During President Trump's administration, Democrats used the filibuster 314 times.

So...by their standards they should all cancel themselves and resign.

lol

The Democrat party is comprised of a bunch of hypocritical losers.

When will Barky f**k off and quit racebaiting?

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So it sounds like you agree that the filibuster is a tool that racists used to maintain Jim Crow.

The proper punctutation is:

The filibuster is a tool. Racists use it to maintain Jim Crow.

The filibuster itself is just a tool.

The fillibuster is a tool. The fillibuster (as currently used) is keeping the Senate from enacting regulations. If my hammer kept clogging the toilet, I'd get a new kind of hammer -- or limit how it could be used.

It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools. Why don't you stop trying to flush your hammer?

A wise craftswoman recognizes when a tool is not appropriate for a given job.

I cannot disagree. Too bad the Senate doesn't have more wise craftswomen, because most regulations are redundant or not enforced.

If a hammer is used to kill someone should we ban all hammers for eternity or just deal with the person who used it to kill someone?

If a specific hammer was used in mass hammer killings and could kill multiple people in a short amount of time without reloading, than yes.

Is the filibuster used in mass killings and can it do so in a short amount of time without reloading? Because I was using the hammer analogy as a way to show Lyoll that the filibuster is nothing but a tool. If a tool makes you a monster, then you were already a monster to begin with. Don't blame the tool. Keep the tool out of the hands of monsters.

(If you want to talk guns, then personally I think it should be paramount that we ensure only mentally sound people get them, but at that point there should be no further restrictions on them. It's a weird stance that angers the right because it restricts who can get guns and it angers the left because they couldn't control who can do what with their guns, but I'll stand by it to the bitter end.)

no it doesn't. not even close. seems perfectly obvious to me and everyone I've shown this to, that the OP is pointing out leftist hypocrisy

could you elaborate?? could you copy/paste the words used in the post that led you to that conclusion?

The words that led me to that conclusion were "THE LONGEST FILIBUSTER WAS 57 DAYS BY THE DEMOCRATS IN OPPOSITION TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT." That's an example of the filibuster being used to maintain a racist system.
As to their party, I'm not concerned: Most of those old Dixiecrats became Republican. (See Strom Thurmond.)

I am perfectly willing to concede to you the fact that the Dixiecrats (the Southern conservative Democrats of the era between slavery and the Civil Rights era) were a party of racism. The Democratic party had a schism between people who thought explicit racism and white supremacy was okay and those who didn't, and the anti-racists won. Now it's the Republicans' turn, and I'm rooting for the anti-racists there, too.

the fact that you put "conservative" in the middle of "Southern Democrats" tells me you're telling fibs :p

Anyhoos...you're right about the Dems and the South but way off mark with your comments about today's Republicans.

I spent most of my life as a socialist, I can honestly say over the last five years of Trump, I have never seen or engaged with a racist Republican/Conservative/Libertarian or anything else *not* left-wing. Never. Not even when i frequented /pol/

YOU are the racists now, just as "antifa" are the fascists

You did know that fascism was a left-wing doctrine, right?!? Hitler was a leftist? Mussolini was a marxist? you did know this, yeah????

There was a flip on this issue after the civil rights act was passed

The topic of the meme is the filibuster, and the Democrats used it 314 times during President Trump's administration, but now they say it is a racist tool.

However, if you are referring to civil rights in this country, then all I can say is, was there really a flip?

Which side judges people by color, ethnicity, and gender and not by their character?
Which side wants segregated dorms and segregated college graduations?
Which side thinks minorities are too stupid to get an ID to vote?
Which side thinks minorities are too stupid to know how to register to vote, so they need automatic voter registration?
Which side thinks that minorities are too stupid to compete with Whites and Asians so the standards should be lowered so minorities can compete?
Which side thinks that minorities are too stupid to handle their own ballots and so they need ballot harvesting?
Which side built low-income housing ghettos so the minorities could be better controlled and made more dependent on the government?
Which side wants to limit the poor from having two-parent households, so they make it so the father can't stay in the house in order to collect welfare?
Which side wants fewer police in minority neighborhoods so that the crime rates remain high and the neighborhoods deteriorate?
Which side wants more unskilled workers in the country so there is a permanent serf class and unemployment remains high and wages remain low for unskilled workers?

The democrats are the party of low expectations for minorities and think that, like children, minorities need to be taken care of by them?

The democrats want to control every aspect of our lives, from healthcare to housing, to food and education, just as they did with their slaves?

Sorry, a leopard can not change their spots and the democrats are still racists.

With the two most diverse Administrations ever.

The Democratic Party as a whole: Far more diverse from top to bottom, at every level from the grassroots to the top, than the GOP.

This is indeed curious to anyone unfamiliar with the historical trajectory of the Democratic Party on the issue of race. The Civil Rights Act (passed by LBJ, a Democratic President, with bipartisan support and over bipartisan opposition) set the trajectory for the decades to come.

It is possible for any organization to get over its racist past.

They're "far more diverse" because they actively discriminate against Whites ...but I'm curious, how do you suppose the Dems will acknowledge and come to terms with, their racism. past and present?

Bidens VP is not black. Get your reaces right, or to you all people of brown color are black? Stop being so racist.

Kamala Harris is of half Jamaican parentage, descended from African slaves.

According to you lot until her nomination last year, people of Indian descent are - or rather, WERE - so-called "Black."

Heck, not only have I've been schooling y'all on that in my years here, just 2 days ago I was doing the same for that Boulder shooter because, since he's from Syria, suddenly switched from being so-called "White" to being, um, what again?

Keep your bogus narratives straight.

That makes her mixed, not black. Jamaican black people are not equal to US black people, they did not go through US history slavery and oppression.

Oh no! Are you another Social Media User Misrepresenting Kamala Harris’ Racial Identity?

Or as you might say: “reacial” identity?

Read & discover

So, we can agree she is mixed, not black. That scenario you are presenting is just like the comedian Ralphie May, a white dude pulling the black card because his grand dad was black. And the context is, black people oppressed by slavery and racial war in the United States... Jamaican blacks are excluded from it, unless they served as slaves in the US at some point (which was not the case with Kamala and her father), so she can't identify/associate with US black people. We can also agree that she was elected by her skin colors and not her qualifications.... And and that she is a hypocrite as she talked a lot of crap about Biden prior VP offer, but when VP offer was given to her they magically became best bodies. Can we all not agree on that?

1. No, we can't agree on that. "Mixed" is not a defined category of race. It's a dodge. It doesn't tell you much of anything. And it's a transparent and deliberate attempt by Harris's critics to separate her from her African-American identity. Same exact shit conservatives did to Obama.

Kamala Harris is Jamaican and Indian. That means she is... wait for it...

Jamaican AND Indian.

She identifies as both, and further identifies as African-American because she is an American with black Jamaican ancestors. She the actual DNA to back up all of her claims. That means she is what she says she is.

She is black. She is African-American. She is (simply) American. She is South Asian. She is a woman. She's an ex-prosecutor, ex-U.S. Senator, and Vice-President. She is all those things, and none of them are mutually exclusive.

2. No, we can't agree that Harris was "elected by her skin colors" since she has actual governing and prosecutorial experience and is a talented public speaker. But if you believe that, then you also ought to believe that the totally unqualified Trump was "elected by his skin color" (whites voting for the whitest dude in the room, etc.).

And that's a segway into your last point:

3. Talking crap about other politicians during the primary campaign is standard politician stuff. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul -- they all talked crap about Trump before eventually kneeling and kissing the ring.

sure, whatever you want to believe.