Looting Meme Boston Tea Party
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Looting meme boston tea party. It makes a mockery of our constitutional free government. 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. The boston tea party had a clear message to the target i e.
Close ranks and crack down. They are saying this is the same thing that happened during the revolutionary days of the boston tea party. It s nonsense to liken the recent riots looting and arson to the boston tea party which occurred dec.
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. 16 1773 at griffin s wharf in boston. 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.
Jarrett stepman is a contributor to the daily signal and co host of the right side of history podcast. 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. The crown did what governments often do in the face of civil unrest.
Although tea sellers probably were harmed by it they made sure the uk gov. 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. British government in response to a specific act.
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 tea party led to the military occupation of boston and the near ruination of the city s economy.
