The Great Replacement subscribers remind me of the Know Nothings, a third-party that gained strength in the decade before the Civil War. Like the Great Replacement theorists, the Know Nothings worried about demographic change, specifically the idea that the Catholic Church was conspiring to import millions of Irish and German Catholic vo…
The Great Replacement subscribers remind me of the Know Nothings, a third-party that gained strength in the decade before the Civil War. Like the Great Replacement theorists, the Know Nothings worried about demographic change, specifically the idea that the Catholic Church was conspiring to import millions of Irish and German Catholic voters to deprive the Protestants of their God-given civil rights. Sound familiar?
If you're wondering how successful they were electorally, they ran a former President, Millard Fillmore, in the 1856 election. The movement also attracted the most famous assassin in American history - John Wilkes Booth.
Lincoln himself commented on the movement in a letter to a close friend:
"I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we begin by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty-to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy."
The more things change, the more they stay the same. The Know Nothings had a brief burst of energy, drowned out by the Civil War, but the legacy of their ideas obviously continues to live on.
You and Lincoln were 100 percent right. If the Right wing in this country had brains they would offer free education and free birth control to minority (black/Hispanic women) women who are educated have fewer children than those without education. They won't because they like having cheap labor, but they don't want them to get any benefits.
As to great replacement, by my very informal reckoning, more than half of US cities, towns, states, rivers, lakes, mountains, roads, etc carry names that are Spanish or Native languages. Who's replacing who?
I do tours at at Maritime History center and people are surprised to learn that up until 1849 the states from Texas west and up-to Canada were part of Mexico.
I know some people don't understand history. It remained mostly Spanish except for the gold miners who came in 1849. Texas declared itself independent from Mexico 1835, but Mexico did relinquish ownership until 1845
Yeah, the Know-Nothings and the Luddites, basically people who are angry about change. And our society has been going through a ton of changes over the past sixty years.
I've been saying for years that the Republicans have essentially become neo-Luddites.
Know-Nothings: that was my first thought as well. Yup, most Rs want to bring back the late 19th century with robber barons, slave labor - and I don't mean just blacks/Hispanics - women are property of men, etc.
The Great Replacement subscribers remind me of the Know Nothings, a third-party that gained strength in the decade before the Civil War. Like the Great Replacement theorists, the Know Nothings worried about demographic change, specifically the idea that the Catholic Church was conspiring to import millions of Irish and German Catholic voters to deprive the Protestants of their God-given civil rights. Sound familiar?
If you're wondering how successful they were electorally, they ran a former President, Millard Fillmore, in the 1856 election. The movement also attracted the most famous assassin in American history - John Wilkes Booth.
Lincoln himself commented on the movement in a letter to a close friend:
"I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we begin by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty-to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy."
The more things change, the more they stay the same. The Know Nothings had a brief burst of energy, drowned out by the Civil War, but the legacy of their ideas obviously continues to live on.
You and Lincoln were 100 percent right. If the Right wing in this country had brains they would offer free education and free birth control to minority (black/Hispanic women) women who are educated have fewer children than those without education. They won't because they like having cheap labor, but they don't want them to get any benefits.
Great quote.
As to great replacement, by my very informal reckoning, more than half of US cities, towns, states, rivers, lakes, mountains, roads, etc carry names that are Spanish or Native languages. Who's replacing who?
I do tours at at Maritime History center and people are surprised to learn that up until 1849 the states from Texas west and up-to Canada were part of Mexico.
Some might classify that fact as CRT and look to silence you!!
But its true.
Which is why I called it a "fact". I was highlighting how the crazies who don't like that reality might want to change the narrative
I know some people don't understand history. It remained mostly Spanish except for the gold miners who came in 1849. Texas declared itself independent from Mexico 1835, but Mexico did relinquish ownership until 1845
Didn't you get the notice that American history only goes as far back as when the whites first settled here?
Part of the dark mentality of these folks is it's not their opposition to replacement per se as who's doing the replacing.
Yeah, the Know-Nothings and the Luddites, basically people who are angry about change. And our society has been going through a ton of changes over the past sixty years.
I've been saying for years that the Republicans have essentially become neo-Luddites.
Know-Nothings: that was my first thought as well. Yup, most Rs want to bring back the late 19th century with robber barons, slave labor - and I don't mean just blacks/Hispanics - women are property of men, etc.
Or bring back the 13th century if you're Alito.
"all rich privileged white men are created equal, and nobody else matters"; there, I fixed it for them....
Well, the Abolitionists are gone, apparently.