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Originally Posted by eddie gein
Spare us with this stuff. Anybody with a brain knows what happened. If you guys were seriously outraged about the democratic racism "back in the day" you'd be getting Ben Tillman's name off the most famous building on your beloved Clemson campus because he was one of the worst of the worst of the democratic racists.
But since the GOP in South Carolina is nothing but the great grandchildren of the Ben Tillmans of that era you would go to the mat defending Tillman's name stay on the building.
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The only people who can remove the name is the Clemson Board of Trustee who I suspect are majority Democrat. The only reason you assume they are Republican is you are a liberal partisan Democrat. Just b/c SC is majority Republican doesn't mean the Clemson board is a majority Republican.
Most people who don't want the name change are not racist. It has nothing to do with wanting to honor Tillman who has been dead for over 100 years.
I have no problem with the building name being changed. It is funny how you think you know what I think. You got yourself a fancy mind reading machine there., partisan liberal Democrat person.
It is crazy how much you talk about Clemson on here given you have no connection to the school. It is weird to me you even know the name of a building at Clemson much less virtue signal about it.
SC flipped to Republican because of transplants who moved here as it industrialized. SC's population is around 10 percent of the population it had at the end of the Civil War. To say we are all grandchildren of Tillman could not be true. Even if we are the grandchildren of Tillman, that doesn't we are racist.
I note this has nothing to do with the topic which is about a racist Democrat. You'd rather talk about a dead Democrat and link him to the GOP even though his views on essentially every issue were similar to FDR and other New Dealers. Nobody would ever confused Pitchfork Ben Tillman with Ronald Reagan. Most of the white racist Democrats back in the day were FDR New Dealers which makes it hard to believe they would flip to GOP.
Your theory that racists flipped to GOP is baseless. GOP does not have racist policies and it would make no sense for the GOP to embrace white racism AFTER popular support for it dwindled. SC isn't anything like it was during TIllman's day.
AL Gore's father was a racist Senator who along with with another Democratic senator Robert KKK Byrd filibustered the 1960's civil rights legislation. Neither of them switched to GOP. By your own logic, Al Gore was a racist. GOP would have never nominated the son of a segregationist.
Bill Clinton's mentor in Arkansas was the former segregationist Democratic Senator William Fullbright. Clinton awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.