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[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago

George Washington was cartoonishly evil

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

[-] arswaw@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

Hamilton fans in shambles.

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

kelly AleKKK$cammer $hamilton

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago
[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Some of them had extraordinarily racist beliefs for their time

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

Benjamin Franklin was vocally abolitionist, for what it's worth.

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

[-] arswaw@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] StalinStan@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

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@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago
[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[-] arswaw@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

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

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

Tom Paine was pretty cool

[-] anonochronomus@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago

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

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago

Wait till you hear what they thought about the poor.

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago
[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

Madison loved his Opulent Minority.

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

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...

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

wtf nooo thomas jefferson would never do this

[-] arswaw@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago
[-] Civility@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago
[-] StalinStan@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

They hated both races. Italians and the irish.

[-] Tomboymoder@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] nocturnedragonite@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Lmao wtf do you think Manifest Destiny was?

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

overrated DLC

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

the worst part is that they are hypocrites

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

New ideas don't emerge out of nothing, and people with new ideas don't start by having wholly adopted those ideas. It takes time to work out the contradictions and the hypocrisy. And some get there sooner than others. Some never get there at all.

this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2024
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