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Historian on reddit does ama of why everyone hates liberals. Answers are about what youd expect from reddit. (www.reddit.com)

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I scrolled through 3 comments and couldn't take it. The guy is a scholar of religon, with great hits like: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/tri-faith-america-9780195331769?q=Tri-Faith+America%3A+How+Postwar+Catholics+and+Jews+Held+America+to+its+Protestant+Promise&lang=en&cc=us (lmao yikes)

"Addresses the shift from distinctions of religion to those of race in postwar America." HHHHMMmm...

Tri-Faith America also shows how postwar Catholics and Jews used the new image to force the country to confront the challenges of pluralism. Should Protestant bibles be allowed on public school grounds? Should Catholic and Jewish fraternities be allowed to exclude Protestants? Should the government be allowed to count Americans by religion? Challenging the image of the conformist 1950s, Schultz describes how Americans were vigorously debating the merits of recognizing pluralism, paving the way for the civil rights movement and leaving an enduring mark on American culture.

Certainly and interesting? interpretation of events, I guess.

https://hist.uic.edu/profiles/schultz-kevin/

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

$95 for this slop I hope he starves

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

$95 for a book? Is that vellum codex illuminated and written by hand?

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

The demand to end segregation after the Civil War began almost immediately after the Civil War. Jackie Robinson was a major push forwards in exposing whites to desegregation. Then, of course, WWII where non-white combat units performed exceptionally, leading to desegregation in the military.

"Catholics paved the way for the Civil Rights movement" is some real white savior bullshit.

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand what he's trying to say here so I also don't understand the exactly problem with it besides a general "this sounds like bullshit made up by an academic in order to justify having an academic career." Is there something I should be be getting?

[–] i_drink_bleach@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

It's not even that deep. It's a blowhard that wrote a bunch of books hawking their own merch. That's it.