Michele Bachmann Should Probably Not Talk About Slavery
It's hard to believe that Michele Bachmann is still a thing. She's a former member of Congress who once confused John Wayne Gacy with John Wayne. Her husband, Marcus, owned a clinic accused of pushing bogus "pray away the gay" therapy. I'm unsure if he still has that clinic, but it didn't work on him. So, she's back saying stupid shit to celebrate Independence Day.
Bachmann claimed on the "Christian" program Flashpoint that the enslavement of Black people in the U.S. was not a "sinful" part of the nation's founding, even though it certainly was.
"Well, I think sometimes when evil comes into the world and when falsehoods come into our nation, people react to that," she said. "There's the 1619 Project that came in, and that is a rewriting of American history, a false view of American history. And a lot of people were absolutely appalled by that."
She jumped on the culture war bandwagon, claiming that students today are falsely taught that America was "sinful from our inception." She said that's false because slavery existed in the original 13 colonies when the war for independence broke out.
"They're taught things that aren't true, that America is a hateful country, that we were sinful from our inception," she insisted. "That isn't true. And so there's a whole 'nother group who are interested in knowing what the truth is."
"And so they're very motivated, and they're active and wanting to get the truth out to people," she added.
Can conservatives just agree that slavery is bad, then leave it at that, please, and thank you?