bsmall2Independent thinkers 12 years ago:
> David Starr Jordan, the president of Stanford University, declared that Filipinos had done no more than rebel against “alien control” and that therefore “it was our fault and ours alone that this war began.” The revered Harvard professor William James said that Americans were guilty of “murdering another culture” and concluded one of his speeches by declaring, “God damn the U.S. for its vile conduct in the Philippines!”
https://libcom.org/article/us-conquest-philippines-1898-1902
#DavidStarrJordan #StanfordUniversity #WilliamJames #HarvardUniversity
> David Starr Jordan, the president of Stanford University, declared that Filipinos had done no more than rebel against “alien control” and that therefore “it was our fault and ours alone that this war began.” The revered Harvard professor William James said that Americans were guilty of “murdering another culture” and concluded one of his speeches by declaring, “God damn the U.S. for its vile conduct in the Philippines!”
https://libcom.org/article/us-conquest-philippines-1898-1902
#DavidStarrJordan #StanfordUniversity #WilliamJames #HarvardUniversity
Christopher Stewart