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Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 07:24:53 JST Fish of Rage
@ageha @anemone @arcana @mischievoustomato @jeffcliff we were taught that catholics were pagans and duped by satan and not really christians but it never really escalated. there has always been a distrust of catholicism in the USA by protestants but just generally not violent.

I have done some research on historic hatred of mormons in the USA and it seems to have been driven by a few historic things:

1. success and in-group bias caused great resentment in many places
2. legitimate disgust caused by polygamy
3. rejection of mormonism's placement of self as the only correct branch of christianity while incorporating smith as a modern prophet and overtly heretical views
3. secret rituals (this was tied to a general new-world distrust of secret societies and things like freemasonry)
4. strongholds created by the mormons in the west fleeing persecution were eventually encroached by others with the expansion of the railroad system

mormons got very powerful for a while and the combination of all this was disturbing even to non-observant people.

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  Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 07:29:37 JST Fish of Rage
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  @ageha @anemone @arcana @jeffcliff @mischievoustomato 1 and 5 are protestant problems but I think 2 - 4 are completely understandable because mormons were aggressive, weird, and growing rapidly
  
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  Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 22:52:26 JST Fish of Rage
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  @whoopsie @anemone @arcana @mischievoustomato @jeffcliff @ageha polygynous systems are almost inherently repressive for women and in general are an indicator of sex and wealth inequality.
  
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  whoopsie (whoopsie@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 22:52:27 JST whoopsie
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  @sun @anemone @arcana @mischievoustomato @jeffcliff @ageha Oh wow, if there was legitimate disgust caused by polygamy, that means there was polygamy where not all involved gave valid consent. A new horror about the US emerges every day, it seems.
  
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  Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 22:56:16 JST Fish of Rage
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  @whoopsie @anemone @arcana @mischievoustomato @jeffcliff @ageha so the real reason is that in the Western Hemisphere among European peoples polygyny was usually just considered gross and maybe something that gross foreign people like native americans or muslims did
  
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  whoopsie (whoopsie@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 22:56:17 JST whoopsie
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  @sun @anemone @arcana @mischievoustomato @jeffcliff @ageha Indirect oppression counts.
  I was just never well informed, where it cropped up in media it was always treated like a joke. Also had no reason to look deeper.
  So thx for raising that warning flag, will be cautious if it comes up.
  
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  whoopsie (whoopsie@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 22:57:43 JST whoopsie
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  @sun @anemone @arcana @mischievoustomato @jeffcliff @ageha Btw. now that i think of it, it always smelled funny: only one man, multiple wives? Strange coincidence, right?
  
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  Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 22:58:27 JST Fish of Rage
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  @whoopsie @anemone @arcana @mischievoustomato @jeffcliff @ageha I guess there are some indigenous peoples in some areas that practice sharing husbands but I don't know anything about them. I have to believe that is driven by different motivations than multiple wives.
  
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