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24. It's not rumors. It's fact. Just because you refuse to accept it and insist on making

Reply to Callie1979 (Reply #19)

Sun Mar 15, 2026, 04:53 PM

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excuses for him doesn't change the fact that he was almost universally derided as a draft dodger at the time by those who served. John Wayne was then and forever a total piece of shit who was a terrible actor on top of it. That''s not just my opinion. That is Hollywood consensus.

Actual quote from John Wayne from a Playboy interview in 1971:

With a lot of blacks, there's quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent, and possibly rightfully so. But we can't all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks. I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. ... I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from the Indians. Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

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