I think finding out that Hitler was inspired by how throughly Andrew Jackson committed genocide against the Natives would shatter or at least destabilize the ethos of the Founding Fathers & America for a lot of people
the Citizenship Law and the Blood Law of the United States.
Big chunks of the American legal system and history inspired the nazi’s in their organisation of the Holocaust.
Welp
Just to bring this into a modern context:
“After Trump’s election, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Trump adviser, compared Trump favorably with Jackson. “This is like Andrew Jackson’s victory,” Giuliani said. “This is the people beating the establishment. And that’s how he (Donald Trump) posited right from the beginning”
The Daily Stormer, which takes its name from the Nazi propaganda sheet Der Stürmer, is
the leading extremist web forum in the country. It also promoted the
deadly “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville,
Virginia, last August.
‘Let’s Hit Em Up’
The terror campaign began in December 2016 after Anglin accused Gersh
of attempting to extort money from the mother of white nationalist
leader Richard Spencer. Gersh had offered to help the woman sell a
building in Whitefish after residents of the town planned a
demonstration there to protest Spencer’s activities. Anglin and Spencer
are both prominent leaders of the “alt-right” movement.
“Tell them you are sickened by their Jew agenda,” Anglin wrote under
the headline “Jews Targeting Richard Spencer’s Mother for Harassment and
Extortion – TAKE ACTION!” The post included Gersh’s contact
information. It also included photographs of Gersh, her husband and son.
One was altered to include a yellow Star of David with the label “Jude”
– an allusion to the emblem the Nazi regime required Jews to wear
during World War II.
Anglin launched his campaign with these words: “Let’s Hit Em Up. Are
y’all ready for an old fashioned Troll Storm? Because AYO – it’s that
time, fam.”
By far the best part of Assassin’s Creed III is the fact that you can chase down the founding fathers and just harangue them, just bully those slaveowning nerds and shove them around a bit.
Here we see the guy on the $1 bill kneeling and crying because a stronger boy pushed him
George Washington didn’t own slaves. He inherited slaves but set them free because he saw slavery as inhuman.
George Washington inherited some of his slaves from Martha’s first marriage, but owned over 100 of his own by the end of his life. He did not give any indication during his life that he saw slavery as inhuman and, in fact, was pretty enthusiastic about the practice of holding humans prisoner and putting them to work in a forced labor camp.
When he needed new slaves, he known to ask for “Six or more n*****s… males… well-grown lads… healthy, and none of them addicted to running away.” (Letter from George Washington to John Francis Mercer, November 6 1786)
There was also his practice of dealing with “misbehaving” or “unruly” slaves was to ship them off to an even more brutal plantation in the Caribbean in exchange for various luxury foods and drinks. Like in 1766, when he sent an “unruly” slave named Tom to the West Indies in exchange for barrels of molasses and rum, or then again in 1791 when he shipped of an unnamed “misbehaving fellow” in exchange for “one pipe and quarter cask of wine.”
Now, you’re partially right on one thing. He did set his slaves free. In his will. You know, when he was dead and therefore done exploiting them. Couldn’t be bothered to do it while he was alive and stood to lose something from, you know, releasing the inmates of his forced labor camp, but he did technically allow SOME OF them to go free when he was no longer alive to enjoy the fruits of their labor.
You might be thinking of Ben Franklin, who actually did set his slaves free and take up the cause of abolition because he thought the institution of slavery was abhorrent, but this was also something that made him incredibly unpopular, especially with enthusiastic slaveowners like Washington and Jefferson.
Oh, and in reference to your tags. Temple University, class of 2014. Bachelor’s in History. During my years there, I specialized in American history and specifically built my curriculum to cover race relations in detail. The subject area of my capstone class was the American Revolution. If you’re going to accuse someone of skimping on research and not paying attention in history class, maybe don’t pick someone who just came off of five years of history class culminating in a final intensive course on this exact subject when you couldn’t even be bothered to google it.
they literally have the slave quarters on display at Mt Vernon…
George Washington didn’t own slaves he just ~inherited~ them!!
???? What?
Also, at least as relevant to that game featuring Connor/Ratohnhake:ton? George Washington’s War on Native America. In which he personally tried to wipe out the Iroquois League.
Though, those are not totally separate issues. As quoted from another source through the link (bolding added):
He insisted in killing as many Indians as possible without taking into account age or sex. The survivors were to be given as agricultural slaves to the colonists who deserved them “Destroying not only the men but the settlements and the plantations is very important. All sown fields must be destroyed and new plantations and harvests must be prevented. What lead can not do will be done by hunger and winter.”
George’s own words. So obviously opposed to the idea of slavery… 😩
Okay, so, today is April 24th and I kinda feel like I’m obligated to interrupt your stream of memes for a second of your attention.
April 24th marks the beginning of what is now known as the Armenian Genocide. The genocide, taking place during WWI in 1915 was the systematic murder of 1.5 million Armenians by the newly established Young Turk government. When I read about this, I found the word choice used to describe it unnerving – a “cleanse” of the Armenian people to “Turkify” the Ottoman Empire. A solution to the “Armenian question”. The terms used kinda scared me, because it draws an eerily similar comparison to the Holocaust. On this day, 102 years ago, the Turkish government arrested and executed a few hundred Armenian intellectuals. Soon, the Turkish country side was littered with the corpses of the Armenians.
And not a lot of people even know.
1.5 million people were killed in an attempt to erase Armenians from history.
To this day, the Turkish government refuses to admit this crime.
what’s….infuriating/validating is that every time someone tries to go “you need to care MORE about OTHER genocides!!!!” and then lists the ones they mean, those are almost always studied, written about, and monitored by Jewish people.
I know that the Armenian genocide was written about by Jewish people. I know someone who works on genocide and human rights monitoring – she’s Jewish. I know that when people tell me to go read King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa to learn more about the genocide in the congo – that that author is Jewish.
I know that the current president of Genocide Watch is an Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University. Her dissertation was about Germany and Africa. Read her bio – I have no idea if she’s Jewish but I know she teaches about the Holocaust and that has yet to prevent her active work for Genocide Watch. I also know that the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum runs the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide and the Ferencz International Justice Initiative.
I know that the term genocide was coined by a Jewish man.
so like, trust me when I say, Jewish people are paying attention to genocides other than their own. All the time! You do not have to warn people off of studying the holocaust too much on Yom HaShoah, or imply it might be “eclipsing the importance of other genocides” or any of these other things, because not only is that not true when it comes to literally every Jewish person I know, but also I believe you are smarter than that, and can comprehend two things at once without having to directly compare them.
I think finding out that Hitler was inspired by how throughly Andrew Jackson committed genocide against the Natives would shatter or at least destabilize the ethos of the Founding Fathers & America for a lot of people
the Citizenship Law and the Blood Law of the United States.
Big chunks of the American legal system and history inspired the nazi’s in their organisation of the Holocaust.
Welp
At bare minimum, America was founded on two massive crimes against humanity: native genocide and slavery. To pretend that it’s some pristine shining beacon of freedom actually weakens us as a country, because we don’t deal with the demons of our past, which makes us vulnerable to continued injustice.
For people to cast realism as “hating America” is disgusting. We’re a flawed nation built on a good principle that we applied unevenly. Admitting that and trying to do better is strength, not weakness.
“The name Hitler does not offend a black South African because Hitler is not the worst thing a black South African can imagine. Every country thinks their history is the most important, and that’s especially true in the West. But if black South Africans could go back in time and kill one person, Cecil Rhodes would come up before Hitler. If people in the Congo could go back in time and kill one person, Belgium’s King Leopold would come way before Hitler. If Native Americans could go back in time and kill one person, it would probably be Christopher Columbus or Andrew Jackson. I often meet people in the West who insist that the Holocaust was the worst atrocity in human history, without question. Yes, it was horrific. But I often wonder, with African atrocities like in the Congo, how horrific were they? The thing Africans don’t have that Jewish people do have is documentation. The Nazis kept meticulous records, took pictures, made films. And that’s really what it comes down to. Holocaust victims count because Hitler counted them. Six million people killed. We can all look at that number and be rightly horrified. But when you read through the history of atrocities against Africans, there are no numbers, only guesses. It’s harder to be horrified by a guess. When Portugal and Belgium were plundering Angola and the Congo, they weren’t counting the black people they slaughtered. How many black people died harvesting rubber in the Congo? In the gold and diamond mines of the Transvaal? So in Europe and America, yes, Hitler is the Greatest Madman in History. In Africa he’s just another strongman from the history books.”
— Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (via christymtidwell)
Anyone who thinks this is anti-Semitic is wilfully misreading the text. The discussion is about how Euroamerican history is elevated and used to humanize the cost of white bodies over that of the Global South under Euroamerican colonialism.
No one is saying Holocaust deniers don’t exist. But almost everyone in the world learns about it, of who Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini were. The rest of us are just erased or shrugged off like our dead don’t matter. It’s not because Jewish people are privileged in Europe and America, it’s because Jewish people are PART of Euroamerican history and the Holocaust serves the narrative of British-American war heroism.
Anti-Semitism exists and is no less a problem than racism. But you can’t use that to silence PoC struggles or to police our words.
There are white folks who come to see our war monuments (1983 – 2009, hundreds of thousands dead) and scoff that the Holocaust was way worse. Let that sink in.
Jewish descendants have passing privilege, which is this awful in-between where they get to be “white” when people question why they’re being targeted to make it seem less racist, but get to be “not” when armed Nazis are circling their temples again.
The US’ Holocaust obsession isn’t about “these guys are paler than the other ones, cool!”
It is about reputation guarding against the fact that the US was the admitted inspiration for Hitler’s level of horrors.
We’d go back in time to kill Columbus because that might have stopped that specific wave.
No doubt another conqueror’s death farther back (or even at the same time as Columbus) would have disrupted his methods, too.
I agree with most of the above mentioned – I’m just cautious of any grounds that reminds me of the “Jewish folk are white” rhetoric that occasionally goes around.
‘A Living Burial’: Inside the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians
There have been many attempts by the U.S. mental health establishment to lock up, restrain, sedate or destroy the spirits of Native people, but none so notorious and depraved as what was done at the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians. Maybe that’s why stories of the people who suffered there are so hard to come by. Fortunately, a cadre of researchers are working to reconstruct what really happened in a federally-funded psychiatric gulag that was fully operational only 85 years ago. There’s no centralized archive to dig through, and whatever remnants remain of Hiawatha inmate lives are scattered like ashes across multiple states and numerous warehouses of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Fragments from the pitiful records of two inmates are gathered and rewoven here, allowing these imprisoned ancestors to finally speak their past to our present.
Today, January 27, 2017, marks 72 years since the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi occupied Poland. Today we remember the worst of humanity: genocide. Today we remember all the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. We remember the roughly 11 million people (1.1 at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp) who were slaughtered simply for who they were and those who were imprisoned, and sometimes killed, for what they believed.
The Nazi regime murdered an estimated 6 million Jewish people, 2 million Romani people, 250,000 mentally and physically disabled non-Jewish/non-Romani people, and 9,000 non-Jewish/non-Romani gay men all in the furtherance of white supremacy and “racial purity.”
Today we remember them all and continue to fight against fascism, totalitarianism, and white supremacy so that this never again happens.
Today, January 27, 2018, marks 73 years. Never again.
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