HISTORY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Jingoism, Irish Parliamentary Party, Blood Transfusion
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Presented empire as a kind of educational project. A lot of times untrue for example india gets poorer. Plenty of those that presented empire as a good thing did not support his idea of individual equality. Liberal imperialism justify denial of rights, separate court systems. Different kinds of imperialism, even within the nicest kind there are still languages of inequality and assumptions about superiority. It was aimed at some folk coming in from eastern europe who were jews. Alien act describes them as a threat because they are poor, and biologically different because of ethnicity and poverty. Language of control through biological knowledge or justifying social arrangements based on biology other than politics etc. Democracy was unthinkable because it would give more power to people that were unfit. Language of national and imperial fitness mostly a way people in power or superiority thought about it. Biological health of the nation and the nation"s children was a source of constant worry.
