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Historian of the 19th Century U.S. and Associate Prof. at Maryville College. Author of Rebels on the Border and Civil War along Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau

Maryville, TN
Joined June 2009

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 8 Jun 2020

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Eddie Zipperer

      1. This sort of thing gets to my quarrel with the term "white privilege," as if the protection of the laws is a bad thing we should dispense with, rather than a right we should expand & guarantee on an equal basis.https://twitter.com/EddieZipperer/status/1269951088964370432 …

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      Eddie ZippererVerified account @EddieZipperer
      CAMEROTA: "What if in the middle of the night my home is broken into. Who do I call?" BENDER: "Yes, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors. And I know — and myself, too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege." pic.twitter.com/WhubQ9yJIf
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 8 Jun 2020

      2. America was founded on what the Founding Fathers saw as the natural rights of all Englishmen - but with the twist of defining those rights as God-given & universal to all.

      1 reply 12 retweets 89 likes
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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 8 Jun 2020

      3. Nothing is more central to America than the natural rights of individuals. The long American debate has been about expanding those rights from universal in theory to universal in practice. Reframing them as privilege - a privilege it is unjust to enjoy - opposes all that.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 8 Jun 2020

      4. One of the corrosive things about slavery in the world of political ideas was how it increasingly made its defenders skeptical of claims of universal rights, precisely because they implied that those rights should not be white privileges. Example:

      1 reply 10 retweets 59 likes
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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 8 Jun 2020

      5. After the failed 1848 revolutions, Whigs & Northern Democrats honored Lajos Kossuth, the Hungarian republican leader. Lewis Cass authored a resolution denouncing Austrian & Russian repression. Sec. State Daniel Webster wrote a pro-Kossuth biography.

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 8 Jun 2020

      6. But Kossuth was received coolly in the South. Sen. Robert MT Hunter (D-VA, later a Confederate) complained that Cass was meddling in Austria's internal affairs. Hunter feared embracing even universal *white* republicanism due to its implications for slavery.

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    7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 8 Jun 2020

      7. Hunter & other Calhounist apologists had fallen far from the visions of even Founding-era slaveholders - rather than proclaim & principle & admit it then had exceptions in practice, they drifted towards letting the practice redefine & water down the principle.

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    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 8 Jun 2020

      8. It is literally un-American & anti-American to view the natural rights of all human beings as unjust privileges to be renounced. That way does not lie liberty or equality, but merely a Hobbesian test of strength. I want no part of it.

      9 replies 32 retweets 135 likes
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      Aaron Astor‏ @AstorAaron 8 Jun 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Stephens’ “Cornerstone Speech” consummated that move.

      8:36 AM - 8 Jun 2020 from Maryville, TN
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