And those who insist on dismissing his comments as harmless or "meaningless" can therefore be interpretted as Lott/Dixiecrat apologists in my opinion.
How could you possibly have known any of this. Like the rest of America you had no idead what the Dixiecrat Party was or what platform Thurmond ran on.
You were eventually told what to infer from these remarks and that's what you did.
But you were not content to infer that Lott was a segregationist after being told that's what he meant. You had to go a step further and impugn anybody that dared defend Lott as segregationists themselves.
There's a word for that Jorge, it's called racebaiting.
You were eventually told what to infer from these remarks and that's what you did.
Right. None of us could understand;
"I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigger race into our theatres into our swimming pools into our homes and into our churches."---Strom Thurmond, presidential candidate, 1948
We had to be told what it really meant.
Are you trying to make me laugh on purpose or what?