Why is the So Left Insane? That Anti-July Fourth WaPo Piece Exposes What They’re Being Taught in Colleges

[dilbert firestorm]

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattve...piece-n2571884

The first is the central paradox in U.S. history: The nation’s democracy was founded as a slave society.
The second is that after cutting political ties with Great Britain, Americans doubled down on the British Empire’s project of colonial domination. The American Revolution inspired freedom movements in other parts the world. But it also contributed to the worldwide spread of white supremacy.

In the century after independence, the United States went from being a province of Britain’s empire to building its own empire “from sea to shining sea” and then overseas in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam.

When President Thomas Jefferson set the country on a path of westward expansion, he imagined an “empire of liberty” that would spread freedom across the continent and protect the nation from the “dangerous extension” of British power. But the growth of slavery and the “removal” of native peoples on the mainland were achieved by force, not consent.

Across the Atlantic, Britain responded to the loss of the 13 colonies by developing a “second,” much larger empire in Asia, Australia and Africa. Both the American and the British Empires post-1776 were structured by racial hierarchy, violence and a systemic devaluation of black and indigenous lives.

Consider, for example, the case of India. In the decades after U.S. independence, the British East India Co. conquered most of the subcontinent. British colonizers embedded racism in the law, political economy, geography and culture of British India from the late 18th century.

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Britain’s settler colonies in Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Africa caused the violent dispossession of indigenous peoples and frequently justified the idea of black extermination. In 1825, for instance, a white settler in Australia publicly proposed: “The best thing that could be done would be to shoot all the Blacks … the women and children should especially be shot as the most certain method of getting rid of the race.” Despite self-aggrandizing claims to the contrary, Britain’s abolition of slavery in 1833 did not stop racism. In fact, colonial expansion intensified colonial racism.

Genocidal violence was a foundational pillar of the British Empire, not an accidental or unintentional outcome. As a consequence of colonial policies, as many as 30 million Indians died of starvation during three major famines that ravaged the subcontinent in the last quarter of the 19th century.

After America declared independence from Britain, both countries maintained powerful traditions of racism and violence that were distinct and interconnected.

[dilbert firestorm]

that alternate history is fucked up. might be good for a syfy fiction novel, but not for a history lesson.


no wonder the kids are so fucked up in the woke heads of theirs.

[nevergaveitathought]

its not so much just about America as it is white people

(although it is freedom and liberty and the constitution too )

white people bad

its in the dna of white people,,,

does any of this sound like Nazi Germany anti jew stuff to you?

all we need are the scurrying rats to complete the picture

[oeb11]

Wait for Tlaib and Omar and AOC to build their concentration camps - and then their ovens to cover the mass murder of anyone not radical progressive. and all Jewish people

[rexdutchman]

Don't forget the WP also wants some books removed form history , gee didn't Hitler burn books

[friendly fred]

Originally Posted by oeb11

Wait for Tlaib and Omar and AOC to build their concentration camps - and then their ovens to cover the mass murder of anyone not radical progressive. and all Jewish people

They would if they could.

I hope we stop them.

[matchingmole]

The North left is fine...only the So.

[oeb11]

Thank U - mm
Please clarify your point above. For those of us who had a rigorous non-teacher's Union education.

and do not speak 'woke' nonsense.

[eccielover]

Originally Posted by matchingmole

The North left is fine

Washington and Oregon?

They seem to be experiencing their own problems.

[oeb11]

not to mention the shit filled streets of the Socialist state of kalifornia!