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One of life’s mysteries for me is how come USA has so many nutters?
@Clutha @Radical_EgoCom If you think about who founded the US, Puritans and slaveholders, it's not shocking.
@quadrivial @Clutha @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social You left out the criminals (Georgia) and the poor (indebted servitude) and the slaves. Not everyone had a choice.
@rrb @Clutha @Radical_EgoCom I mentioned slaveholders as founders, so I assumed the presence of slaves. I didn't mention indentured servants and criminals, so you are correct there. I suppose I was thinking of a particular definition of "founder" as someone with the power to shape what became American society, but you're right in saying the 2 groups I ignored had influence on what America is today.
@quadrivial @Clutha @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social You can not have oppressors without victims. See, we both forgot native Americans.
@rrb @Clutha @Radical_EgoCom Also a failing on my part, so good call. My only defense (which isn't really one) is that I would be hard pressed to argue that native Americans "founded" what we now call America in any meaningful way. Alas.
@quadrivial @rrb @Clutha @Radical_EgoCom
They certainly played a role. See:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269264-the-dawn-of-everything
@rrb @quadrivial @Radical_EgoCom
Not me!
When I see the old pics of the mountains of dead buffalo slaughtered to deny their food source it sickens me & no doubt many others.