TIL About the Smoot-Hawley Act, Which was the 20% Across the Board Tariff That Deepened the Great Depression and Resulted in the Largest Senate Seat Loss in History - eviltoast
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TIL About the Smoot-Hawley Act, Which was the 20% Across the Board Tariff That Deepened the Great Depression and Resulted in the Largest Senate Seat Loss in History

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TIL About the Smoot-Hawley Act, Which was the 20% Across the Board Tariff That Deepened the Great Depression and Resulted in the Largest Senate Seat Loss in History

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  • Decoy321@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    91·
    2 months ago
    Japanese Internment

Two major Red Scares and a collapse in union membership

    Legitimate criticisms

    No they’re not. Those two things were caused by far greater international factors. Like, you know, the 2nd World War.

      • Decoy321@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        52·
        2 months ago

        My apologies, I guess I wasn’t clear enough. My point was that it’s unfair to blame those things as results of progressive policies.

        But hey, thanks for the gross mischaracterization of my perspective.

          • Decoy321@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            11·
            2 months ago

            Please allow me to clarify my perspective on this discussion.

            This commenter associated a bunch of effects with the progressive era.

            You then replied with a thoughtful response that questioned most of their points.

            But then you wrote

            Japanese Internment

Two major Red Scares and a collapse in union membership

            Legitimate criticisms.

            At this point, I read that as you acknowledging those two points as legitimate criticisms against the progressive era. This is what I disputed. I think those are unfair criticisms, as far as I understood the words you wrote.

            This is all I said. I’ve jumped to no other conclusions. I’ve said nothing against you or your character. I’ve made no other assumptions. I simply wrote a response based off the words you used.

            I see you’ve further clarified your perspective as well, and understand that we’re of the same perspective on the matter. You have no need to be so defensive anymore, my dude.

            Edit: the other commenter essentially proved that they were just baiting people into inflammatory discussion. They kept resorting to personal attacks and flip-flopped on their position solely to continue arguing. This behavior is not tolerated here. Please report such trolls in the future.