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 | | When, as prime minister, Gibson sought to help the Hawaiian victims of leprosy, he considered it his task to dispel the idea that the disease was a "badge of shame" for the Hawaiians, a sign of their inferiority, and a physical manifestation of their moral decay. |
 | | The Hawaiian language, in which Gibson was proficient (rare among whites in the islands), could be used by the government to include or exclude selected groups from the nationalist discourse. |
 | | The members of the Hawaiian League, Planters Labor and Supply Company, and Honolulu Rifles, who made the 1887 coup possible, strove to present their actions as a means of defending the interests of all the residents of Hawaii against a decadent, unfit, and isolated ruler. |
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