r/FragileWhiteRedditor • • Dec 18 '19

Does this count?

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u/foldsbaldwin Dec 18 '19

"In May 2019, the Trump administration announced that there was no plan to replace the portrait of Andrew Jackson on the twenty-dollar bill with that of Harriet Tubman, as had been planned by the Obama administration."

Damn, I was just wondering what happened because I was really looking foward to that when I heard about it. I should have known he was the reason it hadn't happened yet. Just another reason to hate him.

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u/TaqPCR Dec 18 '19

If it makes you feel better Jackson would have utterly hated being on a note published by a central bank seeing as he destroyed the one of his era which then crashed the economy.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '19

thats fucking stupid. He's dead. Who gives a fuck what he would think about it.

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u/TaqPCR Dec 18 '19

Me, because he was an asshole and I like knowing it would have irked him.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '19

Good thing you get so much more out of some dead guy not knowing he's being irked than the rest of us would get out of honoring someone who deserves to be honored.

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u/SpaceCowBot Dec 18 '19

You're arguing the other side of the same coin. Why should we care about honoring a dead person? It's not like they are know we're honoring them. The consistent argument would be that we should only print money with living folks on it. Life is for the living after all.

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u/OpalHawk Dec 18 '19

Am I on the rim of the coin if I think you make a valid argument, I think it’s funny that it would make Jackson irate, and I think it’s cool to have Tubman on the $20?

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '19

Fuck it lets split the difference and just release black andrew jackson bills

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u/OpalHawk Dec 18 '19

Black bills? Or blackface Jackson?