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Hortensis

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8. Shell, are you sure this, perhaps inadvertent, disrespect is

Reply to Shell_Seas (Reply #4)

Wed Jan 13, 2021, 10:26 PM

Jan 2021

actually intended to excite southerners, especially AA, into dreaming of someday being free?

Her following is mostly young white, definitely not southern, and this talk of "liberating" the south may just be revolutionary puffery directed at them.

The other possibility is that she's genuinely hoping to LW-radicalize those vulnerable to it down here. After all, Trump did, he's on his way out, and they're going to be needing a new leader. Extremist types are @10-12% in any population, just waiting for the right/wrong influence to come along and excite them.

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AOC: AOC: Nation Can Only Heal Once 'Oppressed' Southern States Are 'Liberated' [View all] Ex Lurker Jan 2021 OP

A Black and a Jew will represent Georgia in the US Senate. Dawson Leery Jan 2021 #1

Lol, reminds me of 2016 and Sanders' followers' earnest lectures to AA about Hortensis Jan 2021 #2

Life long Texan here Shell_Seas Jan 2021 #4

+1 Celerity Jan 2021 #7

Shell, are you sure this, perhaps inadvertent, disrespect is Hortensis Jan 2021 #8

Black people know how racist the south is. Shell_Seas Jan 2021 #10

At very least, if there can be an impact made on Bettie Jan 2021 #12

Absolutely. And a million other things. Shell_Seas Jan 2021 #13

Yep, but a good first step is getting to a point where Bettie Jan 2021 #15

Yess!! Shell_Seas Jan 2021 #3

agree nt Celerity Jan 2021 #5

Agree Irish_Dem Jan 2021 #6

Yes I made this same point to someone at work yesterday lunasun Jan 2021 #9

Somebody from New York City BGBD Jan 2021 #11

United WE Stand MagickMuffin Jan 2021 #14

And tell me BGBD Jan 2021 #16

They have had power and look what they have done to our education system MagickMuffin Jan 2021 #17

You say we're making good gains in the South Mariana Jan 2021 #19

Yeah BGBD Jan 2021 #20

Has AOC made fun of Southern or Appalachian people? Mariana Jan 2021 #21

AOC has a clear grip on the issue. They burnt a cross outside of town just a couple of years ago. marble falls Jan 2021 #18

"Not red, but suppressed". K&R. ck4829 Jan 2021 #22