tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post1605385023558841504..comments2024-03-29T05:22:26.118-04:00Comments on Daffey Thoughts: How the propaganda ministry does itDavid Griffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-13654757497389251542021-01-20T12:02:46.407-05:002021-01-20T12:02:46.407-05:00That would be a ridiculous thing to say, but I'...That would be a ridiculous thing to say, but I'm not shocked that it's not called out by the press. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-29855377747696055712021-01-20T08:33:28.838-05:002021-01-20T08:33:28.838-05:00And yet nobody's calling out Lin Manuel Mirand...And yet nobody's calling out Lin Manuel Miranda for claiming that Alexander Hamilton was an Immigrant, dispite Hamilton having been born on a British-controled island, this makeing his move to the British north American mainland not an example of immigration, but simply moving from one part of the British empire to another. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10122492268910202737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-62153717386176417482020-08-28T10:21:33.542-04:002020-08-28T10:21:33.542-04:00Yep. My sons say their peers have a name for the ...Yep. My sons say their peers have a name for the adults today I translate (for polite conversation) "Generation Loser". They've view is that while obviously America is a 400 year racist, genocidal state and obviously WWII was a giant conspiracy by the US military industrial machine and racist IMperialists, at least the schmucks on the beaches thought they were doing something good. Since then it's been downhill. Oh, they'll take what they get from the mess, but they see it as a bunch of adults doing nothing, being nothing, and leaving nothing for them to take care of. People like Deacon Greydanus who think they'll curry favor by trashing and hashing those who came before these youngster are, from what my sons report, sadly mistaken. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-13469881748835150332020-08-27T21:05:36.338-04:002020-08-27T21:05:36.338-04:00Now, gentlemen, I don't want to read at any gr...Now, gentlemen, I don't want to read at any greater length, but this is the true complexion of all I have ever said in regard to the institution of slavery and the black race. This is the whole of it, and anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro, is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. [Laughter.] I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position. I have never said anything to the contrary, but I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [Loud cheers.] I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects-certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. [Great applause.]<br /><br />August 21, 1858<br /><br />Lincoln was a politician living in a time of intense racial prejudice. He did an immense task in ending slavery. That contemporary pygmies attack this giant only shows their immense ignorance and spiritual poverty.<br />Catherine A. McClareyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06263364661500592648noreply@blogger.com