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Voices: The GOP are now claiming slaves could have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps

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Voices: The GOP are now claiming slaves could have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps

As the GOP’s arguments about slavery show, meritocracy, taken to its logical extremes, ends up functioning as an apology for cruelty, violence, and hate

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