Re: Re.: On Loving Oliver was Re: Jagger/Richards and Greenway on The English Revolution

[Julio Pino <jpino@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brother Brady:what made Cromwell special was not the body count, which
pales in comparison to some of the other genocidal maniacs you allude to.
It's that Cromwell's perception of the Irish as literally savages played a
very important role in how the British subsequently treated Native
Americans, the Hottentots of South Africa, Hindus et al.Cf. George
Frederickson, "White Supremacy" (Oxford: 1981)chapter one, "Settlement and
Subjugation" on how Cromwell's conquest of the Irish formed a mental, if
not material, springboard for institutionalized racism in both the USA and SA.
Comradely
Julio Cesar
>Despite my heritage and lasting loathing,
>Oliver Cromwell's atrocity record was nothing special
>--in the context of genocidal maniacs.
>