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Showing posts with label american history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label american history. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
slavery "history," right-wing style
ok, so michael "just go back to reviewing movies already you big blow-hole" medved decided to write a column trying to address what he believes are liberal falsehoods (read: the truth) regarding slavery. as if that wasn't scary enough in the abstract, he manages to outdo even his own inner racial doucebaggery with these assertions:
SLAVERY EXISTED ONLY BRIEFLY, AND IN LIMITED LOCALES, IN THE HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC – INVOLVING ONLY A TINY PERCENTAGE OF THE ANCESTORS OF TODAY’S AMERICANS.
WHILE AMERICA DESERVES NO UNIQUE BLAME FOR THE EXISTENCE OF SLAVERY, THE UNITED STATES MERITS SPECIAL CREDIT FOR ITS RAPID ABOLITION
and extra doucebaggery points for this one:
THERE IS NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT TODAY’S AFRICAN-AMERICANS WOULD BE BETTER OFF IF THEIR ANCESTORS HAD REMAINED BEHIND IN AFRICA
briefly? rapid abolition? better off not enslaved? wow, this is a true lasagna of right-wing awful. layers and layers...i can't wait to see the doucebaggery of his inevitable sequel: how smallpox actually helped native americans and how much better off they were thanks to the Dawes Act.
SLAVERY EXISTED ONLY BRIEFLY, AND IN LIMITED LOCALES, IN THE HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC – INVOLVING ONLY A TINY PERCENTAGE OF THE ANCESTORS OF TODAY’S AMERICANS.
WHILE AMERICA DESERVES NO UNIQUE BLAME FOR THE EXISTENCE OF SLAVERY, THE UNITED STATES MERITS SPECIAL CREDIT FOR ITS RAPID ABOLITION
and extra doucebaggery points for this one:
THERE IS NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT TODAY’S AFRICAN-AMERICANS WOULD BE BETTER OFF IF THEIR ANCESTORS HAD REMAINED BEHIND IN AFRICA
briefly? rapid abolition? better off not enslaved? wow, this is a true lasagna of right-wing awful. layers and layers...i can't wait to see the doucebaggery of his inevitable sequel: how smallpox actually helped native americans and how much better off they were thanks to the Dawes Act.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
how does one rust on their laurels?
actual phrases from my american history textbook
BY MARISSA SKUDLAREK
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Seemingly the farmer had only to tickle the soil with a hoe and it would laugh with a harvest.
England ruled the waves and waived the rules.
Some of the ranking generals were semisenile heirlooms from the Revolutionary War, rusting on their laurels.
What other power would have spurned the imperial domain of Texas? The bride was so near, so rich, so fair, so willing… Nine long years were surely a decent wait between the beginning of the courtship and the consummation of the marriage.
Lincoln nearly impaled his opponent on the horns of a dilemma.
Chester A. Arthur was a wealthy, handsome widower who enjoyed a richly stocked wine cellar and a wardrobe that included eighty pairs of trousers.
The steer was king in a Cattle Kingdom richly carpeted with grass. But what the Lord can giveth, the Lord also can taketh away. Cowboys slowly gave way to plowboys.
The free and unlimited coinage of wordage.
Wall Street became a wailing wall as gloom and doom replaced boom.
Walker Percy and Eudora Welty grasped the falling torch from the failing Faulkner.
BY MARISSA SKUDLAREK
- - - -
Seemingly the farmer had only to tickle the soil with a hoe and it would laugh with a harvest.
England ruled the waves and waived the rules.
Some of the ranking generals were semisenile heirlooms from the Revolutionary War, rusting on their laurels.
What other power would have spurned the imperial domain of Texas? The bride was so near, so rich, so fair, so willing… Nine long years were surely a decent wait between the beginning of the courtship and the consummation of the marriage.
Lincoln nearly impaled his opponent on the horns of a dilemma.
Chester A. Arthur was a wealthy, handsome widower who enjoyed a richly stocked wine cellar and a wardrobe that included eighty pairs of trousers.
The steer was king in a Cattle Kingdom richly carpeted with grass. But what the Lord can giveth, the Lord also can taketh away. Cowboys slowly gave way to plowboys.
The free and unlimited coinage of wordage.
Wall Street became a wailing wall as gloom and doom replaced boom.
Walker Percy and Eudora Welty grasped the falling torch from the failing Faulkner.
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