On Tuesday, May 19, the U.S. House passed H.R. 2616, the “Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act,” by a vote of 217-198. The bill would hand the Trump administration enormous leverage to strip federal funding from any school that “teaches or advances concepts” related to transgender people, codifying into federal law the anti-trans definitions from Trump’s executive order 14168, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism.” It would also require public schools to forcibly out transgender students to their parents before using their pronouns or chosen names. The bill is significant on its own terms for the harm it would inflict on transgender youth if it became law. But what made Tuesday’s vote especially notable was the eight Democrats who joined every Republican to pass it—the largest Democratic defection on any standalone anti-trans bill of this Congress.
Yeah, you might want to look up Frederick Douglas.
Ex-slave, Douglas was a big advocate for abolition.
In 1860 Douglas had a choice between supporting a candidate who was for immediate abolition, or supporting Abe Lincoln. Lincoln wasn’t advocating instant abolition.
Douglas decided that it was smarter to support Lincoln. Lincoln has a much better chance of winning, and Douglas would be able to advocate his stance to the actual President, instead of being locked out.
That’s a bad example because Lincoln was an abolitionist himself but you’re applying it to politicians that don’t agree with your stance.
166 years ago, the corruption was easier to spot and check, and people with the right and will to keep and bear arms and the will and ability to use them to “water the tree of liberty” weren’t just the ignorant hicks, even if they did buy into the lie that sold the revo.
Hack job argument, it was clear to many at the time Lincoln didn’t like slavery, it’s why the south was so wound up about it near him. Douglas knew this already and tried pushing Lincoln to go for it, completely different situation. If you hate both side of leadership, leave the country For greener grasses.
Lincoln didn’t gaf and said as much. His goal was only to prevent civil war.
https://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/abraham-lincoln-in-depth/abraham-lincoln-and-slavery/index.html
i’ll leave this here for you, if you want to learn, its there.
https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/abraham-lincoln-quote-about-slavery-is-missing-context-idUSL1N2OQ1LE/
That’s how much he cared.
he chose national stability over civil war, fuck off you moral absolutist, I don’t want to hear your holier then though bullshit. Plenty of people these days make that decision, look at all the people who refuse to do anything about donald, and yes that including the masses of citizens. yall aren’t any better, all talk no action, he did more then most anyone despite that fact and he never approved of the practice to begin with.