Talk:Sons of Liberty

message: The line for Benjamin Church here currently reads: "first Surgeon-General of the United States Army and known trader. Banished from Massachusetts in 1778."
The underlying entry for Benjamin Church (physician) has no indication he was a merchant ("trader") but that he "was tried and convicted of 'communicating with the enemy'"  ("traitor", hence the banishment).
This looks like an obvious unintended typo or spelling error from an earlier author, but the last attempt to repair it got flagged as vandalism and reversed.  Can someone suggest and get through an appropriate entry?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Phyxit (talk • contribs) 03:09, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Benjamin Church, trader or traitor? 

message: These are very important events, notable i may say. It is very lacking to not have these Mentioned once on this Wikipeidia article  Billy Apicella 38.73.233.229 (talk) 16:23, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Talk about the Gaspee Affair or the Boston Tea Party 

message: Is it controversial or something to state the fact that the sons of liberty were, relatively speaking, left wing? I mean the Whigs and Jacobins and Jeffersonians are treated as left wing, and they share very similar ideology and politics with the Sons of Liberty. 2600:1007:B0A3:862C:A9BE:D626:A282:DC31 (talk) 22:51, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The words "left" and "right" weren't used with a political meaning at that time, and it might not be simple to apply the later French revolution or modern meanings.  They were certainly against British government forceful tactics.  It would be good to have a reliable source for any description of their ideological affiliation. AnonMoos (talk) 10:58, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: "the terms left and right weren't used with a political meaning at the time" yet the article for the whig party of England has a "center, center left" label, even though the party predates the "french revolution meaning". The "Left-Right" label describes a historical trend, progressive (purely political sense) vs conservative (again, purely political sense) groups or factions or parties or ideologies (it's equivalent to the usage of Whig/Liberal and Tory in 18th-19th century America and Britain). 2600:1007:B0A2:FCB3:71F3:524C:6DC:2766 (talk) 22:05, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: In the UK during much of the 19th century, the Whigs were somewhat dominated by factory-owners and commercial merchants, while the Tories were somewhat dominated by large rural landowners, and each exploited and profited off a repressed workforce -- factory workers for the Whigs and agricultural laborers for the Tories.  Which was then "left" and which "right"?? AnonMoos (talk) 03:59, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Who do you think the French leftists were? Collectivising commies? The political divide at the time was between the "progressive" enlightenment inspired liberalism supporting bourgeois, and the "conservative" monarchist landed gentry peerage. The talk about the rights of workers and peasants doesn't come until after the fact, after the "liberals" establish Capitalism and it's promises fail to come to fruition (in the eyes of 19th century socialists). 2600:1007:B0A2:FCB3:C04A:F19A:CA72:A04B (talk) 18:02, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political position