Is it just a coincidence that Martin Luther King day is on the same day as the inauguration of the next president?
Yes. MLK Day is the 3rd Monday of the month. Inauguration day is always Jan 20, unless it falls on a Sunday, in which case it is Jan 21. They happened to coincide this year, as they have occasionally in the past, but it's more common that they don't.
Yes.
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Two salutes. He gave two Nazi salutes.
It's super clear what he did from watching the video. Those are clearly Nazi salutes.
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Nah, I saw what I saw. So did a lot of other people. That was a Nazi salute.
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The actual Nazis were celebrating it. Look it up. Being 'weird' isn't an excuse for doing Nazi stuff.
Yup, that's the litmus test.
Either he's dum8 enough to do it, or dum8 enough not to understand the consequences.
However, I'll stick with my initial diagnosis - a "fck you" act from the mind of someone who has either lost their way, or has always been on the wrong path but has only just found the voice to say it.
What a mess ...
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Jesus christ, even the ADL said that it wasn't a Nazi salute. Give it a rest or it's gonna be a long 12 years for you.
"Even" ... I guess you know very little about the ADL.
That actually makes it more likely to be a Nazi salute...
Why
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I'm not sure what is intended by the quote marks. But in case anyone seriously doubts the views of the founding fathers, remember that many of them owned human beings as private property, and they enshrined lack of equality in the US Constitution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_Compromise
Um, no.
The three-fifths compromise was to reduce the power of the Southern states in the House of Representatives. The southern states wanted slaves counted in their population, thus increasing the southern's states power in that house, even though the slaves themselves would not have any voice in who was elected. The southern states would have (and did) use this power to continue slavery.
Re: the founding fathers and slave ownership. Thomas Jefferson treated his slaves as free people. Why didn't he actually emancipate them? Well, let's say he did, would anyone else recognize them as emancipated, respect their rights to own property, to work, to be free?
Be careful how you apply the context of this era when judging past eras.
And wonder how future generations will view us, who destroyed and slaughtered the earth for what?
Thomas Jefferson did no such thing, he had his slaves whipped, sold them apart from their families, and other common practices. https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slaver... Additionally in his lifetime emancipating slaves was relatively easy compared to later times and groups that purchased and freed enslaved people existed. Everything in that paragraph is false.
> Be careful how you apply the context of this era when judging past eras.
But it’s literally their own context, as many of the Founding Fathers wrote negatively about slavery. It’s judging them by their own standard. I’m not sure they’d mind.