MAMEWorld Forums - Welcome to the War Room - Symbols of slavery, and reparations

My first post in the War Room.

Going to stick to historical facts and pose a philosophical question based on that.

People are pushing for the removal of Thomas Jefferson statues because of his stand on slavery. I’m not opposed to the idea, but I will point out a glaring irony. Thomas Jeferson founded the Democratic Party to be the political party advocating for slavery in opposition to the Republican party who fought to abolish slavery.

The Democratic party, aside from being racist in its founding, has a long history of deep seated oppression and racism including opposing the Republican backed Women’s Suffrage, filibustering the Republican backed Civil Rights Act, and more.

Shouldn’t then the people be calling to abolish the Democratic Party itself for its long deep-seated history of oppression and racism?

And for that matter, any complaint regarding the history of slavery or the confederacy as a whole is entirely a Democratic Party history problem. Any calls for reparations should be a call for the offending Democratic Party to pay reparations, not all of the US, which as an institution was so opposed to slavery, it went to war against its own people to abolish it.

Discuss.