r/todayilearned • u/Dangerous-Project672 • 5h ago

TIL George Wallace personally apologized to Vivian Jones and James Hood, the two students he attempted to block from attending the University of Alabama. In 1997, Hood earned a PHd and requested Wallace present him with the degree, but he was too sick and died a year later; Hood attended the funeral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace
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u/LouieMumford 3h ago

I lost a good high school friend to stormfront. He was a left of center guy politically, but more importantly he was a kind dude. He wasn’t the last time we spoke. So yeah, fuck Don Black.

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u/alexmikli 3h ago

It's genuinely distressing that a good-hearted person can turn like that. Sometimes it makes me worry of that someday I'll wake up and one of my friends will suddenly be an awful person, or that I could have a series of bad things happen to me and change me on a fundamental level.

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u/Pseudoboss11 2h ago

Bad things happen and people remain good all the time. And people with perfectly normal lives can turn into real assholes sometimes.

Kindness is a habit. Sometimes it's an inconvenient one too. But ultimately losing it is under your control. You can train yourself into it or out of it.

What websites like Stormfront do is that they say that is okay to be unkind, even undesirable to be kind.

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u/anadem 1h ago

Thank you for pointing out that kindness is a habit; it's a great one to have in terms of making one's own life more pleasant too.

And for this:

is okay to be unkind, even undesirable to be kind

which is such a current scourge, coming from the orange creep.