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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CountScrofula · 41-45, M Best Comment

People need to stop treating the American founding fathers as saints. A bunch of slave-driving plantation owners whose ideas about freedom were narrowly restricted to white male landlords.

Peaceandnamaste · 26-30, F

@CountScrofula thanks

bijouxbroussard · F

@CountScrofula Agreed. And I especially hate when people say, "you can’t judge the past by today’s standards !" Slavery as a [b]bad[/b] thing is not a modern concept—the Revolutionary War happened because [b]they[/b] didn’t want to be under someone else’s control; they understood the concept of freedom for [b]themselves[/b]. Plus, there were active abolitionists, and slave "uprisings".
What I hear when someone tries to defend slaveowners based on different times is "It’s not [b]their[/b] fault that they didn’t consider people like you human beings."
If not, whose fault was it ? Hell, yeah I can judge that—and I do. 🤨

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@bijouxbroussard Also it's just a bad argument and ahistorical, it wasn't particularly rare to be an abolitionist even in those days.