Would The Founding Fathers Be Banned From Social Media?

Tue, 07/02/2019 - 20:20

Authored by Onar Am via LibertyNation.com

Social media companies have gone too far in their censorship...

Many people find it challenging to comprehend how oppressive social
media companies such as Facebook and Twitter have become toward people
who do not share their far-left progressive ideology. One way to
understand this is through a thought experiment: Were the Founding
Fathers alive today, would they have been allowed on these platforms?
The answer is likely no.

Slavery And Immigration

Some Founding Fathers from the southern states owned slaves, but let us
put that aside for a moment and consider only their opinions. Most of
them, Thomas Jefferson included, expressed a moral aversion to the
practice of slavery, driven by their Christian faith.

But at the same time, there was a near unanimous agreement of senators
and representatives of the first Congress that immigration should be
limited to "free white persons of good character" as espoused in the
Naturalization Act of 1790, which stayed in effect until after the Civil
War.

Today anyone who expresses such an opinion, at the time held by most
citizens and statesmen, quickly will be branded as a "white supremacist"
and banned from social media.

By modern standards, that view sounds blatantly racist but it needs to
be understood in context. There were no airplanes or internet back then,
and global trade had latencies of years. The world they knew was
fiercely tribal.

The newly formed United States was still at war with native Indian
tribes, and American trade ships were plundered regularly by Islamic
pirates from the Barbary states in North Africa. The explorers that went
to Africa found no written languages, two-story buildings, roads,
wheels, or machinery. They did, however, find hostile tribes who either
tried to kill them or to sell them slaves from other tribes.

In this historically hostile world, where all cultures were at war, and
tribal allegiances were paramount, from where would it be natural to
allow immigration? Your ancestral lands, of course. The presumption is
that people who share your culture, religion, civilizational values, and
ethnicity are more likely to be compatible than people from hostile
countries.

Notice, however, that not all white people could immigrate to America.
Only free persons of good character. "Free" and "good character" meant
they were not slaves or convicts, were financially independent, did not
have a criminal record, and shared the ideals of the Constitution. They
had to sustain themselves and abide by the laws for two years before
they could apply for citizenship.

Multiculturalism

Surprisingly, the same troubles that faced the young nation 230 years
ago also plague modern America. While race is no longer a requirement,
modern conservatives still want immigrants to be "free persons of good
character." The problem is that the world outside the West is still
fiercely tribal and racially conscious. Most cultures today reject the
ideals of liberty and prefer socialism, corruption, and ethnic
kleptocracy. (and I would argue religious servitude in the case of islam).

Insisting on immigrants who sustain themselves and don't support
socialism would eliminate billions of people from qualifying to enter
the United States, most of them from non-Western countries.

Even though hundreds of millions of Africans, South Americans, and
Asians would qualify entry based on self-reliance, skills, and good
character, leftists deem such a policy to be racist because it favors
immigration from Europe and East Asia. Therefore, they insist that any
requirement must be abolished. Accept open borders and the destruction
of liberty, or else you are racist.

Time To Rethink

It is commendable that the leading social media corporations want to
combat bigotry, but we should consider that without the philosophy and
culture of the Founding Fathers, slavery would still exist, not only in
America but also in the rest of the world. It was white Christians who
worked to abolish slavery and championed universal individual rights
independent of race and religion.

However, it is ironic - and disturbing - that the very same people who
made Facebook and Twitter possible now would be censored by these companies.

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