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u/limukala · 3 pointsr/TrueReddit

>The country wasn't founded on slavery.

Sure it was. Slavery was the very foundation of settlement patterns for half the country, and was embedded into the constitution. All of the biggest internal conflicts from 1776 on were directly or indirectly tied to slavery.

Slavery was one of, if not the primary driver of the call for revolution.

>>In 1772, the High Court in London brought about the conditions that would end slavery in England by freeing a black slave from Virginia named Somerset. This decision began a key facet of independence.

>>All of these considerations combined to make southern political lawyers anxious about their property in slaves that was threatened by the Somerset decision. Taxation might have taken some of their property; Somerset threatened to take it all.

From a review:

>>The book goes on to tell how major decisions made by the Americans-such as the agreement to break from British rule, the wording of the Declaration of Independence, and the formulation of the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution-were all done in a manner that protected the right of the South to maintain slavery.

>>For example: in early drafts of the Declaration of Independence, the language that said "All men are born equally free and independent" was changed by Thomas Jefferson to "All men were created equal" to prevent the implication that slaves should be free.

Now,


>It wasn't founded on fear.

Sure it was. Samuel Adams and other prominent revolutionaries used outlandish conspiracy theories to gain support for revolution.

It's one thing to have respect for the founding fathers, quite another to be willfully blind to any faults.

u/11787 · 1 pointr/todayilearned

It was exactly like the Revolutionary War; a slave holding aristocracy fought to maintain their "property". Did you know that slavery was outlawed in the British Isles in 1772 and the slave holders in the Colonies could see the writing on the wall.

https://www.amazon.com/Slave-Nation-Colonies-American-Revolution/dp/1402206976/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1478580170&sr=1-1&keywords=slave+nation

u/MarquisDePaid · 1 pointr/DebateAltRight

We need European centered diaspora equivalents to this

Black American oppression

Alongside

And this Native American suffering history

The "redneck revolt" movement is a good symbol of a cucked cancerous takeover over European history with "we wuz oppressed but we are still the oppressors" and they need to be overtaken.

It's the golden rule. If me harming others is wrong, others harming me is wrong. There are two sides to every story.

There are other countries like Japan where the native and resident ethnic conflicts are resolved and moved on from.

Thankfully for Japanese the Jewish supremacists have virtually no influence there to rewrite and destroy their history despite their obvious desire to do so.

[Japan has like virtually no Jews.](Jews.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Japan) Yet they managed to attack the states homogenity via birthrates and promoting race mixing as a 22 year old Jewish woman wrote the Japanese gender equality part of their constitution during post ww2 reconstruction.

These "Antiracist" Jews consider ethnic Japense to be "illegitimate" despite my protests;

>The "original populations" of the Japanese islands are the Ainu of the north and the okinawans of the south, that are very different from the average modern japanese person in the same way a maori is different from a white new zealander. The "average japanese" is a descendant of mongoloid groups that migrated to the isles during the last Ice Age.

Then retard lets it out;

>Nation-states are a temporary contrivance that, like monarchy/aristocracy, should be thrown into history's trash the instant we can apply something better.

Even fcking Hitler predicted something of Jewish supremacist genocidal hatred towards Japan;

>...he strives to break the Japanese national State by the power of existing similar structures, to finish off the dangerous opponent before the last State power is transformed in his hands into a despotism over defenseless beings.

>He dreads a Japanese national State in his millennial Jew empire, and therefore wishes its destruction in advance of the founding of his own dictatorship.

>Therefore, he is now inciting the nations against Japan, as against Germany, and it can happen that, while British statecraft still tries to build on the alliance with Japan, the British-Jewish press already demands struggle against the ally and prepares the destructive war under the proclama-
tion of democracy and the battle cry: Down with Japanese militarism, and imperialism.


I for one 100% cheer a strong Asia/whatever nation. Any and all "dangerous opponents" to genocidal international Jewish supremacists are f
cking heroes

u/jeufie · -2 pointsr/television