
Radio War Nerd EP 378 — The US Civil War, Part 14: The USCT (US Colored Troops)
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The Insidious Idea of Immutable Superiority of the White Elite
The idea that, whoa, wait a minute, we all were dumbasses for fighting this war. But it just reminds me of a beautiful scene in Starship Troopers where somebody with one of the most obnoxious faces on film says in a talk show, intelligent bugs, I find that idea offensive. And like, okay, I mean, so what, you know, so what are the obvious answers? So what if you find it offensive? That's apparently what we're dealing with. This idea was so offensive to the Confederacy elite that they couldn't handle it. Clayburn could handle it because he was a foreigner. He wasn't raised with that whole idea of immutable superiority of the white
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