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You could, of course, demand/wish/hope that right-wing politicians did anything about slavery in foreign nations. But somehow “trying to do anything good” is on
by spiderfarmer 9mo ago
You could, of course, demand/wish/hope that right-wing politicians did anything about slavery in foreign nations. But somehow “trying to do anything good” is on left-wing politicians, while right-wing politicians, without repercussions, can thwart all anti-slavery efforts made by the US over several decades.
Like ending 69 global initiatives to end child labor, forced labor and trafficking:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/trump-cuts-child-labor-human-trafficking-programs https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/trump-cuts-c...
US politics in a nutshell. In order to feel you’ve contributed to a conversation, you can just yell DEI and be done with it.
- sigwinch 9mo agoSpot on. Between the end of the Cold War and the 1994 Congressional election, the right wing decided to flip the enemy from external communists to internal partisans. You’d hear some “party of Reagan” platitudes, but it was really the party of Cohn and Stone, names more influential today than Reagan. Those are people who recoil at doing good in the world.
- hereme888 9mo agoYou understand it was Republicans who ended slavery, while Democrats fought a war to prolong it as long as they could?
- spiderfarmer 9mo agoYes. And that’s as relevant to this discussion as the history of slavery among the Homo Erectus. What matters is what’s being done today. So what are those benevolent republicans doing about slavery, foreign and domestic, today, tomorrow or at any point in the next decade?
- sigwinch 9mo agoSuch an understanding must of course consider the Whig party. You understand that, right?