{"id":11688,"date":"2012-08-13T12:02:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T19:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11688"},"modified":"2012-08-13T12:36:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T19:36:20","slug":"arabs-savages-deja-vu-us-indian-wars-after-the-louisiana-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11688","title":{"rendered":"Arabs Savages &#8211; D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu US Indian Wars after the Louisiana Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/savages-e1344883847868.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/savages-e1344883847868.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\" \" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11689\" \/><\/a>  August 2012  <a href=\"http:\/\/angryarab.blogspot.fr\/2012\/08\/israeli-racist-ads-on-san-francisco.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Mit Romney&#8217;s GOP Vice Presidential Candidate, Congressman Paul Ryan, embraces the extreme philosophy of Ayn Rand. Ryan heaped praise on Ayn Rand, a 20th-century libertarian novelist best known for her philosophy that centered on the idea that selfishness is \u201cvirtue.\u201d Rand described altruism as \u201cevil,\u201d condemned Christianity for advocating compassion for the poor, viewed the feminist movement as \u201cphony,\u201d and called Arabs \u201calmost totally primitive savages. Though he publicly rejected \u201cher philosophy\u201d in 2012, Ryan had professed himself a strong devotee. \u201cThe reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand,\u201d he said at a D.C. gathering honoring the author of \u201cAtlas Shrugged\u201d and \u201cThe Fountainhead.\u201d \u201cI give out \u2018Atlas Shrugged\u2019 as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it. Well\u2026 I try to make my interns read it.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2uHSv1asFvU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n\tAmong the most detrimental policies for Native Americans in U.S. history began in the early 1800s. By 1830, Andrew Jackson had signed the Indian Removal Act, which authorized a plan to appropriate Indian land, a practice that had been followed since Europeans arrived in North America. The idea of segregating Indians onto poor land was first suggested by Thomas Jefferson after the Louisiana Purchase. Thus began a system of appropriating Indian land and undermining Indian culture that has been expressed throughout U.S. history. Although many Indians had taken on European cultural traits, including religious conversion, and worked their land using white methods, they were still considered incapable of assimilating into white society. Despite continuing efforts by Europeans to convert Indians to Christianity, they continued to be viewed as heathens in both popular cultural and society. <\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.understandingrace.org\/history\/society\/indian_wars_westward_exp.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;.more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D11688&amp;text=Arabs+Savages+-+D%C3%A9j%C3%A0+vu+US+Indian+Wars+after+the+Louisiana+Purchase&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 2012 &#8230;source Mit Romney&#8217;s GOP Vice Presidential Candidate, Congressman Paul Ryan, embraces the extreme philosophy of Ayn Rand. Ryan heaped praise on Ayn Rand, a 20th-century libertarian novelist best known for her philosophy that centered on the idea that selfishness is \u201cvirtue.\u201d Rand described altruism as \u201cevil,\u201d condemned Christianity for advocating compassion for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11688#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3353],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11691,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688\/revisions\/11691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}