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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)

George Washington was cartoonishly evil

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hamilton fans in shambles.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

kelly AleKKK$cammer $hamilton

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Some of them had extraordinarily racist beliefs for their time

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Tom Paine was pretty cool

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait till you hear what they thought about the poor.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Madison loved his Opulent Minority.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 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...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

wtf nooo thomas jefferson would never do this

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

They hated both races. Italians and the irish.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Lmao wtf do you think Manifest Destiny was?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

overrated DLC

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

the worst part is that they are hypocrites

[–] [email protected] 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.