In almost every sense, modern progressives mean that anything they deem good is progressive while all else is not just wrong but evil.
Deeply conservative men such as Harvard University's Frederick Jackson Turner embraced the progressive vision of history.
In Turner's progressive history, Europe serves as the thesis, Indians as antithesis, and Americans as the synthesis.
Modern neoconservatives such as Francis Fukyama have embraced the progressive vision of history just as readily as had Marx and Turner.
Even the most objective view of the progressive vision of history should give any intelligent and humane person pause.
As it happened, America's first active progressives emerged from the annual Lake Mohonk conferences, sponsored by the "Friends of the Indian." These do-gooders-almost all the children of evangelical ministers and almost none of whom had ever met an actual American Indian-believed in true progressive fashion that they knew how to make the Indians into "Humans." Their stated goal was horrific: "To kill the Indian to save the man." Such friends one should avoid! They supported the reservation policies, the often forced Christianization of Indians, and the willful theft of Indian children from their biological parents.
The progressives did not just target American Indians though.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-bigotry-inherent-in-american-progressivism/
Deeply conservative men such as Harvard University's Frederick Jackson Turner embraced the progressive vision of history.
In Turner's progressive history, Europe serves as the thesis, Indians as antithesis, and Americans as the synthesis.
Modern neoconservatives such as Francis Fukyama have embraced the progressive vision of history just as readily as had Marx and Turner.
Even the most objective view of the progressive vision of history should give any intelligent and humane person pause.
As it happened, America's first active progressives emerged from the annual Lake Mohonk conferences, sponsored by the "Friends of the Indian." These do-gooders-almost all the children of evangelical ministers and almost none of whom had ever met an actual American Indian-believed in true progressive fashion that they knew how to make the Indians into "Humans." Their stated goal was horrific: "To kill the Indian to save the man." Such friends one should avoid! They supported the reservation policies, the often forced Christianization of Indians, and the willful theft of Indian children from their biological parents.
The progressives did not just target American Indians though.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-bigotry-inherent-in-american-progressivism/
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