Comments by "Sam Aronow" (@SamAronow) on "Incredible These Things Used to Be Illegal in America" video.

  1. “Favorite” is a misinterpretation. “Chosenness” is just a contract with God to fulfill certain ritual obligations, whereas everyone else just has to follow 7 basic moral laws (assuming God doesn’t have other contracts with other groups, which isn’t to be taken for granted). All of which is to say a legal argument could be made by these fundamentalist groups that they’re not allowed to dance but other people are. Which of course defeats the justification for a civil ban on dancing, but that’s ancillary to an ecclesiastical argument.
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  2. You know that’s only Massachusetts, right? The US has very diverse origins, all with their own unique political cultures that have contributed to the whole; from Jamestown to New Amsterdam to Alta California.
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  3.  @tensemurm5924 The English Civil War happened after the founding of Massachusetts. It’s very frustrating every time I see British commenters equate the US with Puritanism as if that never happened there (and implicitly conflating the very northern 17th century Puritans with the mostly Southern, 20th century Fundamentalist movement when the two cultures are directly opposed).
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  4. Who can forget the song inspired by the time Kenny Loggins was kidnapped by Jimmy Buffett and had to be rescued by Michael McDonald and James Ingram?
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  5. God I miss Drunk History.
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