tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post1850215006600075996..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: The nature and destiny of the "unpleasantness between the states"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-57800331721823644102015-04-12T18:23:23.701-05:002015-04-12T18:23:23.701-05:00New England in the same period was hardly a beacon...New England in the same period was hardly a beacon of light, wage slavery and an increasingly entrenched yankee (English-Scots WASPs) establishment who hated and discriminated against people of other ethnicities and discriminated against them. I remember reading an essay that made the point that many of the New Englanders who had been enthusiastic about the abolition of slavery were entirely hostile or indifferent to the rights of workers in the mills of New England.<br /><br />Somewhere today, maybe in the Boston Globe, I read that in the Turkish denial of the Armenian Genocide that the present government talks about it in terms of "our responsibility" as if anyone involved is still alive and that was a century instead of a century and a half ago. I think your mentioning the Alamo movie is especially relevant because movies, TV shows, really awful books, and even some rather better books have fanned the resentments and arrogance that should have died in our great grandparents generation, well, great-great(great) grandparents for those who are younger. I think the renewal of vows, as it were, was a bad thing and did nothing to make things better. <br /><br />There was discrimination and oppression and murder all around the United States. As he was fighting the Civil War, Lincoln signed off on the mass hanging of Native Americans in Minnesota and after the war Sheridan waged a genocidal war on Native Americans, notably through trying to drive the bison into extinction. As I recall, the Texas legislature tried to make it illegal to poach bison on Indian land, only to have the hero of the Union Army argue against that because it wouldn't be in line with his plans of destroying Indians.<br /><br /><br />There's plenty to be ashamed about in history on all sides. <br /><br />The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-78773592510251420502015-04-12T17:31:46.047-05:002015-04-12T17:31:46.047-05:00In a way, Reconstruction presaged Versailles. Vic...In a way, Reconstruction presaged Versailles. Victors clumsy enough to shoot themselves in the foot.ntoddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01068160577299501895noreply@blogger.com