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  • CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    Yep and there were even white people who pointed out how absurd it was for the founders to act like they thought all people were equal when they also tortured human beings with chattel slavery. Wasn’t a “times were different” thing, America has just always been evil.

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      The one “good” founding father, Paine, was an idealist who’s words were co-opted to further their bourgeois revolt. He died penniless and reviled because he actually believed the equality shit