Posted on 06/02/2017 11:43:49 PM PDT by Helicondelta
It is beyond my power of discernment to identify the most over-the-top comment criticizing President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord. But this tweet by a Harvard professor named Joyce Chaplin is surely a contender:
The USA, created by int’l community in Treaty of Paris in 1783, betrays int’l community by withdrawing from #parisclimateagreement today.
Chaplin teaches American Studies. Yet, she appears not to know how America was created. Ted Cruz reminded her:
Just sad. Tenured chair at Harvard, doesn’t seem to know how USA was created. Not a treaty. Declaration+Revolutionary War+Constitution=USA.
He added:
Lefty academics @ my alma mater think USA was “created by int’l community.” No–USA created by force, the blood of patriots & We the People. Treaty of Paris simply memorialized that fact, of our total victory at Yorktown. Her claim is like saying a plastic globe created the earth.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Thank God for those few lawmakers on the Right who are willing to stand up to the foolish loudmouths on the left. Ted Cruz keeps calling ‘em out!!
Well done, Senator Cruz! Keep it up!!
Joyce E. Chaplin is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History
https://scholar.harvard.edu/joycechaplin/home
Ha! What a laugh.
She knows the history.
She just wants to control and impress upon young minds.
They know exactly what they are doing.
She’s not stupid. She’s dangerous.
I prefer Declaration=USA. Revolutionary War=Defense. Constitution=Government.
-PJ
That’s like saying that you were created by your birth certificate.
OMG:
Joyce E. Chaplin (PhD and MA Johns Hopkins, BA Northwestern) is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History. A former Fulbright Scholar, she has taught at five different universities on two continents and an island, and in a maritime studies program on the Atlantic Ocean. She is most interested in topics where humans and nature meet, including subjects in early American history, intellectual history, the history of science, and environmental history. An award-winning author, her major works include An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 (1993), Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 (2001), and The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (2006). She is also the editor of Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography: A Norton Critical Edition (2012). Her reviews and essays have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, and the Wall Street Journal. Professor Chaplin’s most recent book is the first history of around-the-world travel, Round about the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit (2012).
No wonder Harvard grads f the world up! How much does that “school” cost?
Impressive credentials but does she know anything about early American history?
That was exactly my take. Read it twice to make sure I didn’t miss it. I would so love to have a time machine where I could let people like this professor actually talk to the Founding Fathers - who would shred them in seconds.
she wrote “created” but she seems to mean “formally recognized.”
however, the thought still seems a bit off, since it seems to infer that the united states owes its existence to the largess of other countries instead of through its own efforts by way of a successful revolution against england.
a sovereign nation can come into being, but other countries still need to recognize it in order for the process to be entirely formalized. before the treaty of paris and other parallel treaties signed at the same time by united states’ allies, the existence of the united states had not been legally recognized by any countries, thus (i think) they were technically still british subjects until the treaty was signed.
(note: i am not a historian, so there is a considerable chance that i may have missed something.)
And for those that say America is not a Christian nation, I like to point to the title of the Treaty of Paris. The bold heading says “In the Name of the Most Holy & Undivided Trinity”.
Femisium occurs at the peak of every civilization and then comes the dark ages because so many important positions are populated by stupid people whose only claim to be in that position is their sex, not their achievement or wisdom.
One of her critics said her statement that one does not become a nation without international recognition was like declaring that someone was not born until a birth certificate was issued.
Actually she is of the ilk of leftist who would want life predicated on government approval.
France helped
largess -> largesse
Hmmm--seems to have worked for Obama ;)
yes
Yeah, France greatly helped us in those days when they still had a king. Revolutionary France was a pain in the @zz.
Same way with Russia just a century or so later. Strange, isn’t it?
This professor would be a good guest for Tucker Carlson to have on his show.
she has taught at five different universities...
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Seems she can’t hold a job.
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