arswaw [he/him]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agoREALIZATION: some of the American founding fathers held racist beliefs.message-squaremessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up160
arrow-up160message-squareREALIZATION: some of the American founding fathers held racist beliefs.arswaw [he/him]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareDirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·1 year agoOnly some?
minus-squareLaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·edit-21 year agoSome of them had extraordinarily racist beliefs for their time
minus-squareRom [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year agoBenjamin Franklin was vocally abolitionist, for what it’s worth. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Address_to_the_Public
minus-squarearswaw [he/him]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoThe founding fathers did some good things, but more bad things. The fact that they are so venerated, is due to deliberate distortions and omissions of their historical biographies in US schools.
minus-squareStalinStan [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoHe was protected from rascism by being a sex guy. He was too busy fuckin’ and suckin’ to be hatin’ He was also an asshole. That is unrealted.
minus-squareEmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agohttps://youtu.be/kE6soN1kcP4
minus-squareHexReplyBot [none/use name]@hexbear.netBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: yewtu.be inv.nadeko.net yt.artemislena.eu piped.video
minus-squarePM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoTom Paine was pretty cool
minus-squarearswaw [he/him]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoI like to imagine John Adams was the exception to the rule.
Only some?
Some of them had extraordinarily racist beliefs for their time
Benjamin Franklin was vocally abolitionist, for what it’s worth.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Address_to_the_Public
The founding fathers did some good things, but more bad things. The fact that they are so venerated, is due to deliberate distortions and omissions of their historical biographies in US schools.
He was protected from rascism by being a sex guy. He was too busy fuckin’ and suckin’ to be hatin’
He was also an asshole. That is unrealted.
https://youtu.be/kE6soN1kcP4
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Tom Paine was pretty cool
I like to imagine John Adams was the exception to the rule.