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Why do Americans idolise Teddy Roosevelt? (hexbear.net)

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I know nothing about him other than stuffed bears and and an elk is named after him.

Robotnik ass looking nerd.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Classic Teddy:

In 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt concluded his Lincoln Day Dinner speech with the proclamation that “race purity must be maintained.”13 By 1906 he blatantly equated the falling birth rate among native-born whites with the impending threat of “race suicide.” In his State of the Union message that year Roosevelt admonished the well-born white women who engaged in “willful sterility—the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race suicide.”14 These comments were made during a period of accelerating racist ideology and of great waves of race riots and lynchings on the domestic scene. Moreover, President Roosevelt himself was attempting to muster support for the U.S. seizure of the Philippines, the country’s most recent imperialist venture.

From Angela Davis's Women, Race, and Class

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

He was also a social Darwinist, apparently.