
What is meant by barbaric? In reality, this is little more than propagandized liberal discourse, which has left 1 in 4 women to be sexually assaulted while pretending to care about people. If barbarism means stopping rapes, then I wholeheartedly embrace barbarism because this culture sucks ass. True civility is the stopping of rape, the swift foot of justice trampling upon the unjust. This system has failed, it will continue to fail unless changed
They didn’t kill enough gangsters, the 18th amendment actually worked pretty well for its aims. Spousal abuse went down, drunk accidents and fights went down. The country just found itself amidst a depression with limited technological capacity to substantively act against criminals and the need to raise tax revenues/overall industry to save the state
because the 18th amendment was the GOAL of the women's temperance movement. correlation does not equal causation. racism is one of the biggest grievances before the civil rights movement, does that mean that when it was relegated as a grievance, racism had ended? of course not. now i don't use that analogy as a platform for you to insert your beliefs about the civil rights movement. it is to show that media grievances aren't dispositive of statistics and they're often exacerbated politically
The 18th amendment was repealed and we went back to a lot of the same issues that plagued us before, some of which were temporarily offset via the spur of economic development post war. I admit material conditions play a significant role in history, although I am no dialectical materialist. Post civil rights we’ve seen regular mobilization of black people airing grievances from the black panthers to the recent BLM movement—bc there were still issues that went unresolved, bc the CRA didn’t go far
and particularly targeting the settler class. maybe we should ask ourselves why white men in particular are the most predisposed to various forms of violence. the violence was largely absent from this continent until he showed up. on this continent, the brothels, the sex trade, slave trade, all share one common european ancestor