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  • Sotuanduso@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldGlorious
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    8 months ago

    I’ve never heard of this until now, so take it with several grains of salt.

    I’d imagine the complaints stem from the fact that she was never in charge of the country.
    But then they should have complained when Ben Franklin was announced.
    Or maybe they did complain when Ben Franklin was announced, but you can’t really go “look at these bigots hating on Benjamin Franklin,” so that wasn’t shared around as much.
    Of course even if that were the case, there would be people who draw the line at Tubman and not Franklin anyways, which could be a case of actual bigotry.
    Or maybe a significant subset of the audience wasn’t taught in school that Tubman was that influential, and sees this as blowing a historical figure out of proportion.





  • Sotuanduso@lemm.eetohopeposting@lemmy.worldIt will get better
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    9 months ago

    What are you trying to accomplish by saying this? Do you want people to give up? Hope does not stop people from making things better. If anything, it gives you the strength to carry on. It’s not too late. Trump simply doesn’t have the backing to do anything to the Constitution if he wanted to - there’s not enough red in house or senate to propose an amendment (it takes 2/3,) and not even half of the states have a red enough legislature to ratify it unless it’s actually reasonable (it takes 3/4.) So he can do some damage, yes, but we are not at the tipping point. Democracy isn’t going anywhere.