Comments by "Geeky Radical" (@geekyradical4985) on "Biographics" channel.

  1. If only Johnson hadn't been so committed to an unwinnable war, his forceful personality might have achieved universal health care for the United States.
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  2. Yeah, Kennedy's role in civil rights is pretty overrated.
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  3. Yeah, if only he wasn't so committed to an unwinnable war, he could have achieved universal health care for the United States and been remembered even more fondly as US President.
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  4.  @roxarecool  Ending segregation, allowing millions of Americans to overcome poverty and giving minorities the right to vote among other things. You haven't learned about that in school yet?
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  5.  @brandon4379  Isn't Desouza a well known propagandist? I mean, he made Death of a Nation and appeared on PragerU, basically the Fox News of YouTube.
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  6.  @DavidSmith-op8ix  Well, he was a self-declared democratic socialist. The fact that he wrote one of the most famous summaries of the flaws of communism shows that he had a very open mind.
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  7.  @Infamous1892  He didn't hate them enough not to put an end to segregation and introduce the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
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  8. "We have deluded ourselves into believing that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice. The fact is that capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor-both black and white, here and abroad." -Martin Luther King Jr.
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  9. Lyndon Johnson: Waged a war against racial discrimination despite massive political opposition. Comments: "Was he really a civil rights President?"
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  10.  @tjanderson5892  He obviously wasn't racist enough not to be a radical civil rights reformer. He obviously wasn't perfect, but you gotta respect his accomplishments as US President, right? He was a great President, regardless of how good a person he was.
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  11.  @rojoskies81  Why are you so triggered over your precious Confederate monuments being removed? You just can't stand to acknowledge American history, a digraceful history of slavery and white supremacy.
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  12.  @dangreene9846  You lot would definitely be condemning him as a bloodthirsty Bolshevik for his socialist beliefs. I mean, you reactionaries would label him as a woke SJW for his civil rights activism alone.
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  13. What do you mean? The Democratic Party has overwhelmingly more support than Republicans from minorities and nominated the first African American US President. Lyndon Johnson was a pretty radical civil rights reformer. He famously waged a war against racial discrimination, and was pretty passionate and aggressive in gaining support for his reforms to say the least, despite massive political opposition. Specifically in the case of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. He also worked pretty closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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  14.  @brandon4379  What do you mean? The Democratic Party has overwhelmingly more support than Republicans from minorities and nominated the first African American US President.
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  15.  @Infamous1892  What do you mean? Lyndon Johnson was a pretty radical civil rights reformer who famously waged a war against racial discrimination, despite massive political opposition, and was pretty passionate and aggressive in gaining support for his reforms to say the least. Specifically in the case of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. He also worked pretty closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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  16. Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty with his social welfare programmes allowed millions of Americans to overcome poverty. If only he wasn't so committed to an unwinnable war, his forceful personality could have achieved universal health care for the United States and he'd be remembered even more fondly as US President.
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  17. You lot would definitely be condemning him as a bloodthirsty Bolshevik for his socialist beliefs. I mean, you reactionaries would label him as a woke SJW for his civil rights activism alone.
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  18.  American Paisa  Then why did the southern and northern American states switch from Democrat to Republican?
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  19.  @molonlabe820  If it didn't change since then, it wouldn't have gone from the party of slavery and white supremacy to the party that has overwhelmingly the most support from minorities and nominated the first African American US President. The Republican Party's now the party that defends the Confederacy, has the most support from the south and been vocally endorsed by the KKK.
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  20.  @cajunrcfamily6188   How did the Republican Party go from the party of Abraham Lincoln to the party that opposes the removal of Confederate flags and statues, and has far more support from the southern states and the KKK? It's generally accepted that the parties switched and not just by folks in the US.
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  21.  @ThorfinnSkullsplitter-fz7ff  You reactionaries would be condemning Martin Luther King as an anarchist criminal for his socialist beliefs. I mean, you'd be branding him as a woke SJW for his civil rights activism alone.
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  22.  @brandon4379  The bunker boy vocally opposed the movement to rename Confederate-themed military bases. I gave you the link, but I guess it didn't appear publicly so just look it up.
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  23.  @cajunrcfamily6188   If the parties supposedly didn't switch, how did the Democratic Party go from the party of slavery and white supremacy to the party that has overwhelmingly more support from minorities and the party that nominated the first African American US President?
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  24.  @molonlabe820  'Cause it's changed since then.
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  25.  @jeenkzk5919  What do you mean? The Democratic Party has overwhelmingly more support than Republicans from minorities and nominated the first African American US President.
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  26.  American Paisa   The Republican Party now has far more support from the south than the north and the KKK now overwhelmingly supports the Republican Party.
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  27.  American Paisa   It also now tends to be Republicans who brandish Confederate flags and protest removing Confederate statues. I mean, Donald Trump vocally opposed the movement to rename Confederate-themed military bases. Now are you still gonna deny that the parties switched? LOL.
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  28.  @Kaboomboo  I guess there's discrimination within all of us, but Lyndon Johnson was certainly open-minded for his time. His reforms weren't just going with the flow. He obviously wasn't perfect, but you gotta respect his achievements as US President. His social welfare programmes also allowed millions of Americans to overcome poverty. If only he wasn't so committed to an unwinnable war, he could have achieved universal health care for the United States and been remembered even more fondly.
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  29. I'm sure Japan loves him....OH, WAIT!
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  30. You're a fascist
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  31.  @AtlasReburdened  Are you for socialism or against it? First you criticize BLM for being 'Marxist', then you respect the judgement of Malcolm X, a socialist.
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  32.  @Alex-dc3xp  'The confederates had a terrible oppressive system for blacks (which was also bad for poor whites as slavery stopped the development of a middle class'. In other words, the Confederacy had a hyper-capitalist system that allowed rich slave owners to prosper and hoard wealth at the expense of the downtrodden. The capitalists of today now treat basic human rights like health and education as commodities, like they treated human beings as commodities in the nineteenth century. As Martin Luther King Jr said: "We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice. The fact is that capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor-both black and white, here and abroad".
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  33.  @Dominknows  He was a socialist but he wasn't exactly a communist. Although he was staunchly anti-capitalist, he disagreed with the Atheist nature of Marxism among other things. In his words, "In short, I read Marx as I read all of the influential historical thinkers-from a dialectical point of view, combining a partial yes and a partial no. Insofar as Marx posited a metaphysical materialism, and ethical relativism, and a strangulation totalitarianism, I responded with an unambiguous no; but insofar as he pointed to the weakness of traditional capitalism, contributed to the growth of a definite self-conscience of the Christian churches, I responded with a definite yes."
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  34.  @Kurtlane  Well, socialism isn't always as extreme as communism.
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  35.  @oslang1  Well, Lyndon Johnson was a pretty radical civil rights reformer. He famously waged a war against racial discrimination, and was pretty passionate and aggressive in gaining support for his reforms to say the least, despite massive political opposition. Specifically in the case of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. He also worked pretty closely with Martin Luther King Jr. His battle against poverty with his social welfare programmes allowed millions of Americans to overcome poverty. If only he hadn't been so committed to an unwinnable war, he might have achieved universal health care for the United States and he'd be remembered even more fondly as US President.
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  36.  @jamier65551  Well, he obviously wasn't perfect, but you gotta respect his achievements as US President, right?
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  37.  American Paisa  LOL. Just ask yourself the question, which party does the KKK fanatically fawn over now? The Virginia Battle flag is a Confederate flag. It wasn't the only one, but it's a flag of Robert Lee's army, an army that fought to conserve slavery and white supremacy.
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  38.  @chrisoleary9876   The KKK now has vastly more support for the Republican Party than Democrats and Republicans have far more support in the southern American states in which segregation and the activities of the KKK have consistently been far more popular than in the south throughout history.
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  39.  @chrisoleary9876   It also now tends to be Republicans who brandish Confederate flags and protest removing Confederate statues. I mean, Donald Trump vocally opposed the movement to ban Confederate flags. Now are you still gonna deny that the parties switched? LOL.
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  40. Well, Lyndon Johnson's battle against poverty with his social welfare programmes allowed millions of Americans to overcome poverty. If only he hadn't been so committed to an unwinnable war, he might have achieved universal health care for the United States and he'd be remembered even more fondly as US President.
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  41. Well, it was around that time that Republicans like Goldwater and Nixon tried to and ultimately succeeded in increasing support among white southerners by appealing to racial discrimination.
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  42.  @ChickenPermissionOG  When folks mention the Southern Strategy, they're usually referring to how Republicans like Nixon and Goldwater tried to and ultimately succeeded in increasing support from white southerners by appealing to racial discrimination. Do you understand?
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  43.  @Kaboomboo   What do you mean? He was a pretty radical civil rights reformer who famously waged a war against racial discrimination, and was pretty passionate and aggressive in gaining support for his reforms to say the least.
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  44.  American Paisa  BLM: Protest 'cause police killed innocent black person. Red hats: "OMG! Those black supremacists are so triggered over nothing!"
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  45.  American Paisa  If you're against the removal of Confederate statues, I don't know what to tell you apart from that museums are probably the best place for those. You don't find any statues dedicated to Nazis in Germany. They're rightfully forbidden. And you're saying Democrats and BLM are the neo Confederates. Saying 'all lives matter' in response to Black Lives Matter is like saying, 'I have a birthday too' at someone else's birthday party.
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  46. Lyndon Johnson's Great Society allowed millions of Americans to overcome poverty. If only he wasn't so committed to an unwinnable war, he could have achieved universal health care for the United States and been remembered even more fondly as US President.
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  47.  @roxarecool  Yeah, the poverty line in the US dropped from forty million in 1959 to twenty eight million in 1968. That's how significant Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty was. I'd say the only thing he wasn't effective at was avoiding commitment to an unwinnable war in Vietnam.
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  48. Yeah, if only he hadn't been so committed to an unwinnable war, he might have achieved universal health care for the United States and be remembered even more fondly as US President.
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  49. My guess is it's mainly just red hats who equate government helpfulness with enslavement and government incompetence with sovereignty.
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  50. Oh yeah, sure. You mean John Lewis, Martin Luther King's friend and fellow civil rights activist who vocally endorsed BLM before his death? He sure hated him. LOL.
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