Well if he is, it’s because of him and his lefty ilk
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Replying to @boethiolus @giantgio
If you were to tell him why there’s no longer an American people he’d call you a racist
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it's not really a matter of "no longer"; there never was an american people, if one means a group unified by semi-consistent beliefs, culture, conditions. appeals to it don't address an existent ppl so much as attempt to perform one into being. there's a lot of great work on this
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Replying to @realquickonce_ @giantgio
>there never was an American people What are WASPS? Also don’t take this as a tacit approval of Protestantism, only as statement of fact
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Replying to @nicholasjt98 @giantgio
wasps are one particular (regional/cultural/religious/economic) group that, despite their power and long-running attempt to speak on behalf of the nation, have always been contested precisely on that basis (by low church new england, dutch new york, french catholic midwest, etc)
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Replying to @realquickonce_ @giantgio
They’ve been contested on it but were the initial founders of the country, the colonies were majority English descent of Protestant faith
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Replying to @nicholasjt98 @giantgio
even then, no. no one, least of all wasps, would've included new england evangelicals among their number; the socio-economic systems of the plantation south were radically different; ny state's dutch background made it quite culturally different well into the 19thC
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Replying to @realquickonce_ @giantgio
Interdasting take. I feel like my initial point about demography and the lack of an American people stands
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Replying to @nicholasjt98 @giantgio
it's not a take so much as the inevitable conclusion anyone who spent some time reading materials from the late colonial, early republican, or antebellum periods would acknowledge; we're no more substantively lacking in an "american people" now than any other point in history
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Then it's true, America from its conception was a fragmented and fibrous whole crumbling at the seams, hence why any reactionary thinking is repellant, there is no collective tradition to harken back to.
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