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Letter: Big lies have consequences

By Chris Langlois, Vancouver
Published: May 15, 2021, 6:00am

Let’s look at Big Lies. Starting in 1919, the German military leaders started spreading the Big Lie that Jews and Communists caused Germany’s defeat in World War I. Fifteen years later, the democratic Weimar Republic dead, Hitler used that Big Lie as partial justification for his extermination of 6 million Jews. Lies have consequences.

Today the new Big Lie is that Trump won the election. To believe that, one must believe in a massive conspiracy involving Republican and Democratic judges, state representatives, and voting machines rigged nationwide.

America’s biggest Big Lie has always been that Black people are not human beings. Trump’s Big Lie builds upon the existing lie about Black people. In fact, if they had not voted in large numbers, he would have won. True. For the last 150-plus years their votes have been suppressed, first by Jim Crow and now by new restrictive laws passed by conservative Republican states. If Black people are not human beings, they cannot be real citizens; so why not suppress their voting rights?

What will our democracy look like in 15 years if these two Big Lies are still being told?

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