True. But even so, I don't think being opposed to the New Deal is a sign of evil. People can have different perspectives about what makes the most sense economically. I think we do need a safety net. Others might disagree.
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Whoa. Nothing in my tweet came close to suggesting that "being opposed to the New Deal is a sign of evil." I merely pointed out that the friendship you found mysterious may have rested on political affinity, not on who was nice or "nasty."
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Replying to @dianabhenriques @ChristieSmythe
Lol Rose Wilder Lane wasn't just "opposed to the New Deal" she spent the 1930s as an anti-FDR conspiracy theorist and antiwar concern troll who publicly defended Hitler She flipped on all that in a big hurry once the war started but it's public record
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Later on in life she was quite bitter over Ayn Rand eclipsing her fame as a "founding mother of American libertarianism" and fumed that the publishing industry favored Rand over her because she was Jewish Really fascinatingly awful person
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I also find it interesting that because LIW wrote an interesting account of her life that was later romanticized on tv, that means the daughter couldn’t possibly be a terrible person with terrible friends. Says a lot about CS’s thought process & maybe some of her choices
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Replying to @Cassandra0Paige @arthur_affect and
Rose Wilder co-wrote most of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books. And, let's be honest...though it may not have been seen as such at the time, they're often pretty racist. Especially towards Native Americans.
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Replying to @rmmcgrath @Cassandra0Paige and
FWIW, although many people make this claim, the evidence is actually pretty weak that Rose's involvement went above "editor" to "coauthor" and a lot of it seems to come from the libertarian cult of personality around Rose
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Replying to @arthur_affect @rmmcgrath and
After reading PRAIRIE FIRES I agree with Fraser that Rose wasn't a good enough writer to be the coauthor of the Little House books, her mom was just better at it than she was (a fact that bothered her her whole life)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @rmmcgrath and
The strongest evidence for this POV, which has since been buried by Rose's fans as much as possible, is that *Rose wrote her own version of her family history to directly compete with the Little House series* Even while she was helping Laura get her books published
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Replying to @arthur_affect @rmmcgrath and
Rose's version of the story, Free Land, is obviously inferior in ways that are characteristic of her - much weaker and flatter characterization in favor of much more blatant political preaching And even though the book sold well at the time it's largely been forgotten
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But as Fraser points out, someone editing a book for publication and then turning right around and writing their own book that's a knockoff of the first one based on the same events would be seen as shockingly unethical at best under normal circumstances
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Replying to @arthur_affect @rmmcgrath and
It's the kind of thing that would totally burn your professional bridges with the author you were plagiarizing and backstabbing If that author weren't YOUR OWN FUCKING MOTHER
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I just finished reading Prairie Fires earlier this month and your tweets explaining the relentless hacky harmful awfulness of RWL are really nourishing my soul. Thank you.
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