Reply #6: No, actually I'm trying to inform people of the real history of the civil rights movement

[HamdenRice]

If you think that presenting actual facts about history makes me a "jerk" in your eyes, I suggest the problem is in your eyes. Historical facts are what they are.

I've seen many comparisons between the current issue and the civil rights era. The problem is that almost all those comparisons get the history of the civil rights era spectacularly wrong, and it is distressing how little historical knowledge an otherwise well informed community actually possesses.

If you're going to use the civil rights era as a comparison, don't you think you should know what actually happened? Or is it better to rely on historical fantasies about the civil rights era?