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New Series: It just bugs me:
How the Hell did Woodrow Wilson become an icon of equal rights for everyone?
I mean, this is a guy that passed Sedition Acts (a time-honored American tradition), engaged in outrageous civil rights violations (interning one's political opponents like Eugene Victor Debs is a big no-no in any society that wants to pretend to be civilized), segregated a previously unsegregated environment (the Federal Government), triggered a Ku Klux Klan revival (his little "like watching history written in lightning" comment), targeted political minorities (his raids and launching the first Red Scare), targeting ethnic groups that were a bit slow in assimilating (the Germans and ensuring a law was passed that completely forbade teaching in any language other than English. Um....last I checked, Dobbs's ilk didn't quite get that far in the last eight years), engaged in some of the most outrageous colonial wars of an outrageous era (nearly starting a war with Mexico because he was pissed the wrong top banana came out of the Revolution, innumerous invasions of Latin America), and deliberately politicized the one treaty which if enforced would have ensured that Germany would at least have somewhat gotten on its feet slower, participated in two invasions of Russia during a civil war there, and lied us into one of the world wars.
And this guy's a hero? O.o
Maybe I should go into politics after all...heh, heh, heh. If he can get a good reputation....who wouldn't be able to?
I mean, this is a guy that passed Sedition Acts (a time-honored American tradition), engaged in outrageous civil rights violations (interning one's political opponents like Eugene Victor Debs is a big no-no in any society that wants to pretend to be civilized), segregated a previously unsegregated environment (the Federal Government), triggered a Ku Klux Klan revival (his little "like watching history written in lightning" comment), targeted political minorities (his raids and launching the first Red Scare), targeting ethnic groups that were a bit slow in assimilating (the Germans and ensuring a law was passed that completely forbade teaching in any language other than English. Um....last I checked, Dobbs's ilk didn't quite get that far in the last eight years), engaged in some of the most outrageous colonial wars of an outrageous era (nearly starting a war with Mexico because he was pissed the wrong top banana came out of the Revolution, innumerous invasions of Latin America), and deliberately politicized the one treaty which if enforced would have ensured that Germany would at least have somewhat gotten on its feet slower, participated in two invasions of Russia during a civil war there, and lied us into one of the world wars.
And this guy's a hero? O.o
Maybe I should go into politics after all...heh, heh, heh. If he can get a good reputation....who wouldn't be able to?