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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Andrew Jackson was Trail of Tears, but I actually think Andrew Johnson was arguably worse. He was Lincoln's Democrat vice president (he was brought on to help "balance the ticket" instead of sticking with his strongly abolitionist first term VP Hannibal Hamlin), who started dismantling reconstruction and giving the power back to the former slaveowners.

You can pretty much lay Jim Crow at his feet.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

kinda hard to argue apartheid is worse than genocide imo