jostler.bsky.social
Semi-retired history professor, University of Oregon. Thinking about genocide.
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Completely ridiculous.
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Just finished Aziz Rana's book The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them. Highly recommended.
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If the video is too long, there is a written version drawing from the interview. #Israel #Gaza #genocide #warCrimes #IHL #intLaw #GenCon www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...
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After the game ended, we discussed debates about slavery and the Constitution (Wilentz vs. Waldstreicher), Constitution and Native Nations (Ablavsky), and Aziz Rana's article "Constitutional Collapse" on Constitution today. Love these students!
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Very interesting. Students in a course I've been teaching on the Constitutional Convention today read Ablavsky's article "The Savage Constitution." Seems you are working in a similar direction to him?
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Do you know the final tally?
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I'm using the Reacting Con Con game spring term (on the quarter system). Also (frighteningly) timely.
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A massive failure occurred 4 years ago when the Senate failed to convict an insurrectionist.
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A great book, IMHO
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I'll look forward to reading this. I hope you consider how evictions/deportations/ethnic cleansing are often genocides. www.neh.gov/article/trai...
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F-P thinks that this is an example of "Chomskian relativism and ideological projection at their worst," whatever this means. FWIW, the inspiration for my "radical" views was Tocqueville who wrote of U.S. Indian policy: "It is impossible to destroy men with more respect to the laws of humanity."
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Yes, GW (and other presidents) often talked like they were "friends of the Indian." In SURVIVING GENOCIDE I wrote that a "particular genius of the American people" is "their ability to inflict catastrophic destruction all the while claiming to be benevolent."
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Because consent was not freely given, many Native leaders thought the land cessions were THEFT and organized movements to defend against an invasion. This led to genocidal violence (see above).
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Under these conditions, some Native leaders “agreed” to land cessions, but consent was not freely given. Was this theft? If someone comes to F-P’s house and threatens to kill his family if he doesn’t sign over his house, he will cry foul.
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Instead of saying, “OK, you can keep your lands,” GW (and subsequent presidents) turned to PLAN B: use a variety of coercive and devious means to force Native leaders to agree to land cessions. This included implicit and overt threats of extermination (i.e., genocidal violence).
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F-P could try to argue that GW didn't want to steal land, just buy it. Sadly for F-P, that won’t work either. Washington HOPED Indigenous Nations would agree to sell. That was his PLAN A. But, guess what, they did not want to give up their lands and happily retreat.
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As Calloway points out, however, the boundary line would NOT BE PERMANENT. In the very same letter GW says the Indians “will ever retreat as our Settlements advance upon them, and they will be as ready to sell, as we are to buy.” F-P doesn't quote this part. He is dishonest.