tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32294008.post3584039121966257274..comments2023-04-18T09:58:42.054-04:00Comments on J to the Power of 7: D.C. Stephenson: An Old Case of MolestationMatt Janovichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02700158612127533221noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32294008.post-72965862101155006082010-01-10T02:53:42.167-05:002010-01-10T02:53:42.167-05:00Pangea, anyone? True blonds have thickest heads of...Pangea, anyone? True blonds have thickest heads of hair? Blue eyes? Brown eyes? And still no scientific support for alleles? I wager most of the night crawlers have lighter allele eyes but that could be horse crap.<br /><br />Come world melt-down, those white supremacists will be told who is boss.<br /><br />The end to that argument.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14019954006842305367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32294008.post-3261617460821923282008-12-04T14:49:00.000-05:002008-12-04T14:49:00.000-05:00Yeah, they give Jesus a bad name, don't they?What'...Yeah, they give Jesus a bad name, don't they?<BR/><BR/>What's interesting about Indiana is that it's always been torn on race. We had a lot of the major players in the Underground Railroad here, like Levi Coffin. My own father found tunnels around here at construction sites that were part of it, it was a pretty big network.<BR/><BR/>What can you say? Things are actually changing here, contrary to what dolts like Tom Boots think. We just elected a Black President of the United States a little over 80 years after Stephenson's dramatic fall. When the WWII generation is gone, you'll see even more good change in this area.<BR/><BR/>As much as I miss my grandparents, most of the whites of their generation were bigoted and wrong. <BR/><BR/>Racism has been used to divide poor whites and blacks for generations in this country, but it doesn't work so well for the aims of social control anymore. Sure, it's still very much around and there will be more confrontations, but it's losing its sting.<BR/><BR/>Agreed, Stephenson was just taking the tenets of white supremacy to their logical conclusion, meaning run amok white patriarchy, namely rape and terror. That's what the KKK have always been: the most wretched creatures in America, truly vile people.Matt Janovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02700158612127533221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32294008.post-52899365205799171702008-02-02T17:39:00.000-05:002008-02-02T17:39:00.000-05:00PS: And I see you hail from Mishawaka--one of the ...PS: And I see you hail from Mishawaka--one of the disputed Klaverns in the United States. Stick to sales and living the lie of being a racist Republican. One would think you would admire Wilson and Sanger, I don't. Go sell shoes little man...Matt Janovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02700158612127533221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32294008.post-3201351546098015242008-02-02T17:15:00.000-05:002008-02-02T17:15:00.000-05:00I've heard of the book, but already know the conte...I've heard of the book, but already know the context. So many books, so little time. Write me a book report with a solid thesis. What you're pointing-out is what is sometimes known as "misguided populism,' which is exactly what the Klan was and is today. You misrepresent Stephenson who was no Eugene Debs or Big Bill Heywood--real Socialists.<BR/><BR/>Stephenson was merely another demagogue--as was Sanger and President Wilson. America was a decidedly white supremacist nation during the period of these people's time in the spotlight (roughly 1900 through the late-1920s), and they shared the assumptions of white skin privilege and entitlement.<BR/><BR/>The Klan wasn't 'Socialist,' though it was communitarian and nativist, which was a popular opinion in white protestant main street USA. They wouldn't have extended any substantial rights to anyone who wasn't white and protestant. There were hundreds-of-thousands of immigrants flooding into the country from Europe at that time, and people were losing their farms and jobs at that time in a rapidly modernizing economy (sound familiar?).<BR/><BR/>The Klan and plains Populism was rural, left-leaning, and it was also very racist (anti-Semitic especially). It was 'collective,' we still have farm collectives today as part of their legacy, but that's not the same as the industrial unionism and the states recognition of the bargaining rights of workers (including a social safety net from progressive taxation that would come later with the New Deal)that people like the urban progressives, the AFL, and unions like the IWW represented.<BR/><BR/>You kind of miss the whole point: America was moving from being an agricultural nation to a primarily industrialized one. Racism runs deep in our culture and was even more in-your-face then, it was everywhere. Sanger was a believer in scientific racism, as were many so-called "progressives." Many of us on the Left don't care for her, nor President Wilson who quashed the rights of many Americans to demonstrate against our involvement in WWI. <BR/><BR/>Wilson also allowed for the abuse of the Alien and Sedition acts during the war to smash legitimate labor organizing, culminating in the Red Scare at the end of WWI, the infamous 'Palmer Raids.' Go read about that. But if you think Stephenson was anything but a scoundrel, you're kidding yourself anyway and won't listen to reason regardless of the evidence presented. <BR/><BR/>You carry a lot of faulty assumptions about so-called "liberal," "leftists," "progressives," etc., but I doubt you have the real context to assume much of anything. Stephenson wasn't progressive in any real substantial regard, the issue is simply that racism was everywhere then. Bring yourself up-to-date.Matt Janovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02700158612127533221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32294008.post-9421311357285727792008-02-02T16:28:00.000-05:002008-02-02T16:28:00.000-05:00You need to read Jonah Goldberg's book, Liberal Fa...You need to read Jonah Goldberg's book, Liberal Fascism, so you can bring yourself up to date on the historical roots of racism as it relates to "progressivism" and "convervatism." Simply put, your demon in this piece, D.C. Stephenson, was a Socialist/Progressive in the same sense that many politicians of the era were "progressive" (e.g., Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger, etc.). Read the book before you dismiss it like all of the other "open-minded" folks on your side of the spectrum.Tom Bootshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00626622729729247934noreply@blogger.com