Boston Tea Party Meme Looting
Spot the difference for me.
Boston tea party meme looting. The tea party at least had an identifiable opposition the british systemic racism is a lot more difficult to pin down on one particular party so while i condemn the actual looting i m not surprised shocked or particularly upset about it especially in contrast to the fact that people are still being murdered in the streets by rogue cops and. It makes a mockery of our constitutional free government. They claim if you don t support the looting and riots that you would most likely have been a royalist who quietly accepted everything the british were doing back in the day.
The boston tea party was a historical moment that we re taught in school when people rioted and protested against tax on tea. They are saying this is the same thing that happened during the revolutionary days of the boston tea party. Associating the violent destruction of a police station and wanton looting of businesses this past week with the boston tea party is an abuse of history.
Jarrett stepman is a contributor to the daily signal and co host of the right side of history podcast. One of the most galling and misleading arguments tossed around following the death of george floyd is an attempt to draw a parallel between the carnage sweeping the nation and the boston tea party. And that makes you not an american and a traitor and you should be executed or driven out of the country.
They boarded the company s ships. Oh yeah this is history all right. Keith lance getty images.
If you are against looting as a form of protest then you are against the boston tea party and you would have been a loyalist during the revolutionary war. The essence of the boston tea party is that new england radicals protested an act of british parliament that was designed to help the british east india company. Now people are doing the same over the murder of an unarmed black man and suddenly it s unethical and unamerican.
The boston tea party though not widely portrayed as looting is an illustrative example of some of the ways in which the term is applied says matthew clair assistant professor of sociology at.
