• Hildegarde@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 years ago

    Funny how these texts from Dubois are omitted from history books in USA, same as the socialist views of MLK Jr.

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      4 years ago

      Yep. WEB Dubois gets mentioned passingly in US schools, Robeson not at all, and only during black history month.

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    1 year ago

    That’s quite the hot take on a man who’s in the same league as Hitler for murdering his own citizens…

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      1 year ago

      You understand that equating Stalin to Hitler is a tactic used by neo-nazis, right? You have 10 seconds to comment “I am not a nazi, neo or otherwise, and I praise the USSR every day for hunting them down to the last one” or you’ll get banned

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        1 year ago

        Wow. Way to insult me / something I have no ability to change. I have changed my opinion on Stalin due to your thoughtful reply. /s

        du Bois was an important leader but I would like to hope he made these comments on Stalin before he knew about the millions of dead ethnic Russians killed by Stalin.

        • diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          but I would like to hope he made these comments on Stalin before he knew about the millions of dead ethnic Russians killed by Stalin.

          How could he know about it? The U$ propaganda wasn’t written yet.