Momanohedhunter
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I bet this will surprise you, but I will concede that PC's description was a little off, but she is touching on an important point which Baruch highlights - it's a cultural difference more than anything else. I think PC was close, but chose terms that were not exact.What does her being Asian have to do with anything?
I realize she only parrots wingnuts, but she did post this little jem:
The reason our revolution was so different from the violent, homicidal chaos of the French version was the dominant American culture was Anglo-Saxon and Christian.
You are free to pretend all you want that it means something different.
The culture in England at the time we were developing was very different than that in continental Europe. The constant warring is a good example of that deep cultural difference.
Although we were fighting the English, we still adopted a lot of good ideas from them for our new country - common law, for example.
people with a full belly who feel they are being taxed wrongfully by an entity thousands of miles away will react a little differently than people who are staving to death while the aristos party on and the *princes* of the church tell them they'll get their reward in heaven. this whole anglo saxon, christian meme that PC trots out via ann petty and the heartbreakers is horseshit.
unless someone wants to argue that france wasn't a christian country at the time and the english monarchy felt that its power wasn't a divine right?
i'm sure PC is a nice person, but she's no rocket surgeon
Like it is now ? Obama having dinner parties and serving $400.00 bottles of champagne, and Michelle Antoinette saying " let them eat carrots".