Patriotic mobs and harbor tea-dumping are returning to Boston as the city marks the 250th anniversary.

Patriotic mobs and harbor tea-dumping returned to Boston on Saturday as the city marked the 250th anniversary of the revolutionary protest that preceded America’s independence.

The commemoration of the Boston Tea Party included scheduled reenactments of the throwing of tea leaves into the city’s harbor and community meetings that preceded the defiant act on Dec. 16, 1773 — though this time, the symbolic protest was aided by spotlights and microphones. City officials were expecting thousands of visitors for the celebration.

Crowds who gathered to watch the reenactment quickly joined in, shouting “Huzzah!” along with the costumed actors as boxes of tea were dumped in the harbor. Later, they resoundingly booed an actor who read King George III’s order closing the bay, and they cheered as narrators detailed the drafting of the Declaration of Independence.

Tea for the reenactment was supplied by the East India Co., the same British company that was at the center of the raucous dispute.

  • @Rusticus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13•11 months ago

    You obviously don’t understand that the tea party was an act of property destruction of a corporation that was given preferential treatment by the government. An “eat the rich” act against corporatism. We need more of that today yet here you are completely misrepresenting it and defending the mega corporations.

    https://fee.org/resources/about-that-famous-tea-party/

      • @Rusticus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•11 months ago

        Got it. So because you couldn’t comprehend an article from a prominent historian regarding the true history of the Boston Tea Party you’re just going to stick to your blatantly incorrect interpretation of the historical event. Your 5th grade teacher is not proud of you. You deserve the dictatorship that may be coming.

        • @x4740N@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2•11 months ago

          You don’t need to be so rude

          I legitimately found it hard to read the article because it looked like a text wall and text walls are hard to read for me personally

          You deserve the dictatorship that may be coming.

          I’m not a fucking right winger

          Bigots, transphobes and racists can go and fuck themselves and accusing me of being like those fuckers just because I said it was hard to read a text wall is pretty fucking rude

          I won’t excuse racism for anything and I hope you don’t either

          You’re just as toxic as people on reddit and I hoped I wouldn’t have had the same experience on lemmy