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Associate them with communists - a great anti-labor tradition in the US.
Some things never change - just the excuses.
Maybe this is why I have always associate racists with red-baiters and people who try to use association as guilt.
Princeton Students Are Right: Woodrow Wilson Was Way Worse Than You Think
Saturday, 12 December 2015 00:00
By Harvey Wasserman, Truthout | Op-Ed
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At the core of his foul legacy is the fact that he dragged the United States into a hated world war based on a monstrous lie, and that he used that war as cover to illegally shatter the United States' democratic Socialist Party while permanently shredding the US Constitution.
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In 1916, he ran for re-election as a "peace candidate." Then he opened fire. Wilson used war as an excuse to break the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). He had broken new ground by reaching out to the conservative American Federation of Labor.
But AFL President Samuel Gompers wanted to be rid of Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist movement and the radical Industrial Workers of the World. Debs at the time was the United States' most beloved popular leader. Thousands came out to hear him wherever he spoke. He got nearly a million votes for president in 1912. Most Americans assumed we would someday have a Socialist president.
Wilson arrested Debs and countless others for demanding peace. His postwar "Red Scare" saw Socialist Party offices burned, organizers assaulted and jailed, and IWW activists murdered outright. Above all, Wilson violently removed the Socialist alternative from mainstream US discourse, a crime for which we all still pay dearly.
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Meanwhile, Wilson's League of Nations was an instrument of imperial conquest. It was meant to make the world safe for white supremacy, not democracy...
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Saturday, 12 December 2015 00:00
By Harvey Wasserman, Truthout | Op-Ed
...
At the core of his foul legacy is the fact that he dragged the United States into a hated world war based on a monstrous lie, and that he used that war as cover to illegally shatter the United States' democratic Socialist Party while permanently shredding the US Constitution.
...
In 1916, he ran for re-election as a "peace candidate." Then he opened fire. Wilson used war as an excuse to break the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). He had broken new ground by reaching out to the conservative American Federation of Labor.
But AFL President Samuel Gompers wanted to be rid of Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist movement and the radical Industrial Workers of the World. Debs at the time was the United States' most beloved popular leader. Thousands came out to hear him wherever he spoke. He got nearly a million votes for president in 1912. Most Americans assumed we would someday have a Socialist president.
Wilson arrested Debs and countless others for demanding peace. His postwar "Red Scare" saw Socialist Party offices burned, organizers assaulted and jailed, and IWW activists murdered outright. Above all, Wilson violently removed the Socialist alternative from mainstream US discourse, a crime for which we all still pay dearly.
...
Meanwhile, Wilson's League of Nations was an instrument of imperial conquest. It was meant to make the world safe for white supremacy, not democracy...
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/33978-princeton-students-are-right-woodrow-wilson-was-way-worse-than-you-think
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