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Aug 15, 2022Liked by Second City Bureaucrat

Brother, The Old Deluder Satan Act was the first compulsory education law and it was passed well before the 19th Century.

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I can't believe Banfield got this wrong. To be charitable, I'll say he was referring to the first post-independence act.

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Aug 16, 2022Liked by Second City Bureaucrat

It's an Ed School favorite since they get to mock the Old Believers while also establishing that compulsory schooling goes back to the very beginning.

The funny thing is how the law was structured. There was a general test and parents were fined if their kids failed it. So not exactly compulsory but that's how it played out.

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Aug 24, 2022Liked by Second City Bureaucrat

Irish were 13% of the population but did 60% of the almshouses

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This was very interesting. Thank you for writing

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Aug 16, 2022Liked by Second City Bureaucrat

This is very good stuff. Thank you. Will share at my place.

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Aug 14, 2022Liked by Second City Bureaucrat

Might be strategically wise or just fun to refer to the Protestant ethic as the judeo ethic, would be very fun to watch AOC go full Farrakhan and denounce it

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GK Chesterton does this.

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Aug 15, 2022Liked by Second City Bureaucrat

https://youtu.be/sERiPuOQyvo

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Noticed your tweet on the MBiC meme.

My comment here was (an unusually context appropriate) riff on that meme with Soggy Bottom undertones and hints of legit fellow-feeling.

My sense is that there are a good many refugees from Veggie Tales Churchianity and Subbort the Troobs patriotism on Reddit so MBiC is a natural usage with both ironic and legit meaning.

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