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

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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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arswaw [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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Hamilton fans in shambles.

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Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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AleKKK$cammer $hamilton

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

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

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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

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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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StalinStan [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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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.

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arswaw [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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I like to imagine John Adams was the exception to the rule.

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PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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Tom Paine was pretty cool

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anonochronomus [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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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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JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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Wait till you hear what they thought about the poor.

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

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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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Angel [any]@hexbear.net
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wtf nooo thomas jefferson would never do this

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arswaw [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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Maybe we should’ve seen the signs when we found out about his plantation.

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