American "Revolution"? Fought for by aristocrats and lead to little major political change. Boston "Massacre"? Five people dead, less than shootings today. British "tyranny" upon elite American colonists? A tax exclusively on tea, not literal genocide like they did to India and others
That book absolutely blew my mind, and I can now never look at the foundation of America in the same way. Cursed country from the start, literally founded on avoiding the abolition of slavery. :amerikkka:
Thanks for the new podcast and new reason to hate america :af-heart: :amerikkka:
Also there was a ruling in England that set a precedent that slavery didn’t have a legal basis a few years before it all popped off - slaveowners knew which direction the wind was blowing there.
Somerset v Stewart is probably what you're talking about.
Welcome, I feel ya. It's overlooked so often that it's damn near seared into my head from looking it up all the time. 😅
Do you think the world would be better or worse off today if the colonies hadn't revolted in 1776?
America at least would be better. The British were restraining the worst impulses of the American settlers, even limiting westward expansion to the benefit of native tribes. Abolitionism was stronger there too.
They also coveted fertile indigenous lands like the Mississippi Delta. The only thing standing between them turning the plantation system into a full blown empire was British policy forbidding settlement beyond the Appalachians. The Revolution fixed that problem.
Dunmore's Proclamation was what brought guys like Washington, Madison, Jefferson, and Patrick Henry into the American Revolution. The Brits were openly challenging their position as slave-owners.
I feel I should point out that the Boston Massacre was started in part because a British merchant shot and killed an 11-year-old boy less than a month earlier.
so when the crowns guard were called because a merchant was being "harassed" by townspeople, among them a freed black slave, in front of a Customs House which resulted in the shooting and the death of 5, several more injured, the town and people were rightly in a furry.Long story short Class consciousness was strong back then and the death of those five common people has been immortalized in history.
The fast that is was propagandized by the wealthy to fuel their revolution is another matter entirely. please don't mock calling it a massacre just because the numbers were low.
Zinn's People's History of the US was a major stepping stone towards ripping off the lib band aid for me. Realizing how much of what I believed was just pure mythology and propaganda was mind blowing.
americans are really good at saying a thing many times until it has no meaning at all
Liberalism’s greatest tool is how it rewrites the meaning of words and concepts to its own purposes. “Revolution”, “freedom”, it’s whatever we say it is, simultaneously nebulous and stupidly reductive and simple. Got a problem with it? Well you’re just an evil baby eating nazi, and you should be ashamed of yourself.
