Kennystillalive@feddit.org to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 2 months agoIt's funny and terrifying at the same time to see the US Empire crumbling in real time.feddit.orgimagemessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up1532arrow-down114
arrow-up1518arrow-down1imageIt's funny and terrifying at the same time to see the US Empire crumbling in real time.feddit.orgKennystillalive@feddit.org to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square74fedilink
minus-squarekeegomatic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoIt’s confusingly worded, but I think they were saying “they” as in “America” were having a civil rights movement (60s), and that the Nazi successors started the war on drugs to undermine and destroy it.
minus-squareandros_rex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-22 months agoTop Nixon aide and Watergate conspirator John Ehrlichman. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” Lee Atwater on the Southern Strategy (1980s, in the Reagan White House): You start out in 1954 by saying, “N_gger, n_gger, n_gger.” By 1968 you can’t say “n_gger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N_gger, n_gger.”
It’s confusingly worded, but I think they were saying “they” as in “America” were having a civil rights movement (60s), and that the Nazi successors started the war on drugs to undermine and destroy it.
Top Nixon aide and Watergate conspirator John Ehrlichman.
Lee Atwater on the Southern Strategy (1980s, in the Reagan White House):
Yep.