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Marcuse

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30. Slavery was a hoax.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Sep 15, 2025, 07:30 PM

Sep 2025

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Trump officials order removal of photograph of enslaved man's scars [View all] BumRushDaShow Sep 2025 OP

MAGA needs their History sugar-coated eShirl Sep 2025 #1

whitewashed sheshe2 Sep 2025 #18

Really putting the "white" in whitewashing DrFunkenstein Sep 2025 #2

How are we going to undo any of this? debsy Sep 2025 #16

It figures. Paladin Sep 2025 #3

White supremacy The Wizard Sep 2025 #4

They will likely eliminate all mention of Wounded Knee or Sand Creek and moniss Sep 2025 #5

Hiding these historical facts, pictures or documents will not make them disappear..we will still own them Deuxcents Sep 2025 #6

Re-Writing history. Period. Evolve Dammit Sep 2025 #7

Just like in 1984. We're living it now. raccoon Sep 2025 #21

Yes indeed. Didn't take that long either. 9 months? They are the terrorists Evolve Dammit Sep 2025 #34

Aside from the obvious (racist creeps), what would the reasoning be behind that?! C Moon Sep 2025 #8

From the excerpt BumRushDaShow Sep 2025 #10

The scars sort of go against the fantasy that slavery was actually good for the slaves. Jim__ Sep 2025 #9

Don't want to denigrate all those "Historic American" slave owners. They were such fine people. Botany Sep 2025 #11

I hate Donald J. Trump. USS_Dauntless Sep 2025 #12

A million times over. Joinfortmill Sep 2025 #22

... Solly Mack Sep 2025 #13

Dwight D. Eisenhower 1945 comment on the Holocaust: Bayard Sep 2025 #14

I'd never seen that Eisenhower comment. BattleRow Sep 2025 #23

+100 Duppers Sep 2025 #31

Hide history, hide the truth surfered Sep 2025 #15

Let's all take turns making up history and facts. sinkingfeeling Sep 2025 #17

Asshole Fucking Treasonous Racists! Cha Sep 2025 #19

They can't hide the truth. What despicable monsters. I hate them. Joinfortmill Sep 2025 #20

This shit needs to stop. Gimpyknee Sep 2025 #24

"Sanitizing" history for the new Jim Crow Era. thought crime Sep 2025 #25

I want that piece of excrement to come back in his next life as a Black man in 1840 with LoisB Sep 2025 #26

I remember years ago seeing this and now they want to hide what was the result of slavery? kimbutgar Sep 2025 #27

Try to imagine the extreme pettiness to seek out photos like this and hide them Grins Sep 2025 #28

I have never seen that...... a kennedy Sep 2025 #29

Slavery was a hoax. Marcuse Sep 2025 #30

Authoritarian regimes J_William_Ryan Sep 2025 #32

Mr. Gordon was enlisting in the Union Army when photographed. Kid Berwyn Sep 2025 #33

That picture makes me cry. The regime's removal of it makes me cry even harder. Clouds Passing Sep 2025 #35

That photo is widely available in many books on the Civil War Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2025 #36

_ LudwigPastorius Sep 2025 #37