- Joined
- Dec 20, 2018
The linkage of modern Democrats to the pro-slavery/Jim Crow Democrats is "just a meme", yes, and not a very effective one either. What isn't just a meme is the "soft bigotry of low expectations" that modern Democrats apply to blacks, or the fact of so many SJWs deliberately choosing to live in lily-white gated communities. Modern Democrats are absolutely anti-black racists, just in a different and sneakier way now. They need to be called on it as often and as effectively as possible but trying to link them to the Democrats of old is not a good way to do that.
You can't rightly call them the party of segregation and slavery anymore, even if they did keep Robert Byrd in the Senate until his death (A former Kleagle of the Klu Klux Klan.) What remains the same is the dynamic of the party; just as they were during the days of chattel slavery and Jim Crow, they are the party of "You Work and I Eat".