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-Great Cultural Revolution
CNN blasted for 'clickbait conspiracy theories' over Abraham Lincoln piece
2021-03-19
[NYPOST] CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
 is accused of pushing "clickbait conspiracy theories" with its deep dive into whether Abraham Lincoln was a racist — and concluding that the answer is "complicated."

The lengthy "analysis" was published Sunday under the headline "Did Black lives matter to Abraham Lincoln? It’s complicated" and penned by enterprise news hound John Blake.

It delves into the 16th president’s "complex and evolving" legacy, noting that in recent years, Honest Abe’s perception of black and Native Americans has been called into question.
By insignificant trash who're not fit to wipe his ass
"If some of Lincoln’s public utterances about Blacks were retweeted today, he would have been canceled on social media and likely run out of office," Blake writes in the article, which coincides with a six-part podcast series on Lincoln’s legacy.

The piece was bashed by political satirist Tim Young, who accused the network of trying to save its dwindling viewership since President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
 left office by finding "a new boogeyman."

"CNN is officially jumping the shark with this new take that Lincoln was a racist — which is the final nail in the coffin for them being able to call themselves a news organization — now they’re just clickbait conspiracy theories," Young told Fox News. "Anything for a buck, including calling the president who ended slavery racist. Way to prove why no one should ever believe a thing that’s ever on your network."
Posted by:Fred

#7   Tear down that memorial.

You forgot to add ;-) or /sarcasm, Clem.

It doesn’t matter if Mr. Lincoln thought Blacks were inferior, so long as he thought they were entitled to the same rights and freedoms as white citizens and was willing to act to ensure they got them. After that, he was content to let individual ability and ambition do for them what it had done for him — a mostly self-taught backwoods nobody who’d risen to be president of the United States.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-03-19 16:32  

#6  FOAD, Clem.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-03-19 12:19  

#5  old Abe is not around to defend himself and historians are afraid to open their mouths. This is clearly an effort by the woke community to get non-woke people to believe they are racists since George Washington, Abraham Lincoln... are now considered racists.
Posted by: Airandee   2021-03-19 12:03  

#4  There are some subjects that cannot be discussed rationally in public and often in private and that has been the case for at least the last eighty years and probably much longer. Among these is slavery. It is and has been taboo for the last century for anyone to say anything positive about slavery in the United States, and that is what makes the anger of former slaves and some of their descendents at Lincoln unintelligible today.
Lincoln freed the slaves. But slaves had rights guaranteed by law, in the South. To free a slave required that the slave agree to it. Freeing them all deprived slaves of rights previously guaranteed to them (obligations of slave owners to them). Some slaves were angry at losing those rights.
Since the rights can never be mentioned in public, almost nobody today knows what they were angry about.
Posted by: daniel    2021-03-19 11:51  

#3  Lincoln was a scum bag. Tear down that memorial.
Posted by: Clem   2021-03-19 10:38  

#2  He considered everyone deserving of moral consideration and to be self-directed humans. That places him far, far above the modern left, who consider non-whites subhumans incapable of doing anything but reacting to white actions.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-03-19 07:45  

#1  Next target: MLK. "Content of character" be rayciss.
Posted by: Wheresh Glamble1686   2021-03-19 00:57  

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