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To: cockroach_magoo

“I honestly don’t know where you’re coming from, other than wanting to be disagreeable.”

You repeated a historical falsehood, probably innocently, and I corrected the record. There is no shame there.

After doubling down, your rational answer tank ran out of fuel. No shame there either as far as I’m concerned.


52 posted on 05/27/2022 6:29:52 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem
Excerpt from USA Today fact check:

"Historians are clear that the Republican Party was founded, in large part, as an anti-slavery party."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/05/29/fact-check-republican-party-founding-rooted-geography-more-than-slavery/5278166002/

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Excerpt from Politico article on founding of the Republican Party:

"On this day in 1854, Alvan E. Bovay (1818-1903) called an anti-slavery meeting at the Congregational Church in Ripon, the Wisconsin town where he practiced law. [...] A similar meeting had taken place a week earlier in Jackson, Mich. Both groups dubbed themselves 'Republicans' "

https://www.politico.com/story/2008/02/republican-party-founded-on-february-28-1854-008726

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Excerpt from Wikipedia entry on "Republican Party of Wisconsin:"

"The meeting held in Ripon, Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is commonly cited as the birth of the Republican Party in the United States due to it being the first publicized anti-slavery meeting to propose a new party with its name being Republican."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Wisconsin

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Excerpt from Birthplace of the Republican Party NHS:

"This little white schoolhouse is also where a meeting was held to oppose slavery and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill and also where Alvan E. Bovay gave the name “Republican” to a new political party."

https://ripon1854.com/about-us/

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I made a statement about the founding of the Republican Party.  Here I offer multiple references from mainstream / left-leaning sources to support my statement.  You have offered claims (without evidence) of white supremacy, and non sequitur evidence involving Abraham Lincoln and the Corwin Amendment.

Why do I say non sequitur?  Abraham Lincoln was not involved in the founding of the Republican Party, and the Corwin Amendment was considered after the founding of the Republican Party.  Do you deny these facts?  Or do you acknowledge these facts and admit that you just don't understand how logic works?

56 posted on 05/28/2022 6:16:22 AM PDT by cockroach_magoo
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