The problem of SJWs

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You don't own culture. I hate this BS.

If people are copying or dipping into your culture in a positive way, then that means your culture is successful and is spreading.

Ah, SJW's. Also known as Communists. And we all know how well that turned out...

Agrippa Hull (1759-1848)
Hull was born free in Massachusetts. He enlisted with the Colonial Army in 1777, spending nearly five years as aide to Polish engineer Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a key figure in the young nation's defense. Hull also worked with the army's medical corps, learning to perform basic operations. After the war, Hull moved to Stockbridge where he used his savings to become the largest black land owner.

Crispus Attucks (1723?-1770)
Attucks was born into slavery in Massachusetts then escaped to a career at sea. He spent most of his life working on whaling vessels, but was in Boston on one famous day: the Boston Massacre. March 5, 1770, Attucks led a group of men with clubs to the Old State House to protest British occupation. Soldiers responded to the clubs with gun-shots. Six Colonists were wounded and five died, including Attucks, making him the first person to die in the American Revolution.

Prince Hall (1735?-1807)
Emancipated in 1765, Hall was a politically active abolitionist in Boston. He aggressively sought to end slavery in Massachusetts. He believed the Freemasons' ideals of equality and liberty were the best path to freedom for black men. Working for years against Masonic prejudice in America and Britain, Hall eventually founded African Lodge #1 in 1784, providing a union for free black men across the new colonies. In his lifetime, however, he never received acceptance from white Masons.

Elizabeth Freeman (1742?-1829)
Freeman was among the first slaves to file and win a “freedom suit" in Massachusetts, proving that slavery was illegal according to their constitution. Although the state did not officially make slavery illegal until the Emancipation Proclamation, her case marked the informal end of slavery in Massachusetts and became precedent in many cases to follow. "I heard that paper read yesterday, that says, all men are created equal," she said to young abolitionist lawyer Theodore Sedgewick, “and that every man has a right to freedom. I'm not a dumb critter; won't the law give me my freedom?"

Paul Cuffee (1759-1817)
Cuffee's father was a former slave released by his Quaker owner for moral reasons. He worked as a carpenter, farmer and fisherman until he could afford his own farm near Dartmouth, Massachusetts, where he raised ten children. Paul was the seventh. Paul taught himself to read and write. He learned about ships and sailing by talking with every sailor he encountered. He began working on whaling and cargo ships at the age of 16. In 1780, he refused to pay taxes because he was not allowed to vote. “Taxation without representation" was a fundamental complaint of the American Revolution. His petition to Bristol County was denied, but it led to legislation in 1783 allowing all free male citizens to vote.

Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)
Son of a free African-American woman and a fugitive slave, Banneker became an important self-taught astronomer and scientist. His almanacs of the stars and tides were sold widely. Modeled after a pocket watch, his wooden clock kept time until after his death. He corresponded regularly with Thomas Jefferson regarding racial equality. He took part in the boundary survey which designated the land for the District of Columbia. Parks, schools and streets have been named after him in Maryland and beyond. His numerous accomplishments have blossomed into a considerable mythology.

In the American Revolution, gaining freedom was the strongest motive for black slaves who joined the Patriot or British armies. The free black may have been drafted or enlisted at his own volition. Nash says that they enlisted more often than did whites.

Additional motives for those who joined the rebel American forces could have been a desire for adventure, belief in the goals of the Revolution, or the possibility of receiving a bounty. Bounties were both monetary payments and the chance to be given freedom; they were promised to those who joined either side of the war. Free blacks in the North and South fought on both sides of the Revolution; slaves were recruited to weaken those masters who supported the opposing cause.

Most blacks fought on the patriot side; recent research concludes there were about 9000 black Patriot soldiers, counting the Continental Army and Navy, and state militia units, as well as privateers, wagoneers in the Army, servants to officers, and spies.[2] Ray Raphael notes that while thousands joined the Loyalists, many more, free and slave, sided with the Patriots. As between 200,000 and 250,000 soldiers and militia served during the revolution in total, that would mean black soldiers made up approximately four percent of the Patriots' numbers. Of the 9,000 black soldiers, 5,000 were combat troops. Notably, the average length of time in service for an African American soldier during the war was four and a half years (due to many serving for the whole eight-year duration), which was eight times longer than the average period for white soldiers. Meaning that while they were only four percent of the manpower base, they comprised around a quarter of the Patriots' strength in terms of man-hours.

Prior to the revolution, many free African Americans supported the anti-British cause, most famously Crispus Attucks, believed to be the first person killed at the Boston Massacre. At the time of the American Revolution, some blacks had already enlisted as Minutemen. Both free and enslaved Africans had served in private militias, especially in the North, defending their villages against attacks by Native Americans. In March 1775, the Continental Congress assigned units of the Massachusetts militia as Minutemen. They were under orders to become activated if the British troops in Boston took the offensive. Peter Salem, who had been freed by his owner to join the Framingham militia, was one of the blacks in the military. He served for seven years. In the Revolutionary War, slave owners often let their slaves enlist in the war with promises of freedom, but many were put back into slavery after the conclusion of the war.

In April 1775, at Lexington and Concord, blacks responded to the call and fought with Patriot forces. Prince Estabrook was wounded some time during the fighting on 19 April, probably at Lexington. The Battle of Bunker Hill also had African-American soldiers fighting along with white Patriots, such as Peter Salem; Salem Poor, Barzillai Lew, Blaney Grusha,[citation needed] Titus Coburn, Alexander Ames, Cato Howe, and Seymour Burr. Many African Americans, both enslaved and free, wanted to join with the Patriots. They believed that they would achieve freedom or expand their civil rights. In addition to the role of soldier, blacks also served as guides, messengers, and spies.

Because of manpower shortages at sea, both the Continental Navy and Royal Navy signed African Americans into their navies. Even southern colonies, which worried about putting guns into the hands of slaves for the army, had no qualms about using blacks to pilot vessels and to handle the ammunition on ships.

In state navies, some blacks served as pilots: South Carolina had significant numbers of black pilots.

Some African Americans had been captured from the Royal Navy and used by the Patriots on their vessels.

There were many in the war

As a response to expressions of fear posed by armed blacks, in December 1775, Washington wrote a letter to Colonel Henry Lee III, stating that success in the war would come to whatever side could arm the blacks the fastest. Washington issued orders to the recruiters to reenlist the free blacks who had already served in the army; he worried that some of these soldiers might cross over to the British side.

Congress in 1776 agreed with Washington and authorized re-enlistment of free blacks who had already served. Patriots in South Carolina and Georgia resisted enlisting slaves as armed soldiers. African Americans from northern units were generally assigned to fight in southern battles. In some Southern states, southern black slaves substituted for their masters in Patriot service.

In 1778, Rhode Island was having trouble recruiting enough white men to meet the troop quotas set by the Continental Congress. The Rhode Island Assembly decided to adopt a suggestion by General Varnum and enlist slaves in 1st Rhode Island Regiment. Varnum had raised the idea in a letter to George Washington, who forwarded the letter to the governor of Rhode Island. On February 14, 1778, the Rhode Island Assembly voted to allow the enlistment of "every able-bodied negro, mulatto, or Indian man slave" who chose to do so, and that "every slave so enlisting shall, upon his passing muster before Colonel Christopher Greene, be immediately discharged from the service of his master or mistress, and be absolutely free...." The owners of slaves who enlisted were to be compensated by the Assembly in an amount equal to the market value of the slave.

A total of 88 slaves enlisted in the regiment over the next four months, joined by some free blacks. The regiment eventually totaled about 225 men; probably fewer than 140 were blacks. The 1st Rhode Island Regiment became the only regiment of the Continental Army to have segregated companies of black soldiers.

Under Colonel Greene, the regiment fought in the Battle of Rhode Island in August 1778. The regiment played a fairly minor but still-praised role in the battle. Its casualties were three killed, nine wounded, and eleven missing.

Like most of the Continental Army, the regiment saw little action over the next few years, as the focus of the war had shifted to the south. In 1781, Greene and several of his black soldiers were killed in a skirmish with Loyalists. Greene's body was mutilated by the Loyalists, apparently as punishment for having led black soldiers against them.

While not American-based, a French regiment of colored troops (the Chasseurs-Volontaires de Saint-Domingue) under the command of Comte d'Estaing and one of the largest combatant contingent of color in the American Revolutionary War, fought on behalf of the Patriots in the Siege of Savannah.

There's a saying, "Get Woke, Go Broke." That's what's happening right now to Evergreen State University. You remember Evergreen State from a year or two ago, when SJW's hounded a biology professor off campus (Weinstein?) and wanted white people to stay away from campus. Well, now lots of people are getting laid off because student enrollment is plummeting.

Evergreen State cutting dozens of faculty, staff positions

Just weeks after it announced nearly $6 million in budget cuts to cope with rapidly declining enrollment, Evergreen State College has cut dozens of faculty and staff positions, with up to 20 additional layoffs possible.

In a memo sent to employees on Tuesday, the school said it has trimmed the curriculum to eliminate 24 faculty lines, partly by not renewing the contracts of adjunct professors, in addition to eliminating 19 vacant staff positions.

Evergreen State is expecting new-student applications to decrease by as much as 20% this year, which many attribute to the student-led riots that plunged the campus into anarchy last year.

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10942

Congratulations Evergreen SJW's you created more victims. Those victims are not victims of microaggressions or victims due to their race, sex, sexual or gender identity, they are victims of you.

I have seen no one on the left holding up Evergreen as a success. No one pushes The Evergreen Model for future activism.

You two lay on the condescension a bit too thick, and it distorts your perceptions. Acting like we're a bunch of morons stifles debate.

OTOH, I haven't seen anyone having a deep discussion of the factors that led to the events there. I haven't looked for it specifically, but that discussion hasn't trended on the left. Getting to the roots of that will necessitate some uncomfortable introspection.

It's easier and more fun to mock the Intellectual Dark Web as a group, for many people. I don't see them as monolithic, and I appreciate them as individuals even as I worry about the influence of their zealots. Bret did not deserve that s**t. Although, as with JP, he got persecuted into wealth, fame, and influence.

They deserve condisation because they did not help thier anti racism cause, they only got people fired some of who are working class and some of them have probably been victims of racism. They may or may not be morons but in this case thier actions were moronic.

Let's all stop playing No True Scotsman, and deal with the wackos giving a bad name to our chosen labels. Each of us and every alignment.

No, it's not about "us all". People doing moronic things just need to stop doing them, and that's it.

Well, there you go, then. Problem solved.