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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net to c/slop@hexbear.net

This is an old post, but I want to dunk on this idea because I've heard it in real life.

The common sense:

"...that barbarous and hellish power which hath stirred up Indians and Negroes to destroy us." — Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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[-] trabpukcip@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

In addition to what ham said, Paine was writing to a settler-colonist audience who greatly resented occupants of the land who weren't white, so it's an easy appeal to the audience to stoke racial animosity and "blame it on the guy who is responsible for all the other problems too"

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