Hey blueskyking please stop defending a slave master known as Thomas Jefferson

https://similarworlds.com/beliefs/4672691-Happy-Birthday-Thomas-Jefferson-On-this-date-in-1743-Thomas

He owned 600-700+ slaves.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-dark-side-of-thomas-jefferson-35976004/

And Sam Harris was a racist that believed that white men have higher IQs than other races.

https://www.salon.com/2020/08/16/sam-harris-and-donald-trump-theyre-completely-different--yet-very-much-alike/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/the-big-idea/2017/5/18/15655638/charles-murray-race-iq-sam-harris-science-free-speech

Stop defending bigots whether they're religious bigots or secular bigots.

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bijouxbroussard · F

Jefferson also started having children by one of those slaves, Sally Hemings. People have tried to revise that as some kind of "love story"—except she was 14 when it started and it’s unlikely that she had a choice. His white descendants at first denied it happened at all, until it was proven that they were sharing DNA with Hemings’ descendants.

Harmonium1923 · 51-55, M

@bijouxbroussard All true. 100%. And yet he is still an immensely complicated and important figure. He did lay the philosophical groundwork for the eventual abolition of slavery in the US and wanted to do more at the time than proved possible. He was a complicated and flawed man, but also a great one in many ways.

bijouxbroussard · F

@Harmonium1923 Except for being a child rapist…[b]complicated, flawed[/b]. Right.