arswaw [he/him]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 months agoREALIZATION: some of the American founding fathers held racist beliefs.message-squaremessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up164arrow-down12
arrow-up162arrow-down1message-squareREALIZATION: some of the American founding fathers held racist beliefs.arswaw [he/him]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square27fedilink
minus-squareDirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·11 months agoOnly some?
minus-squareLaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·edit-211 months agoSome of them had extraordinarily racist beliefs for their time
minus-squareRom [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·11 months 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-up12·11 months 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-up6·11 months 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-up3·11 months agohttps://youtu.be/kE6soN1kcP4
minus-squareHexReplyBot [none/use name]@hexbear.netBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months 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-up8·11 months agoTom Paine was pretty cool
minus-squarearswaw [he/him]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 months 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.