re: #91 Shiplord Kirel

Derpitude is becoming an exact anti-science, with its own laws, theories, and postulates, all backed by nothing but hot air and ignorance.

At that time, a right-wing extremist would have been someone who supported the divine right of kings, a privileged aristocracy, a revival of serfdom where it had been abolished, the established church, and strict controls on speech and the press.

qft

a very short history of american conservatism:

1776 - royalists who believed that any form of democracy, even that restricted to rich white males, was unworkable and against the will of god

1830s - against the abolishment of the property qualification for voting. believed that the irish were too culturally different from other immigrants to american to ever assimilate into american society

1850s - against restrictions on chattel slavery

1880s - against the idea of working people forming organizations for collective bargaining, against the movement to limit work weeks to 10 hrs/day monday through saturday, against restrictions on child labor

1910s - against national voting rights for women, in favor of segregation as beneficial to “both races”