Now we can look back and see the festering presence of social Darwinism lurking throughout the whole postwar era, like a monstrous Forrest Gump. The United States’ enduring attachment to empire and racial domination helped ensure the survival of social Darwinist ideas, just as the imperialist expansion of the late nineteenth century gave the ideology its initial purchase. In turn, these ideas, repackaged and sanitized by popular psychologists and libertarian economists, eventually helped to sanctify inequality as the foundation of the neoliberal order—to create a dog-eat-dog political economy that only strengthened the appeal of social Darwinism as an explanation of how society operates.
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harpers.org harpers.org
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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- manifest destiny
- The White Man's Burden
- William McKinley
- imperialism
- power over
- white power
- Philippine-American War
- Mark Twain
- Spanish-American War
- Boxer Rebellion
- Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria
- Dan Allosso Book Club 2024-09-28
- Rudyard Kipling
- mission of civilisation
- Benjamin Tillman
- colonialism
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www.politico.com www.politico.com
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: Trump's 2017 U.N. speech trans
Advocates for strong nation states as a way to elevate the human conditions. Argues that the UN post-WWII has been continually rigged against America. Smaller nations have broken the international system.
- Uses the word "sovereignty" 22 times — Voyant textual analysis.
- Nationalist document.
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Advocates for strong nation states as a way to elevate the human conditions. Argues that the UN post-WWII has been continually rigged against America. Smaller nations have broken the international system.
- Uses the word "sovereignty" 22 times — Voyant textual analysis.
- Nationalist document.
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www.english.illinois.edu www.english.illinois.edu
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Calling people out using the constructionist ideals — The American government is not living up to their high ideals.
Poetry as a way to express frustration when there is no way to go up against actual US military power. A weapon of the weak; a powerful message.
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www.firstworldwar.com www.firstworldwar.com
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This document informs the way Americans have seen themselves since the beginning of the twentieth century.
Interventions are presented as idealistically noble and undeniably moralistic. Instead of recognizing the complexities and consequences of intervention, we continue to propagate intervention as an ideological imperative
We take on the domestic issues of other nations without being invited to take part. We identify as the prevailer of freedom and democracy when these are just ideals that we aspire to, sometimes missing the mark just as terribly as the nations we seek to guide and coerce.
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