re: #35 avanti

We do have to address the reality that WWI progressives are very different from today’s progressives. Many, if not most of them, were quite racist and were strongly in favor of eugenics in openly racist ways. That’s not to say that the other side is somehow pristine. Racism at that time was a commonplace reality that very few rejected. Beck, though, loves using this as a hammer to slam anything that questions his bizarre little world of libertarian conspiracism. It’s a familiar trope that is effective among those who don’t know the whole history