Senator Tom Cotton Slammed for 'Necessary Evil' Slavery Comments
Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas is facing fierce backlash after he said slavery was a 'necessary [...]
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.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) July 26, 2020
prevnextWe 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
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) July 26, 2020
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
— Zac Petkanas (@Zac_Petkanas) July 27, 2020
prevnextTom Cotton said slavery was a "necessary evil." Congratulations, Republicans. This is what you have become.
— Wajahat "Wears a Mask Because of a Pandemic" Ali (@WajahatAli) July 26, 2020
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
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 27, 2020
prevnextTom 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
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) July 26, 2020
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.
— 🌎🌊 Death Row Tull 🌊🌏🆘 (@dukewindsor388) July 27, 2020
prevnextif 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
— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) July 27, 2020
Tom. Cotton. Is. A. Racist.
— I Smoked A Person Woman Man Camera And TV (@DKnight10000) July 27, 2020
prevnextRepublican 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.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) July 27, 2020
In my mind Tom Cotton probably thinks of slavery as a necessary evil.
So it turns out I was wrong. About the probably part.
— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) July 27, 2020
prevnextTom 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.
— Michael W. Twitty (@KosherSoul) July 27, 2020
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".
— Charlotte Clymer 🏳️🌈 (@cmclymer) July 26, 2020
prevThere 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.
— 🇺🇸 Jon Munitz 🇺 (@JonMunitz) July 27, 2020
2) His opponent is Tom Cotton
3) He can beat Tom Cotton.