A PEDE DID THIS: 'Wuhan Plague' Plaques Are Popping Up Around Atlanta / THEY ARE CALLING THIS RACIST
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They love to pull out "party switch" conspiracy theories whenever you bring this up, but there's a good way to deconstruct them.
When they bring up the party switch, just point out that Democrats were racist when that meant burning crosses and lynching people while Republicans didn't become racist until it meant mean words on Twitter.
I'd also start advocating for the Democratic party to change names. It's legitimately a good idea if they actually care about the evils in their history and yet it would be an expensive distraction for them getting rid of all their name recognition and such, but most people probably don't realize this.
Just try to get them to pin a date on the bullshit party switch and that blows their whole false narrative right out of the water. They can't come up with a date when this claimed switch occurred because it never happened.
I don't understand your meaning about the party switch myth. They were calling Rs racists before Twitter. Can you expand on that?
PragerU has a good video on the myth of the party switch on youtube
https://youtu.be/UiprVX4os2Y
The Democrats founded the KKK and filibustered the Civil Rights Act, in addition to splitting off from the Democrat-Republican party to support slavery. They deny this history via the magic of the "party switch" in which the Republicans magically became the real racists.
My deconstruction of that is to point out that "racism" meant different things, i.e. they were cool with racism when it meant burning crosses and murdering people, but only changed their minds when mean words on Twitter and similar things became "racist".
Other examples of (neo) "racism" include math, milk, the OK sign, etc. All of which you can find articles on from the MSM.
There's a claim out there that the parties switched ideologies at some unspecified date. The fairy tale says that on some magical date all Repubs became Dems and all Dems became Repubs, all at the same time for some unspecified "reasons." It's ridiculous.
When I've gotten into discussions in the past to try and point this out, they will pivot and say that "it happened incrementally" and not all at once. This is to try and get around the discrepancies of multiple decades of contradictions. So having some earlier dates and much later dates in your timeline helps because they can only think in terms of the biggest, most celebrated cultural touchstones. Before and after these moments it's all in flux for them so you need to pin the timeline down in a few points so they can picture it all at once.
Just point out MLK was a republican (and his family still appears at Trump rallies).
Then call them racists.
Be sure to stand clear because the instructions for fireworks still applies before their heads blow off their necks :