As an historian, I can confirm Nikki Haley’s brave declaration that South Carolina has a “big history” with slavery. - ThreadSky

kevinmkruse.bsky.social • 423 days ago

As an historian, I can confirm Nikki Haley’s brave declaration that South Carolina has a “big history” with slavery.

Reposted from Kurt Busiek

It is a very talked about thing.

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cthulul.bsky.social•423 days ago

big if true

williampreston.bsky.social•423 days ago

In your graduate work, were you given a choice between studying big history and little history? Is there also just-right-sized history?

grisinger.bsky.social•423 days ago

First in flight!

gracemwmonk.bsky.social•423 days ago

Thank you for the “an.”

mirandayaver.bsky.social•423 days ago

Can’t believe I missed this tremendous insight by ignoring CNN town halls.

adammc123.bsky.social•423 days ago

that's why she's rising in the polls!!! 11% baby! on to the white house!

cavedweller.bsky.social•423 days ago

In much the same way that Kurt Russel has a "big history" with Goldie Hawn, or how the British Monarch has a "big history" with swans.

slyprofessor.bsky.social•423 days ago

She even worked “I had black friends” in there. Only missing “I don’t see race” and it’s Bingo!

ericnswanson.bsky.social•423 days ago

She had Black friends, you see

rebeccafachner.bsky.social•423 days ago

‘Big’ history.
The hell you say.

toastfuker.bsky.social•423 days ago

Some people say it's a presidential platform

toastfuker.bsky.social•423 days ago

All of that, especially to talk with all your black friends about.

sperfur.bsky.social•423 days ago

Both of them.

Well, one was actually extremely tan. Now that I think about it, they might have been twins...

bsdtectr.bsky.social•423 days ago

“It’s a very talked about thing.”

kevinmkruse.bsky.social•423 days ago

“People say stuff?”

drlynam.bsky.social•423 days ago

Especially some of them.

golux13.bsky.social•423 days ago

She's not getting any better at this, is she?

daveparisi.bsky.social•423 days ago

"I had black friends growing up"

pastbriton.bsky.social•423 days ago

All of that

joehaydu.bsky.social•423 days ago

You know, personally, if I was running for public office, I wouldn’t model my campaign around “Song of the South”, but what do I know?

mrpaulymac.bsky.social•423 days ago

*nods in sage wiseness*
*makes a weird hand tent thing"

sperfur.bsky.social•423 days ago

Mhmm. Mhmm.

Interesting...

renfro.bsky.social•423 days ago

“AN historian”?!

christian-s-warren.bsky.social•423 days ago

Don’t be a An hole, Paul !

kevinmkruse.bsky.social•423 days ago

Excuse me for feeling fancy, Paul

newdealer.bsky.social•423 days ago

It’s the way I learned it, Paul.

armakproductions.com•423 days ago

We are like two news cycles away from some right winger posting “Slavery— big if true”

jennylawson.bsky.social•423 days ago

As a SC-ian who’s been familiar with her for a long time, to say I’ve never been a fan of Haley is putting it EXCEEDINGLY MILDLY, but I continue to be amazed at how badly she’s handling this.

itisgeorge.bsky.social•423 days ago

I hear they made a whole Thing about it? Like Wisconsin with cheese or Canada with hockey?

nooneletgo.bsky.social•423 days ago

As a sentient being, even I picked up on that a while ago.

anti-you.bsky.social•423 days ago

She’s the eloquent one.

kenner3616.bsky.social•423 days ago

Why would Haley answer a question about slavery that way? Note that a woman with “black friends” had no issues saying that Senator Warnock (a black man born in Georgia) should be deported. Doesn’t strike me as something someone who “had black friends” would ever say.

Nikki Haley is disgraceful.

sperfur.bsky.social•423 days ago

Know where else you literally learn about slavery in 2nd or 3rd grade?

Every other state in the US.

andrewparker.bsky.social•423 days ago

Couldn’t help herself from throwing a “I can’t be racist, I had black friends” in there.

dholmes.us•423 days ago

Just in the past tense though; that's a new flourish.

kapdoll.bsky.social•423 days ago

I had heard rumors about their “big history.”

illimij.bsky.social•423 days ago

I hate that she's making me respect Chris Christie.

ernekid.bsky.social•423 days ago

I think its kind of underappreciated that Haley is a complete numbskull

zathras5.bsky.social•423 days ago

Thanks to leaders like Genghis Khan, Joan of Arc, and Socratic Method, the world is full of history.

wattle.bsky.social•423 days ago

pro or con?

la-crystal.bsky.social•423 days ago

Oh, that was another gem. 'Leaders don't decide who's right & who's wrong.' She actually said that (or very nearly exactly those words). So, she thinks sitting on the fence is 'leadership?' I mean, geeeeez - I wanted there to be SOMEone to be competitive for GOP nom, but she's probably not gonna be

illimij.bsky.social•423 days ago

She was quoting Lincoln, I think.

la-crystal.bsky.social•423 days ago

Somehow I don't see Lincoln's position on the Civil War as a fence-sitting one.

thesporkmaster.bsky.social•423 days ago

Big history, she doesn't know a lick of it, but she knows there's a lot of it out there somewhere...

rchris.bsky.social•423 days ago

Nikki is just continuing a proud South Carolina tradition

pedro45fan.bsky.social•423 days ago

"Things happened with the Civil War and all that." True or false, Professor? Did things happen and all that?

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