Woodrow Wilson: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
(update links) |
m (→top: clean up, replaced: Big Lipped Alligator Moment → Non Sequitur Scene) |
||
| Line 50: | Line 50: | ||
* [[Sucky School]]: He was responsible for the creation of [[American Educational System|a government school system]] with the intent to create factory workers, rather than an educated populace. This trope was the result. |
* [[Sucky School]]: He was responsible for the creation of [[American Educational System|a government school system]] with the intent to create factory workers, rather than an educated populace. This trope was the result. |
||
* [[Values Dissonance]]: He segregated the government racially. When blacks complained about it, he said "If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it." He was also unabashedly anti-immigrant and criticized Irish immigrants harshly. |
* [[Values Dissonance]]: He segregated the government racially. When blacks complained about it, he said "If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it." He was also unabashedly anti-immigrant and criticized Irish immigrants harshly. |
||
** He also launched the Espionage Act of 1918, which punished "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" against the US government that served the purpose of arresting those against [[World War I]]. This order was |
** He also launched the Espionage Act of 1918, which punished "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" against the US government that served the purpose of arresting those against [[World War I]]. This order was ironic—he spent his academic days complaining about the US government and the constitution and wished to persecute as president those who preached the same things he once did. |
||
** Some argue that he was highly racist even ''for his own time.'' Of course, he was born during [[The American Civil War]] in Virginia, not too far from the Confederate capital at Richmond, so...what do you expect? |
** Some argue that he was highly racist even ''for his own time.'' Of course, he was born during [[The American Civil War]] in Virginia, not too far from the Confederate capital at Richmond, so...what do you expect? |
||
*** Well, when you set desegregation back a good few decades. In the case of the Navy, he barred them from a service that was at times more than 1/3 African American going back to the revolutionary war. |
*** Well, when you set desegregation back a good few decades. In the case of the Navy, he barred them from a service that was at times more than 1/3 African American going back to the revolutionary war. |
||
| Line 64: | Line 64: | ||
* He appears several times and dies prematurely in 1915 in ''[[Swarm On the Somme]]''. |
* He appears several times and dies prematurely in 1915 in ''[[Swarm On the Somme]]''. |
||
* Gus Dewar, [[Loads and Loads of Characters|one of the main characters]] in Ken Follett's [[Doorstopper]] novel ''Fall of Giants'', works for President Wilson. |
* Gus Dewar, [[Loads and Loads of Characters|one of the main characters]] in Ken Follett's [[Doorstopper]] novel ''Fall of Giants'', works for President Wilson. |
||
* He (or rather, his ghost) shows up in [[The Venture Brothers]] to [[ |
* He (or rather, his ghost) shows up in [[The Venture Brothers]] to [[Non Sequitur Scene|briefly]] play a celebrity perfume guessing game with 21. |
||
* ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'' contains a quote from him on an intertitle. |
* ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'' contains a quote from him on an intertitle. |
||
{{reflist}} |
{{reflist}} |
||
[[Category:The Presidents]] |
[[Category:The Presidents]] |
||
[[Category: |
[[Category:Woodrow Wilson]] |
||