weirdly, learning about the spiritualist attitude toward manifest destiny turned me around on spiritualism, from seeing it as silly to seeing it as sort of Sweet Pure Cinnamon Roll innocent and idealistic
https://twitter.com/skwithycombe/status/1413182875613151240
like when almost every white American was like YES MANIFEST DESTINY, OBVIOUSLY
the spiritualists were like fuck no and joined Indian Rights movements
the spiritualists were like fuck no and joined Indian Rights movements
Also never forget that we could have had Victoria Woodhull and Frederick Douglass as a president-VP combo if America hadn't been like "what, this woman thinks marriage is a trap for women? she must be a devil-slut!" and tanked her chances
like, don't get me wrong, there was still a lot that was problematic as fuck about it
one of the ways spiritualists tried to convince their fellow Americans that genociding Natives was wrong was to channel "Indian spirits" who protested the genocide and land theft
one of the ways spiritualists tried to convince their fellow Americans that genociding Natives was wrong was to channel "Indian spirits" who protested the genocide and land theft
so, like, they were doing whatever the Indigenous equivalent of blackface is
but that seems less horrible and more tone-deaf when the whole reason they were doing it was to attempt to get people to stop a genocide
but that seems less horrible and more tone-deaf when the whole reason they were doing it was to attempt to get people to stop a genocide
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