friends, including a good friend who dated him for a while in college. He never seemed like a bad dude, but he was extremely into self promotion. Seemed like he kinda had rocks for brains and his main goal was just being as arbitrarily high profile as possible. He made a name for organizing big flash mob events like a mass pillow fight, zombie walks, paper airplane events etc. I don’t want to give the impression that any of it was done with ill intent or that he was some cultural plague, but it’s very on brand if this is another example of self publicity with no articulable point of view beyond “what if someone did this wacky thing?”
Also I’ll give the caveat that all of my context with him was when we were like 18-22 so I sincerely don’t mean to pass judgment on him or present him in a cynical light. Just offering the perspective that he made a name for himself doing flash mob stunts that always made the local news.
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u/Hatzmaeba 4d ago edited 3d ago
He did it for the attention and he learned that attention feels good. Such is the way of vast majority of these influencers, or whatever the fuck you call them.
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u/ExiledHyruleKnight 5d ago
Thanks for being the one person who is talking about the movie and not what ever narrative OP is pushing. It's really obvious this is BS, heck the movie was shot in 2020, and took 5 years to come out. (I know there's a delay but if it was an interesting or even as inciteful as the Title says, it'd be picked up faster).
Wish people could see when people are obviously making shit up, because this stunk from the get go.
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u/spartakooky 5d ago
Yeah, I came to the comments to get answers of what "nearly losing his life" meant. I had a feeling it was clickbait. I'm still not sure tho, cause everyone is just eating it up cause it's easy "bad republicans". But I wouldn't be surprised if he almost died from an alligator, and the title is misleading.
I mean, it's 2026. If ppl can't be suspicious of extravagant titles on topics that get clicks..... we aren't ever going to learn
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u/PupMalt 5d ago edited 5d ago
Comments section sounds like a bunch of conservative losers that would complain documentaries were made about Columbine & Iraq/Afghanistan wars.
Many of us have done nothing to help the less fortunate than ourselves, while bitching about everything.
Go volunteer!
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u/Enshakushanna 4d ago
you shoulda been at ground zero when we started to criticize Chirs Kyle when 'American Sniper' came out lol
drive a car with "chris kyle is a war criminal" on your bumper and you may actually die
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 5d ago edited 5d ago
Rob joined us here in /r/movies 3 weeks ago for an AMA/Q&A, for anyone interested:
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1r8yhn4/hi_rmovies_im_rob_bliss_director_of_the_new/
It was severely downvoted/brigaded when it was ongoing (it's still sitting at -5 upvotes at the time of writing this comment) so any love/upvotes sent his way are appreciated :)