“We won’t be their negroes. Providence never designed us for negroes, I know, for if it had it wou’d have given us black hides, and thick lips, and flat noses, and short woolly hair, which it han’t done, and therefore never intended us for slaves. This I know is good a sillogissim as any at colledge, I say we are as handsome as old England folks, and so should be as free” -- John Adams under a pseudonym

Also read Domenico Losurdo's Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism, section: “Racial state and eugenics: the United States and the Third Reich” [link]

Death to Amerika, death to liberalism

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[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Was curious why he was using a pseudonym and couldn't really find reasoning for it but did find Adams say

“That my Confessions may be compleat I must tell you that I wrote a very foolish unmeaning thing in Fleets Paper in 1762 or 1763 under the signature of Humphrey Ploughjogger. In this there was neither good nor Evil, yet it excited more merriment than all my other writings together”

Just a bit of merriment telling the entire colony some of the most racist shit possible

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Your honoreth, I waſ onle being raciſt ironikalle

[–] asparagus9001@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry Charlie Murphy, it was an accident.... I was having too much fun