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Originally posted by Orson ↑

Thanks for that link.

Have got about halfway through it and can see that I only knew about a third of Prescott Bush's links to German companies. While I focused on the UBC, I wasn't aware of the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company and their connections to slave labour from Auschwitz, for instance. So apologies if I was being flippant - I thought Prescott was more in keeping with Joe Kennedy and dozens of American companies who thought Britain was gone and it was only sensible to make money with the new player in town, the Nazis. You're right. He seems more compliy his cit.

And yes, you're right about the Democrats being terrible on civil rights until the 1960s and of course Lincoln was a Republican. But when racism was finally being called out it was Goldwater and the conservatives in the Republican Party that threw a cloak of respectability over people who were openly racist. Being a libertarian, he opposed desegregation and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, calling if "federal overreach". A bit similar to the "state rights" excuse of Confederates in the Civil War, when faced with the thought of not being able to use and abuse an entire race of people as a business resource.

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