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Hematomato on scored.co
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>The idea is that white Anglo-saxon men can build a country for their posterity free from the king of England.
It was just "white" back then. The "Anglo-saxon" bit didn't become popular for another hundred years or so, when New Yorkers started screaming "What's with these fucking Italians and Poles and Irish? These foreigners need to go back to their own countries!"
No, back in 1776 whites living in the US colonies knew exactly what other whites were doing in Europe, and wanted nothing to do with them either.
They were taking Anglo-Saxon ideals, Locke's concepts of government, and the fallout of the English Civil War to its logical and inevitable conclusion.
It was just "white" back then. The "Anglo-saxon" bit didn't become popular for another hundred years or so, when New Yorkers started screaming "What's with these fucking Italians and Poles and Irish? These foreigners need to go back to their own countries!"
They were taking Anglo-Saxon ideals, Locke's concepts of government, and the fallout of the English Civil War to its logical and inevitable conclusion.