The Pennsylvania Democrat recalled his time serving as a Hillary Clinton surrogate in 2016, even after he supported Bernie Sanders in the primary.

The Pennsylvania Democrat recalled his time serving as a Hillary Clinton surrogate in 2016, even after he supported Bernie Sanders in the primary.

    • Bleeping LobsterEnglish
      24•1 year ago

      What’s True

      The 2008 photograph shows Biden with Robert Byrd, a West Virginia senator who was during the 1940s a member and organizer for the Ku Klux Klan.

      What’s False

      However, Byrd was never “Grand Wizard” of the Ku Klux Klan, and he later renounced his past white supremacist views and said his membership of the KKK was the “biggest mistake” he had ever made, years before he was photographed campaigning with Biden.

      I make this comment not for you, because if you don’t fact check the things you post then you’re prob not going to react positively to any fact checking, but for others curious about the context of this pic

        • Bleeping LobsterEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Not sure what you mean by this, I wasn’t the one who posted the picture so maybe you meant to reply to someone else

      • @TrismegistusMx
        -2•1 year ago

        We all make mistakes like joining the KKK and the Nazi Party. It’s unfair to cancel people!

        • Bleeping LobsterEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Out of interest, what’s your thoughts on Daryl Davis? He’s a black man who made it a goal to befriend KKK members in order to lead them out of their racist ideology, back to normality.

          Those people made objectively shitty, horrible decisions and were living bad lives. Yet, they were able to find a path to redemption. I’m not making excuses for this Byrd dude, I’m not American so I’ll never be faced with votiing for a KKK member (closest we’ve got here is Britain First, though not an exact match as they have ethnic minority members). But something I think about often is (and I hope you’ll do me the service of actually reading what I’ve written and think about it)…

          Imagine you are born into a racist family in some majority-white racist town in American (can’t remember the name of it but there’s definitely at least one of those). You are surrounded by hard-right rhetoric from birth, your parents are racist, your friends at school are racist, your teachers are homophobic, you go to a church with anti-woke sermons, your media consumption is hard-right radio, hard-right TV, hard-right newspapers; you’d have to be an exceptionally-gifted logical thinker to escape the pull of that way of thinking. I sometimes wonder, how much agency does a person like that have in the views they acquire?

          • @TrismegistusMx
            4•1 year ago

            My opinion is that I’m glad they grew into better people, but also they should never be in charge of anything ever. They were supported and uplifted in their ignorance. If they’re truly changed people, they would devote their lives to returning their undeserved blessings.