Ok,Simeon_Strangelight,time to thrash out this low/high IQ thing once and for all
04-28-2019, 04:57 PM
Specific to Haiti, here’s a little high level background-
Era of Napoleon. Slave revolt. French lose, but not before capturing the rebel leader Toussaint and deporting him to France where he dies.
Dessalines takes over and leads the revolution to victory. The French army sets sail, but makes arrangements for their wounded to remain behind and recover from their injuries before returning to France via a long sea voyage. As soon as the main French army was no longer in sight, Dessalines broke his word and had all the wounded French soldiers chopped to pieces with machetes.
Dessalines then went on a race-based riot. Again, machetes were used and whites were hunted and chopped to pieces. Men were killed, and women were spared if they took a black husband. How do you think the French felt about this? Dessalines continued as the leader for a few years, ruling as a brute and enforcing his control with his roving bands of machete wielding thugs. Eventually they turned on him- and he himself was hacked to pieces and his skull split in half with a machete and his body mutilated and torn apart. It was all a very fitting ending for a man who today is hailed as the founding father of Haiti. After his death the various warring parties descended into civil war. So to answer your question- would a serious investment in social services have made a difference in Haiti’s development? Maybe- social services don’t generally lead to wealth creation or new businesses. If Haiti had gone down a path of economic development and economic empowerment for its common people then maybe today it would be better. But most likely any extra wealth would have been pissed away or stolen by whatever group held the most skull-splitting machetes.
This race purge in Haiti freaked out the Southern slave states in the US as they saw what could happen if their own slaves were to gain freedom. They were deathly afraid of a slave revolt and this is part of the reason they were so entrenched in their beliefs leading up to the 1860s.
Era of Napoleon. Slave revolt. French lose, but not before capturing the rebel leader Toussaint and deporting him to France where he dies.
Dessalines takes over and leads the revolution to victory. The French army sets sail, but makes arrangements for their wounded to remain behind and recover from their injuries before returning to France via a long sea voyage. As soon as the main French army was no longer in sight, Dessalines broke his word and had all the wounded French soldiers chopped to pieces with machetes.
Dessalines then went on a race-based riot. Again, machetes were used and whites were hunted and chopped to pieces. Men were killed, and women were spared if they took a black husband. How do you think the French felt about this? Dessalines continued as the leader for a few years, ruling as a brute and enforcing his control with his roving bands of machete wielding thugs. Eventually they turned on him- and he himself was hacked to pieces and his skull split in half with a machete and his body mutilated and torn apart. It was all a very fitting ending for a man who today is hailed as the founding father of Haiti. After his death the various warring parties descended into civil war. So to answer your question- would a serious investment in social services have made a difference in Haiti’s development? Maybe- social services don’t generally lead to wealth creation or new businesses. If Haiti had gone down a path of economic development and economic empowerment for its common people then maybe today it would be better. But most likely any extra wealth would have been pissed away or stolen by whatever group held the most skull-splitting machetes.
This race purge in Haiti freaked out the Southern slave states in the US as they saw what could happen if their own slaves were to gain freedom. They were deathly afraid of a slave revolt and this is part of the reason they were so entrenched in their beliefs leading up to the 1860s.