Nostr notes by Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

I live in a town that had one of the only interracial communes ...

2026-02-27T00:02:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…6zma
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I live in a town that had one of the only interracial communes before the Civil War, a center of Garrisonian abolition, a major stop on the Underground Railroad, and the home of some noted Black organizers and speakers. Not everyone needs to be absolved. The demand that everyone be considered equally guilty is just designed to ease the feelings of the people who really are guilty, not in the past but now.

Poor whites in the South turned out to defend slavery then, and ...

2026-02-26T23:06:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…kdst
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Poor whites in the South turned out to defend slavery then, and the south is exporting fascism to the rest of the US now -- with decisions that are being made by people who were elected with their support.

I see no reason to forgive and forget. Historical memory is non-negotiable: people living there are going to have to get used to hearing that insofar as they keep that culture (which they are) they are bad people descended from other bad people.

This is historical revisionism and I don't find it convincing ...

2026-02-26T22:09:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…vxxd
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This is historical revisionism and I don't find it convincing at all. There was a whole civil war fought over slavery and yes, it was based in the South.

Civil war animus is a good thing -- I would have assumed ...

2026-02-26T21:55:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…a8gr
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Civil war animus is a good thing -- I would have assumed you'd agree, given your username. It's not simply "assigning blame to folks who live somewhere according to birth lottery": there are distinct regional subcultures that still follow historical lines

Periodic self-repetition: I'm extremely tired of people ...

2026-02-26T20:08:34Z

Periodic self-repetition: I'm extremely tired of people saying "you can't say bad things about [US] red states because good people live there too."

When Hitler was coming to power, did people say "You can't say bad things about Nazi Germany because Jews live there too?"

After the war, did they say "You can't say anything bad about the German people because a few people opposed the Holocaust?"

No.

In a sense, what you refer to as a kind of perquisitive estate ...

2025-11-18T14:03:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…xym3
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In a sense, what you refer to as a kind of perquisitive estate seems to me to be like a social class, the class of retrospective good-choice-makers whose good choices mark them out as getting whatever society can give, and expecting what society can give them to be good.

These good choices are to some degree being born to some degree of wealth, but also work and education. So this is in part a eugenics-formed class, correct?