George Washington was cartoonishly evil
(CW: drawn depiction of a slaved being whipped, and a dog being hanged)
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2024
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Only some?
Some of them had extraordinarily racist beliefs for their time
Benjamin Franklin was vocally abolitionist, for what it's worth.
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.
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.
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Tom Paine was pretty cool
I like to imagine John Adams was the exception to the rule.
Weird, maybe we should collectively stop giving a shit about what they wanted since it's clearly bad.
Wait till you hear what they thought about the poor.
Madison loved his Opulent Minority.
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...
wtf nooo thomas jefferson would never do this
Maybe we should've seen the signs when we found out about his plantation.
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They hated both races. Italians and the irish.
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.
the worst part is that they are hypocrites
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.