An historian at Boston University both praises a couple robber barons (Carnegie and Rockefeller) and then compares the UFC event at the White House to lynching.
She said during the Gilded Age there was no “open display of denigration of American symbols and American values” like there supposedly is now.
She then praised people like JD Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie for saying they were “offering a way forward for the United States.”
Richardson then said Trump “is deliberately tear that apart and he is doing so on the same cultural argument of course that people used to back the first Gilded age that is these cultural wars that turn white Americans against marginalized people of color.”
UFC does not appeal to me. I would not have hosted it at my home. But this comparison is just absurdly stupid. If there is anyone tearing apart our culture today and denigrating American symbols and values, look at the Poison Ivy League universities and the Democratic Party.
Lynching usually involved dragging men out of jails, frequently castrating them, hanging them or burning them to death.
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