Except, you know, for the remaining 99% of colonial Americans, who came from multiple nations (i.e., Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, and France) primarily to exploit the vast natural resources for sale back in Europe.
Let's not forget that the American dream is built on the corpses of the many thousands of native Americans whose homelands were usurped by force, or the corpses of the thousands of slaves brought here against their will, or the corpses of the thousands of Rebel soldiers who fought for their rights to keep other men as slaves, or the corpses of the thousands of Mexican soldiers who fought to keep the Southwest out of the the greedy hands of frontiersmen.
Force is, and has been, the defining facet of American society since its inception. American is the dominant culture in the world today for other reasons (thanks Hollywood), but let's not pretend that the official, widespread use of force played anything less than a major role.
You're kind of all over the map spewing half-truths and full-hate there... but I have to point out the worst of your arguments.
You mentioned the thousands of Rebel soldiers who died fighting for slavery. Really, most were just fighting against being told what to do by the central government and didn't even own slaves. You conveniently didn't mention the thousands of WHITE Northern soldiers who died to end slavery and whose side prevailed, thus showing the core character of the nation. Why is it that folks like yourself generalize the American battle over slavery by mentioning only the losers rather than the winners who sacrificed so much for another race? It's kind of hard to have a meaningful discussion on interesting topics when your post is so intellectually dishonest.
Yes. Slavery had little to do with the civil war. You've totally rebutted the parent post. We're not heading straight into crazytown on this thread at all.
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Except, you know, for the remaining 99% of colonial Americans, who came from multiple nations (i.e., Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, and France) primarily to exploit the vast natural resources for sale back in Europe.
Let's not forget that the American dream is built on the corpses of the many thousands of native Americans whose homelands were usurped by force, or the corpses of the thousands of slaves brought here against their will, or the corpses of the thousands of Rebel soldiers who fought for their rights to keep other men as slaves, or the corpses of the thousands of Mexican soldiers who fought to keep the Southwest out of the the greedy hands of frontiersmen.
Force is, and has been, the defining facet of American society since its inception. American is the dominant culture in the world today for other reasons (thanks Hollywood), but let's not pretend that the official, widespread use of force played anything less than a major role.
You're kind of all over the map spewing half-truths and full-hate there... but I have to point out the worst of your arguments.
You mentioned the thousands of Rebel soldiers who died fighting for slavery. Really, most were just fighting against being told what to do by the central government and didn't even own slaves. You conveniently didn't mention the thousands of WHITE Northern soldiers who died to end slavery and whose side prevailed, thus showing the core character of the nation. Why is it that folks like yourself generalize the American battle over slavery by mentioning only the losers rather than the winners who sacrificed so much for another race? It's kind of hard to have a meaningful discussion on interesting topics when your post is so intellectually dishonest.
Yes. Slavery had little to do with the civil war. You've totally rebutted the parent post. We're not heading straight into crazytown on this thread at all.