Comments on: “An epidemic of lifestyle moralism”

By: Blawg Review #325.3 » Defending People

Blawg Review #325.3 » Defending People — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:45:53 +0000

[…] [Link fixed.] Walter Olson (who also hosted BR#220) is still alive and kicking at Overlawyered, linking to my favorite story of the week (okay, my favorite story other than the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals’ online-solicitation decision), as well as Security agencies vs. being made fun of, Kansas: state sues sperm donor for child support, and “An epidemic of lifestyle moralism”. […]

By: PaulB

PaulB — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:16:13 +0000

Density, I’m skeptical of the “KKK caused Prohibition” angle, although it sounds great for a modern audience. The 18th Amendment was enacted before the Klan rose to prominence in the early 1920s. If anything, the leading proponents of temperance were the mainline Protestant denominations that had previously spearheaded the abolitionist movement.

A more relevant fact is that the anti-German American hysteria that washed over the US during WW I was tapped into by the temperance movement and allowed them to push through Prohibition. Beer was an almost entirely run by the descendants of German immigrants. Obviously, the Busches, Schultzes, and Muellers were just doing the bidding of Kaiser Bill

By: DensityDuck

DensityDuck — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 05:00:52 +0000

It’s really interesting to read the history of Prohibition and learn that it was heavily supported by the KKK, who were scared at the notion of all those dangerous uncivilized Negroes getting all drunk and rowdy.