The founding of America was a little rough but it’s amazing that they got as progressive as they did. Seeing as republicans nowadays support removing those fundamental rights that some old men laid out hundreds of years ago.
Edit: guys guys calm down. Yes, I know about the slavery stuff. I’m just talking about the amendment, stuff like the first amendment about free speech. States like Florida immediately come to mind because they’re trying to erase and change history.
Many of our founding fathers were progressive. But the ones with the most power were just rich assholes. If I remember correctly, George Washington stopped Philadelphia or the state of PA from trying to abolish slavery. Many also wanted to aboliah slavery in 1776, and… that didn’t end up taking place.
No, no, no. You just don’t understand the founding fathers right. They never wanted to give people fundamental rights, they wanted to make a proud patriotic America! /S.
(Why does my sarcasm feel less and less sarcastic these days?)
My old high school friends quoting Prager U propaganda at me was the straw that made me finally quit Facebook a few years ago.
It’s so sad that this shit can find so much reach.
It’s because young and/or dumb people think it’s a legitimate institution. They grab their audience with semi-moderate primers before easing into much more extreme dogma.
I was almost grabbed by them when I was early in high school before realizing it’s all bullshit because I grew up.
The US has been the Land of the Free* since it was founded. It is going to take a lot of work to break that as a single country. I don’t know if it’s honestly viable anymore. Sometimes I feel like we should just scrap the whole thing and try again,l.
*terms and conditions may apply based on race, gender, and wealth
as someone who sees both .world and hexbear users in this thread its kinda funny seeing how stark a difference the reaction to the meme is
Religious bigotry and racist thinking?
- shiveyarbles ( @shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ) 10•1 year ago
Classic racist acshually
Think about Lincoln’s Gettysburg address for a minute.
…conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal…
Which is a big fat lie. True only if you were a white male landowner.
If the union has not been founded on slavery then there wouldn’t even have been a civil war to win/lose.
The founding fathers as a group were quite happy with slavery, racism, and sexism.
That’s what the USA was founded on, that is the legacy it maintains today.
The less well educated a population is, the easier they are to control. They can only get shit jobs, can’t afford college or healthcare and thus become fodder for the type of jobs billionaires create i.e. Amazon warehouses where they will work you until you die, ready to be replaced by the next generation of uneducated people in poor health.
Christian nationalism is trying and very near to succeeding in controlling what you are taught, what you are allowed to do with your bodies and what your laws are. The first people they seduced are your military just in case you get any ideas.