The French and Haitian Revolutions are one of the most fascinating and momentous events in what passes for western history, and yet the way liberals treat these subjects is just downright atrocious

While the horrific counter-revolution of 1776 is glorified, the French Revolution is treated like some ugly step-child they’d rather keep locked in the basement

I’m sick of it, I just want to learn about a cool-ass revolution without power-worshipping liberals throwing a conniption

  • Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    She was not even a little bit a victim. She was literally the political leader of the faction of government opposing the King from the Right. She was the French Revolutionary equivalent of the Black Hundreds.