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REALIZATION: some of the American founding fathers held racist beliefs. (hexbear.net)
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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Only some?

[–] 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 (2 children)

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 (1 children)

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 (1 children)
[–] 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:

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

Tom Paine was pretty cool

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

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