05-04-2019, 05:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-04-2019, 05:10 PM by Eric the Green.)
(05-03-2019, 01:00 AM)TheNomad Wrote: When is bigotry and racism or hatred and tribalism happening most in American civilization according to past Turnings?
In what Turning (of the four laid out by S&H) are these things happening the most?
Why does it seem that America always descends into factions during certain Turnings? The idea of building walls and "grouping up" seems to make sense to many while in that period. Folks are more willing to be against others and have no desire to "meld" with neighbors.
When this is happening, is it a peak idea we can look at as to WHEN certain Turnings are happening?
Such as:
Where inside the Turning we are. Beginning? Middle? End? Does it correlate directly to the Turning? When these things are at the societal zenith, we might be right in the Middle. Or, if we see it happening, the Beginning. Or, if it is getting resolved, the End?
I'd say it is strongest from third turnings to early 1st turnings, with some kind of climax in 4th turnings.
We are certainly experiencing it now, in the middle of a 4th turning. Racism received a major correction in the sixties, but the backlash and southern strategy has grown as a reaction and retrenchment to this, and now has been stoked for a rebirth by Trump and his fear-mongering about immigrants.
Racism was strong in the mid-1920s in the late 3rd turning, with the revival of the KKK and promotion of eugenics in the 1920s and 1930s, which was eagerly taken up by the Nazis in the fourth turning, which presented virulent racism as a threat to the United States and other liberal-democratic countries in World War II. Also, anti-immigration sentiment was strong in the 1920s and 30s and led to the anti-immigrant law of 1924.
The American Party or Know-Nothings sought to keep America white and protestant, for fear the American traditions would be ruined, in the 1850s-- a fourth turning as I see it. In Europe in the same decade, scientific racism received great boosts from the theories of Darwin, Spencer and Gobineau. This helped to stoke the nationalist wars by Bismarck, Cavour, and Jefferson Davis in the 1860s 4th turning. Reconstruction saw the birth of the KKK in the reunited states in the late 1860s, early 1st turning. The Chinese exclusion act of 1882 came late in a 1st turning.
The alien act was a major component of the post-revolution era, early 1st turning.