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arswaw [he/him]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago

REALIZATION: some of the American founding fathers held racist beliefs.

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REALIZATION: some of the American founding fathers held racist beliefs.

arswaw [he/him]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    George Washington was cartoonishly evil

    (CW: drawn depiction of a slaved being whipped, and a dog being hanged)

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      Hamilton fans in shambles.

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        kelly AleKKK$cammer $hamilton

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Only some?

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Some of them had extraordinarily racist beliefs for their time

    • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Benjamin Franklin was vocally abolitionist, for what it’s worth.

      https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Address_to_the_Public

      • arswaw [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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        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.

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        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.

        • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          https://youtu.be/kE6soN1kcP4

          • HexReplyBot [none/use name]@hexbear.netB
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            I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

            • yewtu.be
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            • piped.video
    • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Tom Paine was pretty cool

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      I like to imagine John Adams was the exception to the rule.

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    Weird, maybe we should collectively stop giving a shit about what they wanted since it’s clearly bad.

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    Wait till you hear what they thought about the poor.

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      • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        Madison loved his Opulent Minority.

      • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        But I was told they believe all men* were created equal!

        *Except black people, and poor people, and most racial minorities really, and religious minorities, and women…

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    wtf nooo thomas jefferson would never do this

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      Maybe we should’ve seen the signs when we found out about his plantation.

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    capitaldcolon

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    😔

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    They hated both races. Italians and the irish.

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    The least racist founder I can think of was still really racist.
    Benjamin Rush thought you shouldn’t treat Black people bad, but only because they were actually white people with a disease that made them black that he thought could potentially be cured.

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    the worst part is that they are hypocrites

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