Very true but it was an direct agent of the British Crown and subsidized the Crown until it was nationalized by the British government. Private ownership was a convoluted thing in the 1700s Britain.The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. The event was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists. It showed Great Britain that Americans wouldn’t take taxation and tyranny sitting down, and rallied American patriots across the 13 colonies to fight for independence.
That's good, because you did. The Tea Party participants did not own the tea that they dumped, yet they destroyed it anyways. If you want to pretend that the tea belonged to the British government rather than to the BEIC, that's okay -- they still destroyed something that did not belong to them, just like the rioters burned down the police station in Minneapolis that belonged to the govt.
Not much changed after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, for black citizens in America. It wasn't until the riots of the later 1960s that white ppl woke up. Revolutions come at cost to the establishment.
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"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
TOP (05-29-2020)
Actually my black friends are more frustrated by white moderates who they feel are even more culpable than conservatives in that they compromise with conservatives on maintaining the status quo and are greater in numbers by far than conservatives. They consider them enablers. That’s not to let white liberals off the hook as I’ve seen white liberals guilty of some pretty egregious soft racism without even being conscious of it.
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ThatOwlWoman (05-29-2020)
As my Canadian relatives are quick to remind me, the American rebels confiscated loyalist tory property in the 1770s, and threatened and assaulted tories even if they were not actively aiding the British army
And that does not even account for the amount of Indian property and land the colonists confiscated, destroyed, stole
ThatOwlWoman (05-29-2020)
And I agree with you but that doesn't excuse your condoning the rioting going on in Minneapolis and other cities. Are you saying that race relations only get better when there is rioting and property destruction? I guess you think a race war would be good for America, hell what's a little blood spilled in the name of the greater good? Race relations = revolution, in the liberal world.
I thank God that I don't live in your area, at least in this southern area race doesn't matter with a few minor exceptions. People respect and help one another without regard to race.At least that was your earlier charge.I know why! We have several military bases in north Florida so that makes us special.
The entire above was sarcasm to make a point.
TOP (05-29-2020)
Cypress (05-29-2020)
Cypress (05-29-2020)
Oh dear, the hyperbole is out again. Kindly show me where I've condoned any rioting and property destruction. I merely pointed out that revolutions come at a cost, and countered your assertion that the 1770s colonists did not destroy private property too.
People do that all over, Ancient Bird. People also sometimes treat other people like shit all over.I thank God that I don't live in your area, at least in this southern area race doesn't matter with a few minor exceptions. People respect and help one another without regard to race. At least that was your earlier charge.
Apparently I missed your point. What was it again?The entire above was sarcasm to make a point.
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
TOP (05-29-2020)
You can go back to that old Malcolm X quote where he rails on white liberals. The essence of his statement was at least with white racists you knew where you stood and they were open about it. He said white liberals claimed to be friends to black people but would stab them in the back and weren't really allies. One can debate his comment for sure but it's a thought that's been around.
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