THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

QUAKERS MAKE ME SICK | 2008-01-15

Allow me one unsubtle and thoroughly unsophisticated comment:

Quakers make me sick.

You know the pink-complexioned face on Quaker Oats products?

The original Quaker Oats had a nasty old man with a stick chasing kids, obviously an image of Quakers that was familiar in the late ninteenth century. Due to "Friends" protests (like all self-righeous people they can't take a joke), the image was changed to the one we have now.

Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography contains many references to the hypocrisy of Quakers, since he lived in Philadelphia. Safely protected from hostile Indians by the Germanic settlers in the mountains, Quakers always refused any financial aid in defending against Indians by claiming pacifism, as Yankees claimed their subjugation of the South was just love of blacks.

Quakers here have always been fanatically anti-white.

But there were a lot of people in America known as Fighting Quakers, including the North Carolina ancestors of Richard Nixon. In fact, everywhere the Indians were a direct threat to them, the Quakers became Fighting Quakers.

There's more, and it gets worse.

Quakers make me sick

COMMENTS (10)

#1 Tim | 2008-01-15 20:33

"In fact, everywhere the Indians were a direct threat to them, the Quakers became Fighting Quakers."

I did not know Quakers ever fought anything!

Some of my ancestors ended up getting farm land in the South back in the day. They were in Boston but farm land was a good deal in south---you just had to fight Indians for it. Apparently a few of my Irish ancestors (from Northern Ireland)and believe it or not Scots(fresh from Scotland) and Scotch Irish (Northern Ireland) faught Indians TOGETHER for land. Then they had to fight to keep the Indians off the land etc..etc.

The Quakers came in and ALWAYS refused to fight to protect their land! ALWAYS. My Great Grandfather told me a story that some of them were going to put the Quakers in a position of fighting or dieing like every other White. But the Scots kept fighting for the Quakers in spite of them saying they would not defend themselves or their land. Apparently the Quakers were extremely irritating as well.

Many thought they should just let them fight or die. My ancestors (and some of the Scots Irish) apparently thought WE should shoot the Quakers for NOT fighting Indians. But the Scots could NOT bear the thought of Christian Whites getting killed even if they refused to fight! LOL. Those were the days! Imagine such a sight! Whites fighting for Whites NOT even worth fighting for---just because they were white! My how times have changed.

But I believe my ancestors and the Scotch Irish were correct in their thinking. Anyway, Fighting Irish Icons on Oatmeals Boxes would sell a whole better than Quakers.

#2 Pain | 2008-01-15 23:25

Bob-

Did you ever figure out why Nixon talked like he came from North Dakota? I always thought it was weird that he grew up out in the tulies of rural Southern California, but he talked like he grew up just south of the upper Midwest. He must have been beat up a lot in school.

#3 Pain | 2008-01-15 23:35

Tim-

We already have frosted Lucky Charms, they're magically delicious! I think the wee Leprechauns taste best. Are all Irishmen wee and green?

#4 Bob | 2008-01-16 10:22

Pain, which side of his mouth are you talking about?

Good wuestion.

I know someone who is expert on such accents./ I'll ask him.

#5 Bob | 2008-01-16 10:55

Tim, I don't know about small and green, but some of the Southies I talked to in bars got so drunk they started to look double.

#6 Simmons | 2008-01-16 11:25

We cannot expect miracles of relevation everyday so we get standard conservative bithching fare occasionally. I read the Bob post and the comments and I instinctually reached for my checkbook "Blacks have low IQs, Jews hate whitey, send money", blah blah blah.

I can back my critique up when it comes to Quakers and Puritans and other such numbnuts, I was born and raised in No. Illinois and half my family were literally descendants of Torie loyalists who fled to Canada. I know the mindset well especially that of my maternal grandfather who fell back into the touched by god nonsense in the last years of his life.

The moralists of PC live off of simple platitudes which cannot survive even the most cursory interogation Quakers included. My grandfather fell into a fit of rage when I asked how could the races be equal if one noted that there were races (plural). So he inflicted upon me and grandmother a childish fit so I left with his copy of Dixon's (The Leopard Spot) and went home and waited for him to die off so as to preserve family harmony.

We have no need for family harmony so these adolescant martyrs to "Truth" need not concern us. I asked a Paul hater why his detractors just don't come out and ask of RP if he is a "Racial Loyalist" and be done with this super secret nonsense of detecting thought crime. More fits of rage followed, musn't ask questions like that I guess. So I will, starting with Bob, "Are you a racial loyalist?"

#7 Pain | 2008-01-17 01:02

Simmons-

I've noticed those fits of rage, too. They mean the rager is scared and is trying to scare you off. I always thought fear of thinking was weird. I can understand being afraid of someone threatening to kill you or fire you, even, but why fear thinking something? How would you know it was wrong to think about if you never thought about it?

#8 richard | 2008-01-17 08:12

I wouldn't disagree with Bob's comments on Quakers, but he's wrong about the original Quaker Oats logo. It actually looked like this -

http://www.crystalradio.net/oatbox/frontwithtop1.jpg

#9 Bob | 2008-01-17 11:49

richard, it's good to see someone can do his own googling, but I stand by my story. I saw it in a history of adverstising, and there was a discussion of it there.

#10 mderpelding | 2008-01-18 20:39

Modern corrections philosophy is based on the Quaker/Puritan ideal of caging men like animals in order to "correct" them.

Note the irony.

Only a moral idiot would ascribe to the belief that putting men in cages like animals would somehow make them less like animals.