Thread by @rogerahicks

America's founding fathers knew intuitively that creating a nation from different European peoples of the same race would be challenge enough, & that trying to include other, very different, races, like Native & Black Americans, would be impossible.

And so it has proven.

https://twitter.com/peterboghossian/status/1451748498865475587

This was why, in the 1790 Naturalisation Act, American citizenship was restricted to Whites.

America never became the nation its founders had hoped it would, but just a bigger, more powerful, clone of Great Britain: a mercenary #PatronState, deceitfully posing as a nation.

America, like Britain & all so-called #NationStates, is an Orwellian construct of lies, deceit & a regime of rewards & intimidation; a mercenary #PatronState deceitfully posing as a nation, in order to legitimise itself, its ruling elites & the immense power they wield & abuse.

Why have the academics we look to as authorities on understanding society & the state failed to recognise this?

Academics are privileged clients and employees of the state. That’s why. Instead of serving society, as supposed, they serve #BigBrother state, & themselves.

What motivated me to respond as I did to @peterboghossian's lecture?

It was his observation of how divided America is, to which the reasons I have given strike me as being very pertinent. There is no deep & meaningful sense of shared national identity, because there is none.

Interestingly, virtually all the on-line hatred I encounter is intra-racial, usually other Whites calling me a racist, a bigot, a Nazi & the like. I guess, because they wouldn't dare be so hateful towards anyone of a different race, for fear of being called a racist themselves.