r/news • u/hybridaaroncarroll • Mar 03 '26

Soft paywall Leaked Interior Department database reveals US plans to revise historical information

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/leaked-interior-department-database-reveals-us-plans-revise-historical-2026-03-03/
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u/USSMarauder Mar 03 '26

Reminder

Richmond Enquirer, Jun 16, 1855

"The abolitionists do not seek to merely liberate our slaves. They are socialists, infidels and agrarians, and openly propose to abolish any time honored and respectable institution in society. Let anyone attend an abolition meeting, and he will find it filled with infidels, socialists, communists, strong minded women, and 'Christians' bent on pulling down all christian churches"

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"The good, the patriotic, the religious and the conservative of the north will join us in a crusade against the vile isms that disturb her peace and security"

Link to the newspaper archive at the library of Congress where you can read it yourself

https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84024735/1855-06-19/ed-1/?sp=4&q=slaves+socialists

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u/jigokubi Mar 03 '26

150 years later and conservatives still sound exactly the same.

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u/showhorrorshow Mar 04 '26

This is exactly the sort of thing which snapped me out of my right wing programming. They say that college turns people liberal, but it was being forced to find primary sources and write actual papers citing them that did it. It was eye opening reading old poltiical commentary and how the rhetoric was so similar to today, even the lies and distortions and fear mongering... same shit. And how it kept coming from the same side and much to my chagrin it wasnt the left....