• deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    10 hours ago

    Imagine looking up to slavers from hundreds of years ago as your moral compass 🤮

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      9 hours ago

      Ben Franklin owned seven slaves early in his life, but later got rid of them, became an outspoken critic of slavery, and worked toward its abolition.

      Also, slavery or not, the point still stands. They wouldn’t recognize America today and would be horrified.

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        Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.

        If nothing would shock your ancestors, you have stagnated.

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        7 hours ago

        Of what?

        There was a transgender Royal Governor of New York State.

        Edward Hyde, served 1702 to 1708.

        You’d know that if you actually studied US history.

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          Of what?

          There was a transgender Royal Governor of New York State.

          This may come as a shock to you, but the existence of trans people is not the only significant change that has happened here since the 1700s.

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          You immediately assumed they held a position opposite of yours for no reason and then speak condescendingly to them, why? Maybe they think the founding fathers would be horrified by the same things you are horrified by. And even if they didn’t, they aren’t defending them, just stating the fact that they would indeed be horrified.

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          “Bonomi concluded that Lord Cornbury’s crossdressing was likely invented by his political enemies as character assassination.”