The presidentās speech at a South Carolina church did not go over well with the GOP candidate.
Joe Biden gave a speech in South Carolina on Monday, and Nikki Haley isnāt happy about it. Specifically, sheās not happy about the part where the president called her out for her extremely cringeworthy comments about the Civil War, saying, āLet me be clear, for those who donāt seem to know: Slavery was the cause of the Civil War.ā
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The issue of the Civil Warāand her commentary on itāhas come up for Haley in the past. While running for governor of South Carolina in 2010, she described the war as a matter of two sides fighting over ātraditionā and āchange,ā adding that the Confederate flag was ānot something that is racist.ā She also claimed there was no reason to take the flag down from the statehouse grounds (until five years later, after the mass shooting at the Charleston church). After Haleyās gaffe in December, Jaime Harrison, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, said that her failure to mention slavery was ānot stunning if you were a Black resident in SC when she was Governor.ā
āTraditionā is one of the shittiest reasons Iāve ever heard of to maintain slavery.
You aināt wrong, but at the same time, if we define ātraditionā as ādoing certain things certain ways because weāve always done those things those ways, and we donāt want to changeā, then I guess theyāre not wrong eitherā¦but by the same rationale, that same social inertia is also the reason we have climate science deniers, racists, homophobes, misogynists, xenophobes, and bigots of all other shapes and sizes. Basically: theyāre used to it being accepted to do things we now know to be problematic, and rather than change, theyād simply rather not changeā¦for no better reason than not changing means continuing to do things the way theyāve always done them.
āTraditionā is by definition the opposite of āprogressā
It can be, but plenty of traditions are harmless things people find value in.