The president’s speech at a South Carolina church did not go over well with the GOP candidate.
Joe Biden gave a speech in South Carolina on Monday, and Nikki Haley isn’t happy about it. Specifically, she’s not happy about the part where the president called her out for her extremely cringeworthy comments about the Civil War, saying, “Let me be clear, for those who don’t seem to know: Slavery was the cause of the Civil War.”
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The issue of the Civil War—and her commentary on it—has come up for Haley in the past. While running for governor of South Carolina in 2010, she described the war as a matter of two sides fighting over “tradition” and “change,” adding that the Confederate flag was “not something that is racist.” She also claimed there was no reason to take the flag down from the statehouse grounds (until five years later, after the mass shooting at the Charleston church). After Haley’s gaffe in December, Jaime Harrison, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, said that her failure to mention slavery was “not stunning if you were a Black resident in SC when she was Governor.”
Imagine what might’ve happened if Haley was a university president and had parsed her words like that.
“The flag can’t be racist, it has black flag friends.” - Haley probably (note she’s used that excuse for herself already)
token black flags, that is
Henry Rollins enters chat…
First thing that came to mind was Handsome Henry, but I didn’t want to go off on a tangent.
*had
As a child. That’s what she said. She had black friends as a child. She’s 51. She turned 18 in 1981. She apparently hasn’t had black friends in 33 years. Not one black friend since 1981 at the very latest.
Notice how no one had a problem with the Confederate flag until 2015-16 thereabouts? It was just a symbol meaning “of the South” politicized and demonized unnecessarily…
That said Haley is a god damn moron and a sociopath who can only look otherwise when compared to a bigger monster.
Wait, what? I’m pretty sure a lot of people have had a problem with the Confederate flag since long before 2015. It’s always been “politicized”, its literally a political symbol. And it’s demonized because people don’t like traitors or slavery.
2015 is probably the year that the poster was allowed to go outside the “for kids” sections of the Internet.
Seriously? It was always a symbol for “racist piece of shit”, and most people did have a problem with it but just ignored it, like all the other racist piece of shit symbolism because the Voting Rights act passed and Segregation was defeated so racism ended…right?..right?
Source: not born in the south but lived there, and am old.
Yup. It’s like when you see someone wearing Orange Jesus regalia now - it’s always been a signifier to sane people to keep away from them as much as possible. They are surely racist AF, and on top of that, too stupid/crazy to not broadcast it to the world.
Maybe people in the south forgot, but the rest of the world definitely always knew that it’s a symbol for racist historically challenged losers.
Was 2016 the first time you became politically aware, or are you just speaking in bad faith?
Ding ding.
“A thing didn’t exist before I knew of it.”
Yeah no, as someone who was raised in a sane part of the United States, I knew what that flag meant before I even made it to highschool. And we all knew that the scumbags that still displayed the flag were racist pieces of shit.
Um, nearly everyone had a problem with the flag of the treasonous loser country.
All those black kids I went to school with back in the 80s were fine and dandy with it. /s
The ones I went to school with in the 2000’s were fine with it, heck many of them actually wore em on t-shirts. Because culturally speaking, it had more to do with BBQ around here than it did with racism.
I’m glad you grew up in such and enlightened place and time.
I will admit, we are a Blue County right outside a solidly red one…
Drive cross the bridge into the next one over and it’s like stepping into a time machine to the fucking 40’s.
She very publicly removed it from the state capitol
That’s just a lie. I was born in 1977 and I knew that flag was an insult to every black person in America since I learned about the Civil War in elementary school. No one had to teach me that either. It’s fucking obvious.