Senator Tom Cotton Slammed for 'Necessary Evil' Slavery Comments

Tom Cotton saying that slavery was a "necessary evil" sounds a helluva lot like Nazis who justified their heinous crimes by saying "I was just following orders."

Evil is NEVER necessary.

We CANNOT let @TomCottonAR get away with calling slavery a "necessary evil."

We need to make this a massive issue today, tomorrow and beyond.

DO NOT let this racist off the hook. https://t.co/CrWlt2NPHw

No. This is a lie.

You did not say "The Founders viewed..."

You said: "As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil"

You endorsed -- not described -- their perceived view. https://t.co/bU0QFxC43T

Tom Cotton said slavery was a "necessary evil." Congratulations, Republicans. This is what you have become.

It's easy for Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) to call slavery a "necessary evil." The evil wasn't done to people like him. It was done to kidnapped African people for hundreds of years and was followed by 100+ years of lynching, theft, massacres and denial of basic human rights. https://t.co/oqcxbzSajG

Tom Cotton refuses to believe that the United States is "a systemically racist country to the core and irredeemable," his words—yet in an interview, he unmistakably agrees with those Founders who said slavery was "a necessary evil." How does that work? https://t.co/983NSIvXEz

Senator Tom Cotton should be forced to feel what slaves felt for one week and see if he still thinks it was a "necessary evil". We better clean house in November because we are literally swirling down the fucking drain.

if ilhan omar had gotten a mile within saying the holocaust was a "necessary evil" she would've been destroyed so quick you wouldn't have even noticed, but tom cotton actually saying slavery was a necessary evil will be forgotten within 48 hours. right-wing white privilege

Tom. Cotton. Is. A. Racist.

Republican Senator Tom Cotton calls slavery “the necessary evil upon which the union was built."

This, my friends, is today's GOP.

Make sure they lose control of the Senate on November 3.

In fact, make sure they lose control of everything.

They've lost the right to govern.

In my mind Tom Cotton probably thinks of slavery as a necessary evil.

So it turns out I was wrong. About the probably part.

Tom Cotton and his ilk think criticizing America for a history of anti-Blackness is America hatred while preserving & worshipping Confederate statues as a perverse form of patriotism is a problem we have to address. The narrative is more sinister than you think.

Tom Cotton issuing a public statement claiming slavery was a "necessary evil" is exactly why The 1619 Project is so important, why our votes are so important -- because white supremacy, in all its genocide and other horrors, is excused away as "necessary".

There are 3 reasons I endorsed @DanWhitCongress last month:

1) He's an awesome individual, comes from a working-class background, has a good grasp on technology, is an Independent, and has a platform as awesome as he is.
2) His opponent is Tom Cotton
3) He can beat Tom Cotton.