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Republicans vs. PBS: Round 1 (lemmy.world)

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Mississippi banned ‘Sesame Street’ for showing Black and White kids playing

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Totally true, and it's also true that they're the exact same southern white conservatives of today's Republican party

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yup. Same shitheels, different color scheme and animal mascot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I specifically didn’t spell it ‘republiQan’ since back then it was just standard bible-thumping, women-hating racists. They hadn’t lost their damned minds just yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Back then in addition to all those things, they supported a liberal economic policy. George Wallace l, for example, supported the New Deal through and through, and progressive tax policies