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Funny... based on the photo they appear to be dressed like colonial Americans.
But the Tea Partiers weren't dressed like that.
For some reason, they were dressed like indigenous Americans.
Can't imagine why this reenactment left that key detail out.
This was my first thought too.
I think if we looked at the Boston Tea Party with today's eyes, we might see it as what it really was: a bunch of rich, white racists who didn't want to pay taxes and so they threw a tantrum and vandalized a bunch of private property.
Couldn’t they have protested some other way, without destroying property? At least, that was the question asked by the US oligarchs during the protests in 2020.
Yes the right wing of America today would have sided with the British at the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre. It's hilarious to confront them with it. Two of my favorite topics to talk about with conservatives because when I inevitably lead them to dig into their position on the relevant subjects, I'll start describing these events while they maintain their positions and then name the events.
They know from their school days which side they are supposed to be on but cannot reconcile the fact that they aren't. Morons.
They could have. But they didn't. Just like the Jan 6 protestors.
The difference is that the Boston Tea Partiers were on the winning side of history. If the British had won the American Revolutionary War, then we'd be talking about those anti-social racists who ruined a bunch of tea because they were pissy about paying for it.
And if the Jan 6 terrorists had succeeded in overthrowing the government, future generations might end up learning about them as revolutionary heroes.
You obviously don’t understand that the tea party was an act of property destruction of a corporation that was given preferential treatment by the government. An “eat the rich” act against corporatism. We need more of that today yet here you are completely misrepresenting it and defending the mega corporations.
https://fee.org/resources/about-that-famous-tea-party/
Got it. So because you couldn't comprehend an article from a prominent historian regarding the true history of the Boston Tea Party you're just going to stick to your blatantly incorrect interpretation of the historical event. Your 5th grade teacher is not proud of you. You deserve the dictatorship that may be coming.
You don't need to be so rude
I legitimately found it hard to read the article because it looked like a text wall and text walls are hard to read for me personally
I'm not a fucking right winger
Bigots, transphobes and racists can go and fuck themselves and accusing me of being like those fuckers just because I said it was hard to read a text wall is pretty fucking rude
I won't excuse racism for anything and I hope you don't either
You're just as toxic as people on reddit and I hoped I wouldn't have had the same experience on lemmy
The second image in the carousel is a drawing of the event, which shows the Tea Partiers wielding what looks like tomahawks.
Didn't come up in the article tho.
You seem to know the history well. Why were the Tea Partiers dressed like indigenous people?
Plausible deniability.
Racism
Are you looking at a different photo than I am? Because they're dressed normally in the AP article
I was going to upload a screenshot of the image to show you but apparently image uploads are temporarily disabled on lemmy.world
Ashamed of your history? Don't worry, just whitewash it and pretend the ugly parts didn't happen. Now you can be proud again! Hurray!