Why Andrew Jackson’s Legacy Is So Controversial.

[jwoodie]

The seventh president has a particularly harsh record when it comes to enslaved people and Native Americans.

Should Andrew Jackson be revered or reviled? The question of how to grapple with the seventh president’s tarnished reputation has persisted since Old Hickory’s lifetime.

Known as a strong-willed, argumentative and combative personality, Jackson, who served as president from 1829 to 1837, inspires conflicting reactions. Admirers cite him as a populist hero who challenged the political establishment and ushered in a key era of American exploration and westward expansion. Critics say it's wrong to valorize him since he owned enslaved people, treated them harshly and forced Native Americans to be removed from their ancestral lands, causing thousands of deaths. Once so revered that his face was chosen for the $20 bill, Jackson has more recently inspired a tussle between consecutive Treasury secretaries over whether to keep him there. And in 2018, news that Jackson’s grave was vandalized at The Hermitage, his plantation in Nashville, Tennessee, breathed new life into the debate. Here’s why so many have questioned his legacy:

Why Andrew Jackson's Legacy Is So Controversial | HISTORY

The seventh president has a particularly harsh record when it comes to enslaved people and Native Americans.

www.history.com

What is the point of beating up on dead Presidents? To perpetuate victimhood?

P.S. The Battle of New Orleans was fought after a peace treaty with GB had already been signed.

 

[Hellbilly]

Nope.

What did republicans do to prevent the evil democrats from imposing their will?

 

[Mindful]

What is the point of beating up on dead Presidents? To perpetuate victimhood?

P.S. The Battle of New Orleans was fought after a peace treaty with GB had already been signed.

Who’s beating up? Not me.

Merely a historically interested bystander.

 

[BS Filter]

What did republicans do to prevent the evil democrats from imposing their will?

They freed the slaves and passed 3 amendments to ensure ex slaves were American citizens. What did democrats do? They formed the KKK.

 

[Hellbilly]

They freed the slaves and passed 3 amendments to ensure ex slaves were American citizens. What did democrats do? They formed the KKK.

Republicans fought FOR slavery.

 

[BS Filter]

Republicans fought FOR slavery.

You're an idiot.

 

[Hellbilly]

You're an idiot.

Guess that makes you a MAGA IDIOT.
The fact that you believe the shit you spew is sad.

 

[BS Filter]

Guess that makes you a MAGA IDIOT.
The fact that you believe the shit you spew is sad.

I read history books. Try it sometime.

 

[Hellbilly]

I read history books. Try it sometime.

I did. Then I learned what the history books didn’t teach. Actual history. History books leave a lot of shit out. Important shit.

 

[marvin martian]

The evil that was done by him and others like him should be taught in every school.

You joined his party, asshole! If you were around back then, you would have been helping him find, imprison, and kill natives.

 

[Pellinore]

Republicans fought FOR slavery.

That's not true. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 expressly to combat slavery. Comprised of the remnants of the Whig party as well as elements of various short-lived or regional parties of the time, they were seeking to change the system to fix a social problem, and were therefore what we would call progressive today.

The Democratic Party was a coalition of Southern slaveholders and segregationists, and northern business and banking interests, united by their desire for less federal intervention. They were seeking to preserve the society as it was, and were therefore what we would today call conservatives.

But no, absolutely not. The Republicans of the 1850s and 60s were the flagbearers for the drive to contain or end slavery.

 

[BS Filter]

I did. Then I learned what the history books didn’t teach. Actual history. History books leave a lot of shit out. Important shit.

Who freed the slaves, Republicans or democrats?

 

[Votto]

The seventh president has a particularly harsh record when it comes to enslaved people and Native Americans.

Should Andrew Jackson be revered or reviled? The question of how to grapple with the seventh president’s tarnished reputation has persisted since Old Hickory’s lifetime.

Known as a strong-willed, argumentative and combative personality, Jackson, who served as president from 1829 to 1837, inspires conflicting reactions. Admirers cite him as a populist hero who challenged the political establishment and ushered in a key era of American exploration and westward expansion. Critics say it's wrong to valorize him since he owned enslaved people, treated them harshly and forced Native Americans to be removed from their ancestral lands, causing thousands of deaths. Once so revered that his face was chosen for the $20 bill, Jackson has more recently inspired a tussle between consecutive Treasury secretaries over whether to keep him there. And in 2018, news that Jackson’s grave was vandalized at The Hermitage, his plantation in Nashville, Tennessee, breathed new life into the debate. Here’s why so many have questioned his legacy:

Why Andrew Jackson's Legacy Is So Controversial | HISTORY

The seventh president has a particularly harsh record when it comes to enslaved people and Native Americans.

www.history.com

On the one hand, Jackson was a war criminal and responsible for mass genocide of American Indians and also created corruption via the spoils system

On the other hand, he was America's first Democrat, and as such, needs to be lied about and/or ignored to help protect him

Difficult.

All we can know for sure is, Orange man bad and the worst US President EVA!!!

 

[marvin martian]

On the one hand, Jackson was a war criminal and responsible for mass genocide and corruption via the spoils system

On the other hand, he was America's first Democrat, and as such, needs to be lied about and/or ignored to help protect him

Difficult.

That's why race traitors like Hellbilly joined Jackson's racist party.

 

[Mindful]

On the one hand, Jackson was a war criminal and responsible for mass genocide of American Indians and also created corruption via the spoils system

On the other hand, he was America's first Democrat, and as such, needs to be lied about and/or ignored to help protect him

Difficult.

All we can know for sure is, Orange man bad and the worst US President EVA!!!

Well, he did win the Battle of New Orleans. Things might have turned out very differently if he hadn’t. The British had got their eye on Louisiana for a Crown Colony.

 

[Hellbilly]

Who freed the slaves, Republicans or democrats?

That’s a trick question. Not falling for it.

 

[BS Filter]

That’s a trick question. Not falling for it.

You're an idiot.

 

[Votto]

Well, he did win the Battle of New Orleans. Things might have turned out very differently if he hadn’t. The British had got their eye on Louisiana for a Crown Colony.

That is the other thing.

Presidents who were war time generals are often glorified for their conquests.

Just look around in Washington DC. You see monuments to who? It is to Washington, Lincoln, FDR, and Jefferson. Only Jefferson was not a war time President, which speaks volumes as to why he got a monument amongst his war time peers. Jefferson was simply an intellectual giant among them.

 

[marvin martian]

That’s a trick question. Not falling for it.

Hint: the party you belong to did NOT free the slaves, and did NOT protect the natives. Which is, of course, why you joined.

 

[Mindful]

That is the other thing.

Presidents who were war time generals are often glorified for their conquests.

Just look around in Washington DC. You see monuments to who? It is to Washington, Lincoln, FDR, and Jefferson. Only Jefferson was not a war time President, which speaks volumes as to why he got a monument amongst his war time peers. Jefferson was simply an intellectual giant among them.

I visited the Lincoln Memorial, and that huge statue of the man.

Yet some people detest him, and are pleased about the assassination.