Major General Dr Leonard Wood (1860-1927), an American army doctor and general, was the scourge of the Apaches, leader of the Rough Riders, pet of Theodore Roosevelt and commander of the Moro massacre. He was an American governor of Cuba (1899-1902) and the Philippines (1921-1927).
He was doctor to two presidents (Cleveland, McKinley), friend of a third (Theodore Roosevelt) and ran for president himself in 1920. He won the Republican primary in New Hampshire, his home state, but lost to Harding at the party convention.
He is the descendant of four Pilgrim Fathers: William White, Francis Cooke, Stephen Hopkins and Richard Warren. All four came to North America in 1620 on the Mayflower.
He is the namesake of at least a fort, a hospital, an attack transport, a school, a street and a road. The last three are in the Philippines.
- 1886: Apache Wars – took part in the defeat of Geronimo, completing the American conquest of Arizona. He fought the Apaches in hand-to-hand combat and made captain. Congress gave him a Medal of Honour for his bravery.
- 1898: Spanish-American War – led the Rough Riders (1st Volunteer Cavalry regiment) to overthrow Spanish rule in Cuba. The Riders called themselves Wood’s Weary Walkers: most of their horses never arrived and, contrary to legend, they were led by Wood, not Teddy Roosevelt. Wood made brigadier general and became military governor of Cuba (see below).
- 1902-1906: Philippine-American War – made major general. Served as governor of Moro province from 1903 to 1906, the scene of the Moro massacre (see below).
He was Army Chief of Staff from 1910 to 1914.
During the First World War he was stuck in Kansas training army divisions. It seems he was too much a creature of Teddy Roosevelt for President Wilson to give him field command in Europe or make him Secretary of War.
As governor of Cuba (1899-1902), Wood helped force the Platt Amendment on Cuba. As he told Roosevelt:
There is, of course, little or no independence left Cuba under the Platt Amendment.
When Cubans protested, he told President McKinley:
The people of Cuba lend themselves readily to all sorts of demonstrations and parades, and little significance should be attached to them.
The Moro massacre (1906): Mark Twain, satirist and vice president of the Anti-Imperialist League, called it:
incomparably the greatest victory that was ever achieved by the Christian soldiers of the United States.
That was sarcastic: In a day and a half the Americans under Wood’s command wiped out more than 600 people, mostly women and children stuck at the bottom of the crater of Bud Dajo. Wood had everyone killed, even babies. The Moro men faced American artillery and guns with little more than knives, clubs and some outdated guns. Only 15 Americans died.
Wood received this cablegram from the president:
Washington, March 10.
Wood, Manila: — I congratulate you and the officers and men of your command upon the brilliant feat of arms wherein you and they so well upheld the honor of the American flag.
(Signed) Theodore Roosevelt
See also:
Now I know, and knowing is half the battle. On the real though, white people seem to have an insatiable lust for conquest whether it’s on the battlefield or in offices on Wall Street.
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Da Jokah’s hero!
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Oddly enough when I was considering joining the Peace Corps in 1968 I had to take my physical at Glenview Naval Airbase, Illinois. The doctor who gave me my check was a little old Marine who told me he was an active participant in the Moro War. He told me of the utter ferocity of the Muslim Moros who fought to the last man. He told me they just kept on charging US forces totally fearless.
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This historical figure is a great idea for White History Month.
Still, why are we showing an old Japanese version map of the Philippine Islands. Would it be preferable to display a map showing where Jolo is?
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[…] Major General Dr Leonard Wood (1860-1927), an American army doctor and general, was the scourge of the Apaches, leader of the Rough Riders, pet of Theodore Roosevelt and commander of the Moro massacre. He was an American governor of Cuba (1899-1902) and the Philippines (1921-1927). […]
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Leonard Wood. another inbred piece of crap!
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How horrible.
Heard of the Moros, but the massacre and Jolo is new to me.
Is there an explanation of why this population were murdered?
The attack was part of a war campaign, but what was the rationale and what was the aftermath? The news article says that it was first US incursion against a Muslim enemy — is this true? Was it like a Crusade?
How do the people of this region remember it? What was the impact?
I’be, tried to find a clear internet map that shows this part of Muslim Philippines, but there’s not that much.
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The wikipedia article on the First Battle of Bud Dajo gives a very different account.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Bud_Dajo#Road_to_Bud_Dajo
Bud Dajo was populated by guerrillas and outlaws who were angry that the Americans had abolished slavery and cracked down on their raids to steal women and cattle. As a result, they moved to the crater at the top of a volcano from which they continued to launch raids against nearby villages and ambush American troops. They were considered outlaws and opposed by most Moros. The reluctance of troops to assault the fortress emboldened the guerrillas. This attracted other outlaws to join them and the population grew to several hundred. The Sultan of Sulu and other high ranking datus to ask the rebels to return to their homes, but the rebels refused.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Bud_Dajo#Battle
Far from a slaughter of innocent, peace loving civilians, the rest of the wikipedia article describes two days of US troops fighting their way up the side of the volcano, with frequent ambush from Moro guerrillas emerging from hidden paths where much of the fighting was hand to hand with bayonets against spears and swords.
Rather than American soldiers mowing down innocent, unarmed women and children, we see that the Moros living at Bud Dajo were outlaws who first rejected appeals to return to their homes and later rejected numerous appeals throughout the battle to surrender. We also see that much of the fighting was hand to hand with bayonets against spears and swords, that women dressed as men to participate in the battle and that the Moro men used their own children as human shields.
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@ Da Jokah
The massacre took place at the end of the battle after the Americans took the top of crater. The account is based on press accounts of the time, not conflicting excuses given later by American authorities. Or the Wikipedia.
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Many of the casualties took place in the numerous skirmishes on the side of the mountain before they ever reached the crater. The battle after they reached the crater is described:
The Moros continued to fight and refused to surrender. That’s not a massacre in spite of the lop-sided casualties. That’s people who are too stupid to know when they’ve lost.
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@ Da Jokah
Not a massacre? Even your precious Wikipedia calls it a massacre, one of the worst in Filipino history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Philippines
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@ Da Jokah
Is it like a requirement for White Americans to co-sign all the atrocities of their history? And all their bad policing of minority communities too? Or are you allowed to have an independent mind and a sense of morals?
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Like I posted; Da Jokah’s hero! It is a waste of time arguing with a sociopath. There is no excuse for slaughter. On second thought there is if you are Da Jokah!
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@ jefe
I have a huge Japanese world map from 1914. It allows me to show countries large enough for the post, at the same scale and in the same style. And it is from close to that time.
Showing a map where Jolo is (the island where the massacre took place) would make sense if the post was just on the massacre, but I did not think it necessary for one on Wood. In the text I did not even say which part of the Philippines it was in (in the south-west, in the island chain between Mindanao and Borneo).
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abagond ,
Calling something a “massacre” and putting it on a list doesn’t make it a massacre. The First Battle of Bud Dajo doesn’t fit the definition of a massacre.
The Moros continued to fight and refused to surrender. That’s not a massacre in spite of the lop-sided casualties. That’s people who are too stupid to know when they’ve lost.
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@ Bulanik
The first American war against Muslims that I know of was the First Barbary War (1801-1805):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
Christopher Hitchens wrote of it:
http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_2_urbanities-thomas_jefferson.html
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@ Da Jokah
You are using the Wikipedia to say that it was not a massacre, yet the Wikipedia itself says it was a massacre:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moro_Crater_massacre
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Is it like a requirement for White Americans to co-sign all the atrocities of their history? And all their bad policing of minority communities too? Or are you allowed to have an independent mind and a sense of morals?
Abagond, from what I’ve seen, Da Jokah is the “exception of the rule”, so to speak. Some White Americans would rather stray away from those atrocities. The old white proverb “We weren’t there. So, why should we be held responsible” comes to mind here. But some would not consider this a big deal to discuss.
On the flip side, he wants us to take some responsibility for black crime as he addressed that we should talk about it a short while back while dismissing any post pertaining to white violence from any time.
Jokah doesn’t think the killing of the Moros isn’t a massacre let alone considered important to bring up. Yet, he jumps at a chance to use the white proverb that “Blacks commit more crimes”.
To him, it seems like the violence done by whites in the past and present shouldn’t matter, but black violence should.
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I want to know what Jokah’s definition of a massacre is.
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i think walpole and jokah have some sort of 10000 death minimum or something, like if it was their kid, i’m sure that would be enough to call in the international criminal court for war crimes though!!! send ’em to the hague!!!
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^ Indeed, even the wikipedia defines a massacre as “a specific incident in which a military force, mob, or other group kill many people”
I suppose that DJ requires that there be a helpless victim, and if a group of people even try to resist, then they are somehow no longer helpless.
But, that is not the generally accepted definition of massacre. By DJ’s own account, the Moro were obviously outnumbered, outgunned, overpowered, implying that the Americans were the power in control of the force that resulted in the massacre. If, say, a group of people tried to resist a force dropping aerial bombs on them with spears, and they all got killed by the bombs, it is not reasonable to state that a massacre did not occur because there was some resistance.
The Oxford dictionary (the “official” reference on this blog) defines it as “the killing of a large number of people especially in a cruel way”, which, of course this satisfies.
So, whether DJ uses the wikipedia definitions and reference or the oxford dictionary, he cannot support the idea that these are not massacres. I guess it just came out of the Jokah dictionary which he carries in his head.
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@ Da Jokah
To the point that the Moro were somehow crazed, highly dangerous fighters, the Americans lost only 15 out of 540 men. Even the Wikipedia puts it at only 18.
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The story of this massacre gives food for thought why there is particularly large animosity towards Americans in the Sulu Archipelago and why US govt particularly recommends Americans not to go there. IT also might explain why they resent the Manila govt that cosies up to the US.
There are always reports that Americans there are often kidnapped on sight, or subject to even more difficult treatment, even death. They are seen almost like prisoners of the 100 year war.
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@ jefe
LMAO!
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@abagond
If you notice, your Japanese map of the Philippines you used depicts the Sulu archipelago as not belonging to the US Commonwealth of the Philippines – but as part of Sabah (ie, British North Borneo). Was that the intention?
Britain ceded them to Spain before the Spanish-American war, but the Sulu islanders have never accepted this.
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abagond “You are using the Wikipedia to say that it was not a massacre, yet the Wikipedia itself says it was a massacre:”
I’ve explained this before but you may have missed it. I base my arguments on Wikipedia’s sources and not Wikipedia itself. I merely use Wikipedia because it’s sources are so well-cited. Furthermore, it’s a fallacy to say that if one accepts one Wikipedia source they have to accept every Wikipedia source.
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jefe “By DJ’s own account, the Moro were obviously outnumbered, outgunned, overpowered, implying that the Americans were the power in control of the force that resulted in the massacre.”
If the military goes to criminal insurgents’ headquarters and opened fire without giving them an opportunity to surrender then it’s a massacre. But if the soldiers give them every opportunity to surrender and they not only refuse but attack then it’s not. When criminal insurgents charge soldiers with should the soldiers stand there and do nothing because the gang is “outnumbered, outgunned and overpowered”? I don’t think that’s reasonable.
“If, say, a group of people tried to resist a force dropping aerial bombs on them with spears, and they all got killed by the bombs, it is not reasonable to state that a massacre did not occur because there was some resistance.”
That’s not what happened.
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(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWchy6ykNnQ)
“My Lai Massacre”
Village of My Lai 4, Vietnam war
It was only 500 something civilians…
that’s what defines ‘massacre’ to me, as well as wiki, ie killing civilians particularly by ‘regular’ forces, although this latest Crimean incident is straining that definition by all the people with no unit designators and masks on…, Jokah left the last part of the sentence off:
“A massacre is a specific incident in which a military force, mob, or other group kill many people—and the perpetrating party is perceived as in total control of force while the victimized party is perceived as helpless or innocent. No clear-cut criteria defines when a mass killing is a massacre. ”
source:WIKIPEDIA
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Someone, anyone, what is the exact wording for “massacre” in D Jokah dictionary? I cannot find it online. Can we get a copy? Can someone share it?
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@jefe
Massacre: Whatever I say it is that will support what I believe.
Source: Da Jokah dictionary of delusions
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@ Da Jokah
You have implied in many of your posts that you are highly educated. Given that, I’m surprised at your constant references to Wikipedia.
Often, the references cited in a Wikipedia article are news articles and blog posts – sources that do not hold water when you’re building an evidence base. First year university students quickly realise that using Wikipedia as a reference is one of the fastest ways to fail an assignment.
Anyway, I thought I’d get the ball rolling with a bit of research – just to help you out.
Here’s an article that talks about the Moli atrocity: (http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2264967?uid=3737536&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21103704221497). here’s another: (http://search.informit.com.au.simsrad.net.ocs.mq.edu.au/fullText;dn=850130294803734;res=IELIND)
Also, if you were as clever as you think you are you would have pulled Abagond up on his misquote of Mark Twain.
In fact, Mark Twain (while extremely racist in the way he talked about the victims) was scathing in his criticism of the American troops who perpetrated the massacre:
“How is it that our soldiers could not tell the breasts of a woman from the rudimentary paps of a man . . . that they couldn’t tell a toddling little child from a black six-footer[?]”
He also said:
“[How could they trap] six hundred helpless and weaponless savages in a hole like rats in a trap and massacre them in detail . . . from a safe position on the heights above… This was no brilliant feat of arms—and would not have been a brilliant feat of arms even if Christian America, represented by its salaried soldiers, had shot them down with Bibles and the Golden Rule instead of bullets.”
So there you go Da Jokah. A white, American man with racist views thought that the Moro killings were an atrocity.
Kinda takes the wind from the sails of your little Wikipedia supported arguments.
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@ Wordy
How did I misquote Twain?
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@ Abagond
I should clarify: you didn’t misquote him but you selectively quoted him. Your quote implied that he supported the massacre – he didn’t.
He was one of its main critics:
(http://search.informit.com.au.simsrad.net.ocs.mq.edu.au/fullText;dn=850130294)
If you can’t get the full text, I’ll email it to you.
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@ Abagond
And if you read the entire piece that your quote was pulled from, it’s abundantly clear Twain was being satirical:
(http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comments_on_the_Moro_Massacre_
Sorry for the Wiki source – however I assume it’s where you pulled your quote from.
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*Moro massacre.
Sorry for the typos, I’m up far too late.
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@ Wordy
Before the quote I put that Twain was a satirist and vice president of the Anti-Imperialist League. I thought that would make it clear he was being sarcastic.
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^ I reread it.
Before the quote I put that Twain was a satirist and vice president of the Anti-Imperialist League. I thought that would make it clear he was being sarcastic.
Make it clear? Not really. Your quote and set up for the quote are too thin, I think you’re seeing your setup through the constraint of the 500 words. Outside your self imposed rules, out in the world, an editor would have (I believe) told you to say more/give more.
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@ Wordy
I think I can safely say that King will consider your comment to Jokah a thing of beauty. I’m digging it too. You killed it! (Not that you need anyone’s approval, I’m being complimentary and hope you take it that way.)
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I think in Abagond’s quest to be terse and pithy, he might not see when he might not be clear.
OK, by saying that Mark Twain was a “satirist and vice president of the Anti-Imperialist League”, that implied that we was going to quote something satirical and anti-imperialistic, especially a “Christian” “victory” by “soldiers”.
I admit, that completely ran right past me. Until we delved into it, I (and wordynerdygirl) would believe that your quote implied that Twain supported the massacre. That was certainly the impression I got by the wording used. The disconnect happened because the reader might not automatically know that the next statement would be a satirical one. (I didn’t.)
Maybe a slight change (without adding word count) would make it clearer, eg,
Mark Twain, then vice president of the Anti-Imperialist League, satirically called it:
or
Mark Twain, vice president of the Anti-Imperialist League, called it (in his notorious satirical fashion):
“incomparably the greatest victory that was ever achieved by the Christian soldiers of the United States.”
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Legion beat me to the punch. 😛
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@ Abagond
Sorry, now I can see what you doing with your reference to Twain being a satirist. I still think it’s a little misleading though – jefe’s revisions would make it much clearer. I think the post is great of course but maybe a tiny bit of extra context would help.
@ Legion
Very glad you dig it 🙂
By the way, I really want to reply to you on the ‘Gentleman’ thread. It’s 3:43am here though so I’m going to comment after I’ve had 40 winks.
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Mark Twain, vice president of the Anti-Imperialist League, called it (in his notorious satirical fashion):
“incomparably the greatest victory that was ever achieved by the Christian soldiers of the United States.”
Personally, I like that one.
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Get your sleep girl. 🙂
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@ Wordy @ Legion @ Jefe
Thanks. I changed the text to say:
The Moro massacre (1906): Mark Twain, satirist and vice president of the Anti-Imperialist League, called it:
That was sarcastic: In a day and a half the Americans under Wood’s command wiped out more than 600 people, mostly women and children stuck at the bottom of the crater of Bud Dajo. Wood had everyone killed, even babies. The Moro men faced American artillery and guns with little more than knives, clubs and some outdated guns. Only 15 Americans died.
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@ abagond, what you have written is not sarcastic at all.
Sarcasm is a sour jab at something, often petty.
Instead, what you have written is bitterly ironic — language used for emphasis that normally signifies the opposite.
On a subject like this that I know practically nothing about, theses facts are all the more sobering for the great irony of your language.
Thank you.
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Yeah, *technically* what Twain said was verbally ironic, not necessarily sarcastic per se (which, as Bulanik suggests, a sharp, biting remark), but I think he intended it to be sarcastic. But by saying “he was sarcastic” so directly, it kills the irony in the statement. The meaning is certainly clearer, though.
I might have said “Mark Twain, vice president of the Anti-Imperialist League and famous for his ironic satire, called it: (and then delete the “That was sarcastic;”). But that’s me.
Sorry, I don’t mean to make jabs. Abagond should mean what he wants it to mean. I know Bulanik wants me to stop. 😛
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Yes. How did you know ;-D
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Jefe, also a *cultural* difference, too.
I realized this from reading this blog: apparently, “sarcasm” covers both sarcasm and irony. 😀
When I saw phrases like *sarcasm on and *sarcasm off, when a commenter said something that is ironic or sardonic, and wanted to annouce it, I used to say “Oh, why’s that” to myself…..LOL.
This is not so everywhere English is the first language.
I grew up understand that a phrase like War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength was ironic. (From George Orwell’s “1984”)
When I studied George Orwell in school, meanings were often discussed: sarcasm is always negative, even when it’s a light taunt.
Irony is far more impersonal, not meant as a dig — and also more flexible.
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Oxford says:
sarcastic
Line breaks: sar|cas¦tic
Pronunciation: /sɑːˈkastɪk /
ADJECTIVE
Marked by or given to using irony in order to mock or convey contempt:
‘making sarcastic comments’
‘I think they’re being sarcastic’
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sarcastic?q=sarcastic
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Marked by or given to using irony in order to mock or convey contempt:
‘making sarcastic comments’
‘I think they’re being sarcastic’
It’s got my picture beside that Oxford definition!
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@ Jefe
I agree it kills the irony. I liked my original much better – but what good is that if people are not getting it? Your edit is pretty much what I said to start with. I think the word “sarcastic” is much better understood than “ironic”.
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You are correct, sir!
Nice work wordynerdy!
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@ Abagond, it’s easy to have misunderstandings.
I understand now why you (and others) have to point out what you doing in your writing.
When you say you think the word “sarcastic” is much better understood than “ironic”, apparently yes — but you do mean in some cultures, don’t you?
(Irony is pretty standard in everyday British speech, and actually used as a “preposition”.*)
Sarcasm ONLY uses irony. Irony doesn’t use sarcasm.
(*Ricky Gervais)
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wordynerdy “Also, if you were as clever as you think you are you would have pulled Abagond up on his misquote of Mark Twain.”
If you were as clever as you think you are you would have realized Abagond didn’t misquote Mark Twain.
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O.T.
These new smileys suck–BIG TIME!
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@ Da Jokah
Is that your rebuttal?
I clarified that I meant Twain’s quote was taken out of context and that the way that the quote was included in the post was misleading.
Back to my original point: you claimed, based on a Wikipedia article, that the Moro incident wasn’t a massacre. I’ve pointed to a contemporaneous account that says otherwise.
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@wordynerdygirl
*applause*
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If this is a method to condemn white people to be full of the tendency to murder, then I guess it would be valid for me to say that the Rwandan genocide is an example of the average black man’s lust for killing? Pretty racist if you ask me.
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^ BUT Who set up the preconditions for the Rwandan genocide?
[Research]
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Cultural and political tension between the Hutu and Tutsi? Not sure where you’re going with this.
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Read about the German, then Belgium colonizations and how their imposed racial philosophies primed Rwanda for genocide. By exacerbating a relatively more benign cultural hierarchy into a full-blown “racial” war of subjugation and finally, extermination.
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Can someone explain to me how a post about Leonard Wood equals condemning white people? I ask this because this is the second time I have read where someone (gaylord) came to that conclusion.
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Gaylord,
Explain, how is this post a condemnation of white people?
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@Sharina,
I commented about that phenomenon here:
Someone makes one comment about how a white person in the past committed certain atrocious behaviors and suddenly it is an attack on the “white race” and someone crawls out of the woodwork to protect the image of the white race and to assuage his white guilt. It is really a strange phenomenon, but it seems to occur a lot. There are only a few whites whose behaviors one can condemn (eg, Hitler) without these critters crawling out.
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@ Gaylord
I did a post on John Brown: Does that mean I praise white people to be full of the tendency to fight for equal rights?
I did a post on St Francis of Assisi: Does that mean I praise white people to be full of the tendency to be saints?
I did a post on Sophia Loren: Does that mean I praise white women to be full of the tendency to be beauties?
I did a post on Leonardo da Vinci: Does that mean I praise white people to be full of the tendency to be artistic geniuses?
I did a post on Galileo: Does that mean I praise white people to be full of the tendency to be scientific geniuses?
I did a post on Thomas Aquinas: Does that mean I praise white people to be full of the tendency to philosophize?
I did a post on Charles Lyell: Does that mean I praise white people to be full of the tendency to make advances in geology?
I did a post on Nathaniel Wyeth: Does that mean I praise white people to be full of the tendency to invent?
I did a post on Steve Jobs: Does that mean I praise white people to be full of the tendency to be entrepreneurs?
I did a post on Jonathan Ive: Does that mean I praise white people to be full of the tendency to do industrial design?
I did a post on Aldus Manutius: Does that mean I praise white people to be full of the tendency to print books?
I did a post on Stanley Kubrick: Does that mean I praise white people to be full of the tendency to direct films?
I did a post on how George Orwell made a cup of tea: Does that mean I praise white people to be full of the tendency to make cups of tea?
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Explain, how is this post a condemnation of white people?
It isn’t. It is however, to this guys paranoid way of thinking. If you are not kissing white behind and telling them, heck, thanking them fro their help, then the flip the script and voila, you are the racist. A neat trick.
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@King I realize that; however, it was still the Africans that carried out the genocide. You can’t say that the Holocaust is the fault of the allies for imposing severe punishments on Germany at the end of WW1, which was what allowed Hitler to come into power.
As for everyone else, it is heavily implied in this post that murder and killing is held in good opinion to the majority of whites. I could be misinterpreting what the abagond said, of course, but I’d like to see him/her make a similarly critical post on Joseph Kony or Idi Amin.
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@abagond Of course you wouldn’t. That would require you to say something that isn’t highly critical of white people.
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@ Gaylord
The point is not to absolve Rwandans os any I guilt at all. It was simply to point out that your original statement,
“I guess it would be valid for me to say that the Rwandan genocide is an example of the average black man’s lust for killing?”
is unreasonable, given the outside influences.
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Gaylord
He could make a post on those individuals, but it would not set aside your misinterpretation of this post and others. One white man does not equal ALL white people and the wrongs of one white man does not equal the wrongs of ALL white people. As Jefe and Herneith pointed our. Just your white guilt and need to protect the white image talking.
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It was meant to be unreasonable. Using a white led genocide to imply that white people have murderous tendencies is the same thing as using a black led genocide to imply that black people have murderous tendencies. Doing either of those things is ridiculous.
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Where did anyone do that in this post? (Honest question)
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@Sharina I recognized that I may be wrong about the point of this post. I would be thankful if someone would enlighten me on what it is actually about.
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@King It feels heavily implied from many of abagonds posts that he believes modern white people share the same beliefs of white people that caused tragedies like slavery, the mass genocide of Native Americans, and the KKK.
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Gaylord
It is a simple history lesson on Leonard Wood and the wrongs he did. What is it you need to be enlightened on?
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Whether or not the “whites are evil” vibes I get from a lot of his posts are true.
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Gaylord
Abagond is not one who is afraid to say what he will. If he wanted to make this post about what he thinks of what people in general he would have. If he wants to make it about an historic azz hole he will. When you start trying to interpret what he is saying instead of reading what he is saying is when you start to project your feelings and thoughts onto his post.
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Correction white people.
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Gaylord, there are still SOME Whites today who have the same beliefs as Whites several decades ago. Just go to Yahoo comments and look up a posting on a Black athlete.
There are some Whites who have evolved in their beliefs to some extent but who are still prejudiced in some ways.
There are Whites today who refuse to acknowledge that they benefit socially from the presuppositions of “White Privilege.”
And there are also Whites who totally get it…
The same can be said about Blacks.
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@ Gaylord
Whites are a mix of good and evil, like everyone else. The racism of White Americans, though, makes them worse than most. It normalizes evil, like in the case of Major General Dr Wood or Dr Sims, who went onto glory and fame instead of prison or shame.
Sims became head of the AMA. A statue to honour him still stands in New York.
Wood became Army Chief of Staff, then governor of the Philippines. To this day there are still things named in his honour.
Do you notice anything wrong with that?
On top of that, people on this very blog, in 2014, are STILL trying to make what they did seem not so bad. So much so that I have to argue against the slaughter and torture of innocents. That is completely nuts. It means the racism and its sick mindset is still alive and well.
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..Is it any wonder why so many countries (including that of the Moro) are fed up with the U.S. military occupation that has long been protested on a world-wide basis!? It’s almost laughable when someone critiques American imperialism (and other issues) only to be told by (mostly ignorant bigots) “Well, if you don’t like it here in the ‘States, then leave and go back to (insert country)”-as if that will keep someone from having to deal with their bullying tactics if they do leave, which anyone can clearly see is virtually fruitless.. SMH
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Gaylord, this blog wasn’t brought into existence to placate your ‘white’ feelings.
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[…] Major General Dr Leonard Wood (1860-1927), an American army doctor and general, was the scourge of the Apaches, leader of the Rough Riders, pet of Theodore Roosevelt and commander of the Moro massacre. He was an American governor of Cuba (1899-1902) and the Philippines (1921-1927). […]
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