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In reply to the discussion: ( 2014 ) They'll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record's clear: It was segregation. [View all]OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)34. The scariest thing is I almost didn't escape and figure out how despicable they were.
Thankfully I had sane grandparents who got to me enough over the years to plant seeds of goodness that the fundies would have stamped out hard if they had known they were there.
But at the time I was just a kid getting a long road trip with my friends and adults who were supposed to be people who were guiding me to adulthood. We weren't allowed any outside secular influences and the bubble we lived in told us we were superior humans as white, straight male christians and when everyone around you, even the straight, white girls, fed into that it was hard to look too far out of the bubble to find reality.
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( 2014 ) They'll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record's clear: It was segregation. [View all]
BeckyDem
Dec 2021
OP
And Paul Weyrich and fellow Bircher Joe Coors (the money) founded Heritage Foundation which became
ShazamIam
Dec 2021
#4
Thanks. I use this as a handout in a Lifelong Learning class on the Seventies.
hedda_foil
Dec 2021
#7
Power-hungry idiots and fools, using false idols to corral the gullible. It worked.
lindysalsagal
Dec 2021
#11
Yes, they've created a storm of sorts and when we add gerrymandering, Citizens United to the mix...
BeckyDem
Dec 2021
#13
Great find! Even Saint Reagan signed the country's most liberal abortion bill in 1967
Bernardo de La Paz
Dec 2021
#19
A cousin was a BJU student. Proud to say that I was not allowed on campus because of my long hair.
spike jones
Dec 2021
#26
The scariest thing is I almost didn't escape and figure out how despicable they were.
OriginalGeek
Dec 2021
#34
Rational thinking and love is what they gave you, omg..you really were very fortunate
BeckyDem
Dec 2021
#35
All of it steered by a long running conspiracy of rich white men who also fought against unions.
Ford_Prefect
Dec 2021
#22
Yep..the biggest threat to white supremacy was integration not abortion
mountain grammy
Dec 2021
#24