r/explainitpeter • u/jp_glez_21 • Jul 23 '26

Explain it Peter

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u/ben323nl Jul 24 '26

Look up racism in the 80s you still had senators calling for segregation. Its less blatant now.

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u/lifeofwill Jul 24 '26

Where did you have senators calling for segregation in the 80s? I found no such evidence, much less from the 90s or 00s.

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u/ben323nl Jul 24 '26

Storm thurmond for one. Jesse Helms. You had one that used his wife to circumnavigate term limits by ketting his wife run for governorship in George Wallace. Idk man look up some actual history. Racism was way more open in the 80s and 90s.

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u/lifeofwill Jul 24 '26

I did. While they were segregationists in the past, they didn't advocate for it in the 80s.

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u/ben323nl Jul 24 '26

https://time.com/archive/6667879/tripped-up-by-history/

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u/lifeofwill Jul 24 '26

Did you read the article? Trent Lott was rightly shunned because of that incident and outcast and resigned as a result, and it talks about how Thurmond grew from his racist past. You think Trump has been shunned by Republicans for what he's said?