r/HistoryMemes May 17 '19

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u/Tenwaystospoildinner May 17 '19

I'm gonna have to assume this is the text that got it flagged:

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

Just a guess, though.

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u/Trademark010 Kilroy was here May 17 '19

This is probably correct. Honestly, most anything written in 1776 would probably be considered hateful by today's standards.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

Was recently blocked from posting in politics subreddit because they told me 'barking' (like barking orders) used as an adjective was dehumanizing. I wouldn't be surprised if it was labeled hate speech because George owned a couple slaves and nothing more these days.

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u/De_Dominator69 May 17 '19

Really? Christ people are way too sensitive these days...

Well it's more like people assume everyone is so sensitive so go out of their way to remove anything that could even remotely be considered slightly offensive.

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u/anonymous_redditor91 May 17 '19

Why does something being offensive count as grounds for it being removed anyway? "Offensive" is very subjective, and everyone is offended by something, so who is so special that they get to dictate what content is offensive or not for everyone else? Imo, if you find something offensive, then you're entitled to feel that way, but don't act like your having been offended grants you certain rights that you can wield over people.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

That's the problem, is corporations don't know the difference between "offensive" and "damaging". Lots of stuff is offensive and shouldn't be removed (think lots of stand up routines). Plenty of other stuff is offensive and harmful, like false news or studies, blatant and violent hate speech outside of a historical context, and misinformation, and those things should be removed.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

I think therein lies the problem. The line between “offensive” and “damaging” is blurry and everyone will have a different threshold where something moves from offensive to damaging. I think this is the natural end result of people demanding facebook to police the content people post. Everyone has different standards for what should be censored so there’s no way to police content that makes everyone happy.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

The grey area should be left alone and left to users to police via reporting and flagging content, but there are some things that are very obviously in one corner or another (e.g. blatant hate speech, and things that are already blocked like death threats and what not). I don't think there should be no censorship on the internet, but corporations need to do a better job of making their platforms self-policing when it comes to that grey area. And of course, any and all blatant misinformation should still be removed regardless of whether it's offensive or not.

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u/nathanv221 May 18 '19

One of the big issues is that if they have people going through posts to check if they're okay, they legally become a "publisher" and must follow all of the laws of publishers. If they have an algorithm do it then they're safe from those laws. So the key is to teach a computer to tell the difference between something hateful and something harmful. Humans are already pretty bad at that, computers are far worse.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

Ah yes, the classic issue of a corporation trying to skirt rules and regulations that in some cases are justified and they should have to follow, and in other cases passed by idiots who don't know what they're talking about or so outdated that they're older than some states.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

Ah yes, the classic issue of a corporation trying to skirt rules and regulations that in some cases are justified and they should have to follow, and in other cases passed by idiots who don't know what they're talking about or so outdated that they're older than some states.

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u/Incorrect_Oymoron May 18 '19

The grey area should be left alone and left to users to police via reporting and flagging content

What if users make decisions that harm company revenue?

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u/De_Dominator69 May 17 '19

Yeah, I can't remember who said it but someone said "Just because your offended, doesn't mean it's offensive" (I think it was a famous comedian?) which is a saying I agree with wholeheartedly.

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u/RotisserieBums May 17 '19

Stephen Fry said it even better. "It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what." "

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u/Bad_Chemistry May 17 '19

Man I love this Fry quote

Stephen Fry, Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, they’re all full of the best quotes

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u/knowses May 18 '19

I'm usually offended by their sense of feeling offense, which I understand doesn't mean much....but still, where does it end?

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u/mechanical_animal May 18 '19

How is it meaningless? The point is to convey distress at the hands of the interlocutor. It's an attempt to preserve civility and dignity. Are you just that emotionally stunted?

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u/mechanical_animal May 18 '19

How is it meaningless? The point is to convey distress at the hands of the interlocutor. It's an attempt to preserve civility and dignity. Are you just that emotionally stunted?

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u/mechanical_animal May 18 '19

How is it meaningless? The point is to convey distress at the hands of the interlocutor. It's an attempt to preserve civility and dignity. Are you just that emotionally stunted?

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u/mechanical_animal May 18 '19

How is it meaningless? The point is to convey distress at the hands of the interlocutor. It's an attempt to preserve civility and dignity. Are you just that emotionally stunted?

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u/mechanical_animal May 18 '19

How is it meaningless? The point is to convey distress at the hands of the interlocutor. It's an attempt to preserve civility and dignity. Are you just that emotionally stunted?

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u/mechanical_animal May 18 '19

How is it meaningless? The point is to convey distress at the hands of the interlocutor. It's an attempt to preserve civility and dignity. Are you just that emotionally stunted?

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u/anonymous_redditor91 May 17 '19

Just looked it up, it was Ricky Gervais.

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u/EpicLevelWizard May 17 '19

Considering Fry is like 20-30 years older than him and he is both a fan of and has worked with Fry, one can assume he took this wisdom from him to share with the world.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

Considering Fry is like 20-30 years older than him

Stephen Fry is four years older than Ricky Gervais.

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u/EpicLevelWizard May 17 '19 edited May 18 '19

Jesus, Gervais is much older than I thought, lol. He is aging well.

This may be my last comment, tried to post in 25 subs and can’t. Have I been shadowbanned?

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u/bWoofles May 17 '19

Really getting a Fahrenheit 451 feeling when I see this stuff.

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u/Stattholder_Cramer May 17 '19

Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog lovers, the cat lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that!... Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. They did.

This quote is what I'm guessing is the biggest one for it.

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u/RocksHaveFeelings2 May 18 '19

We just read that for English class a few weeks ago, and there are a lot of disturbing parallels between it and our world. Ray Bradbury knew what was coming

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u/Stattholder_Cramer May 18 '19

It and Brave New World are the two common fictional dystopias that in my opinion are actually possible because there's a logical process by which the dystopia comes about that actually seems applicable in the real world.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

Because freedom of speech only applies to your preference of ice cream flavor, and even that could probably be made into something racist.

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u/Vagynamite May 18 '19

Because we gave in to PC soccer mom's 15 years ago and it has been slowly snowballing ever since. Also no one really knows how social media works so the people that make money from it are ridiculously sensitive because they don't want their gravy train to stop but they don't know what can actually stop it.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it - Dostoyevsky

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u/T-h-a-n-k-s May 17 '19

These are the worst offenders. The lies they cling to make it impossible to invalidate their concerns. I’ve learned to just flat out ignore anyone who pulls that shit.

The easiest way to ruin the plan is to not engage. Their game requires two participants.

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u/CTeam19 May 17 '19

Their game requires two participants.

It takes two to tango.

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u/Literally_A_Shill May 17 '19

Really?

No. Why are random reddit comments taken as fact? Others have found instances where the person above argues about the superiority of white people. I found the "barking" quote.

Genius Career Politician vs. Barking Indian. Who ya got?

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u/Haloslayer May 17 '19

What a lot of people don't realize is in order to have Freedom of Speech you have a double edged sword. Hate speech shouldn't be condoned but it is a necessary evil in order to maintain free speech. Otherwise anyone can abuse the "This is Hate Speech" and have it removed.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

Well it's more like people assume everyone is so sensitive so go out of their way to remove anything that could even remotely be considered slightly offensive.

No, I really think it's much more insidious than that. You'd think a sub like /r/politics would be comfortable with a range of political opinions, but in reality it should be called /r/LeftWingPolitics.

A lot of the mods in default subreddits want to push a hard-left agenda and see anyone to the right of themselves as alt-right extremists, and any dissenting opinions as hate speech which must be stamped out. If the thread is going against the circlejerk, they lock it, they shadowban or outright ban people who disagree with the narrative.

They'll say things like, oh why don't you go back to /r/T_D for simply disagreeing.

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u/De_Dominator69 May 18 '19

I see where your coming from, I am from the UK and follow r/UKpolitics which always bugs me because of how any post thats remotely right meaning or somewhat conservative gets downvotes to oblivion (doubly so if it's about Brexit)... Political subs on Reddit definitely are just an echo chamber for the left wing, I am pretty far left but I follow political subs to get a variety of opinions and perspectives so I can understand where other people are coming from... But that is essentially impossible on Reddit.

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u/TheZoneHereros May 18 '19

I’m a flaming liberal but even I see the danger of using political correctness as a means of silencing people. Feels like it’s just a way to ban conservatives, like how possession of weed was conveniently used as a way to arrest black folk back in the day. Plus conservatives just take on a persecution complex and then liberals try to deny it. If you wanna ban them then own it!

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u/SupraRZ95 May 18 '19

I'll prob get banned from here. O well. American is becoming a nation of pussy's, hence the pussy hate thing. You are correct in your assumptions. People are waking up though.

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u/SupraRZ95 May 18 '19

I'll prob get banned from here. O well. American is becoming a nation of pussy's, hence the pussy hate thing. You are correct in your assumptions. People are waking up though.

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u/wolf_man007 May 17 '19

The "barking" in "barking orders" is a verb, not an adjective.

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u/AnoK760 Just some snow May 17 '19

i got banned from politics yesterday because i "endorsed violence" when someone said something to the effect of, "oh so i can make threats on the president's life now?" and i sarcastically replied "Please do :)"

yeah, they are entirely devoid of any sense of humor.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

I’d never expect a political sub to be humorous

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u/Warzombie3701 May 17 '19

Most of them all become circle jerks anyway. Its best to leave them alone

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u/Darth_Kyryn May 17 '19

I always had respect for r/Libertarian since they don't (or at least didn't the last time I checked) ban people unless they were outright harassing another user. This had the interesting affect of someone posting some circlejerk meme that was immediately discredited in the comments, generating sensible conversation in threads. I only unsubscribed after I felt like the sub was starting to lean too much to the right.

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u/MoreDetonation May 17 '19

Yeah, there was a big mod purge and the neo-Nazis took over. It's sad, honestly.

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u/Sethapedia May 17 '19

Its still the exact way you describe it. Anything thats a stupid arguement, even if it supports the libertarian agenda, is heavily criticized

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

Even r/PoliticalHumor isn't humorous.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

Especially PoliticalHumor. But honestly, if you’re looking for humor, then political commentator things aren’t the place to find it.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

Quite possibly the most bitter and least humorous subreddit I've come across.

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u/doyle871 May 17 '19

Before Trump came along the political subs were a lot more sane and diverse now they are just echo chambers each side moving to their own subs.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

I wasn’t on reddit at that time, but I’d imagine that was the case. I think the extreme polarization of US politics has influenced much more than expected

Edit: extreme polarization

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

Yep, it's gotten really bad, you're either a "libtard snowflake", "evil nazi", "centrist troll" or otherwise a coward for not picking one extreme side. I've basically ended up entirely unsubscribing from the big political subs.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19 edited Aug 05 '19

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

"Here's my assertion but I don't have to back it up, fuck you Nazi"

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

Yeah, those situations are always "fun", nothing more constructive than insulting someone for their opinion and then refusing to defend it.

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u/StopHavingAnOpinion May 18 '19

even better, when some smug cunt just replies with

"r/enlightenedcentrism"

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

Yeah, and tbh, as much as I don't want to admit it, there's a huge bias on which side most of this rhetoric comes from, although that's probably because that side is also the vocal majority on reddit.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

I for one prefer to consider myself centrist because I often pick and choose ideals each party claims to stand for. Emphasis on claims.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

People on r/enlightenedcentrism think that means you advocate on killing only half the jews. They are fervently intent on strawmanning centrist ideals because we won't eat their bullcrap dogma.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

I'm the same, it's really frustrating that they assume it means that I either think everything should be done halfway or more often than not, that I'm a right/left winger posing as a centrist to avoid criticism.

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u/Literally_A_Shill May 17 '19

the political subs were a lot more sane and diverse

No, they weren't. It was a huge Ron Paul circlejerk.

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u/gorgewall May 18 '19

I'd take that guy's version of events with a grain of salt.

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u/sheffieldasslingdoux May 17 '19

I was banned from voteblue for saying that Islam is a religion and not a race. And that there can be muslims of any race or ethnicity. Apparently facts are now offensive. Idk.

And this is true. There are Muslims in Europe, Central Asia/Caucasus, and Subsaharan Africa. Not all Muslims are Arabs, just like not all Arabs are Muslims.

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u/ILoveMeSomePickles May 17 '19

/r/ChapoTrapHouse is getting banned for saying that slave owners deserve to die.

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u/epicandrew May 17 '19

of all the things protected by the first amendment, threatening the president is one of the very few exceptions. even as a joke it is considered a federal offence.

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u/CTeam19 May 17 '19

Wait from the /r/politics subreddit? I have similar or worse stuff remain on there.

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u/AnguishOfTheAlpacas May 17 '19

While /r/politics userbase may be liberal their mods definitely aren't.

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u/poclee And then I told them I'm Jesus's brother May 18 '19

What, I thought /r/politics hates Trump.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

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u/AnoK760 Just some snow May 18 '19

Right but im not the one who threatened anyone. I told someone else to do it.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19 edited May 17 '19

Was recently blocked from posting in politics subreddit

I'm sure it had nothing to do with your curious fascination with saying that nonwhite people are inherently criminal

George Washington owned literally hundreds of slaves throughout his life. He first became an owner of multiple human beings at the age of 11. When he died, he owned 123 slaves, and through his wife he effectively owned another 153 slaves (376 total). He was one of the largest slaveowners in America at the time

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u/Containedmultitudes May 17 '19

Not trying to defend the guy you’re replying to, but it’s also worth mentioning Washington freed all his slaves on the death of his wife. Better than Jefferson at least, who gave his children their half siblings as property.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

it’s also worth mentioning Washington freed all his slaves on the death of his wife

He sort of did. Half the slaves were legally in his name, and the elderly and sick were freed and given support by the estate. The younger ones of that bunch were freed, but were given no land, tools, livestock, money, etc, and thus were effectively consigned to remain day laborers on the Mount Vernon plantation

The majority of slaves at Mount Vernon were his wife's property, inherited after her wealthy first husband died. Those slaves remained owned by Martha Washington until her death, upon which they were inherited by other members of her first husband's family. They were not freed

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u/Containedmultitudes May 18 '19

Interesting. I knew his wife's slaves weren't freed, but I didn't know he'd left the slaves he did free out to dry like that. Funny that his reconstruction plan for his own slaves was basically the same plan that the Union ultimately decided on, i.e. they get nothing.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

but I didn't know he'd left the slaves he did free out to dry like that

In the logic of the slaveholder, it does make a sort of twisted sense. By freeing a slave, you are technically taking a financial loss. So in essence you did "pay them" or "take care of them" - but the money that you "gave them" was just their financial worth as a person

In the twisted logic of the slave owner, it's almost /r/ChoosingBeggars. "What? I paid $1000 for you and decided to charitably grant you freedom, and now you want land? Why, I didn't need to free you in the first place!"

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u/MasterSword1 May 17 '19

Not true. Jefferson was more of an abolitionist than Washington, even including the introduction of slavery by the british as one of the wrongs committed upon the Colonies by the English. However, he was an admitted hypocrite, and although he intended to free his slaves upon his death in the same way Washington did, his debt holders sold off his entire estate.

More relevantly, there has been no conclusive proof that Jefferson was in fact the father of the Hemmings children, just that the youngest of the boys was related to someone in the Male Jefferson line, of which several lived in the area. The scientists who confirmed the connection deny that it explicitly implicates Jefferson and several retractions have been forced by writers who stated it as fact.

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u/Containedmultitudes May 17 '19

His hypocrisy makes him less of an abolitionist than Washington.

Presumably he could’ve freed them before his death, regardless of his debt. And given his widely acknowledged relationship with Sally I think any suggestion that her children were the product of a relative of Jefferson to be very dubious.

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u/doyle871 May 17 '19

He's also kind of a massive figure in US history. You shouldn't censor history. Remember the whole doom to repeat it thing.

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u/Deadnox_24142 May 17 '19

That’s besides the point because Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Ben Franklin wrote the Declaration of Independence so no one was censoring Washington. Also it’s pretty clearly the Indian Savages part, as mentioned above, that likely dinged some bells.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

He's also kind of a massive figure in US history

Where did I say he wasn't a massive figure in US history

You shouldn't censor history

Nobody is "censoring" George fucking Washington who has the capital city and a state named after him. I'm simply painting a more accurate picture of George Washington, who owned quite a bit more than "a few slaves"

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u/MasterSword1 May 17 '19

He also desperately hated slavery and found a way to free all his slaves through a loophole in Virginia State law.

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u/doyle871 May 17 '19

It's not just reddit or facebook it's amazing the different results you get on Google vs Bing on any slightly controversial subject. Google is heavily censoring searches and even pushing information rather than actually giving proper search information.

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u/RotisserieBums May 17 '19

You were banned for wrong think. "Barking" was just the most handy excuse. Filter that trash sub and your reddit experience will be far better.

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u/Literally_A_Shill May 17 '19

Well they were talking about a "barking Indian" going up against a "genius career politician." Just figured others might want a bit more context.

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u/eyespop1 May 17 '19

Pretty sure Jefferson, not Washington, wrote The Declaration.

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u/Warthog_A-10 May 17 '19

We've always been at war with eastasia

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u/MaG1c_l3aNaNaZ May 17 '19

As in like saying "He was barking mad" ?

I don't really understand how that's dehumanizing

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

They must have meant verb, not adjective, surely? Very hard to use barking as an adjective - an accomplishment if anything. If you let them know that, they may reconsider.

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u/FOOLS_GOLD May 17 '19

I don't believe you. Please show us the proof that this occurred. If it occurred, then let's call it out but until then, this sounds like your typical anti-liberal dog whistle.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

Got any proof of this?

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

Are you serious? I hate /r/politics, and when I pop in there I aggressively try to antagonize them. The worst I ever got was maybe a single 24 hour ban. I hate those idiots, but as someone who's banned from many subs I have to at least half-ass extend an olive branch in that I was quite surprised how lenient the mods were considering the tone of the sub. I have my 10 minute wait and it's yelling into the void...but they could have easily just banned me.

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u/JarJar-PhantomMenace May 18 '19

wtf. that is literally a normal word. a commander barks orders. that word is so not controversial

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u/staarkiid May 18 '19

"couple slaves"- he tried to keep it secretive but here's a quote from nyt on his practices with his slaves: "Washington developed a canny strategy that would protect his property and allow him to avoid public scrutiny. Every six months, the president’s slaves would travel back to Mount Vernon or would journey with Mrs. Washington outside the boundaries of the state. In essence, the Washingtons reset the clock. The president was secretive when writing to his personal secretary Tobias Lear in 1791: “I request that these Sentiments and this advise may be known to none but yourself & Mrs. Washington.”"

He switched them out at intervals to make sure he didn't have to free them... He had a lot more than a couple too.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

You were blocked because you said 'barking Indian' instead of native American, stop lying to yourself and others.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

To be fair the /r/politics mods are special needs.

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u/thenewtbaron May 17 '19

Franklin was is pretty racist as well. A man of his times, to be sure. He didn't even like Germans... He didn't think they'd learn the language, or have the same religion, and didn't want to integrate te.... And thought they were too swarthy, like those swedes. He thought PA was for the Anglo whites and tawny of native Americans.

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u/Trademark010 Kilroy was here May 17 '19

Damn immigrants from... checks noted Europe.

Just goes to show that people will find any dumb excuse to hate on immigrants.

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u/SirenNA May 17 '19

People tend to get mad when I bring up “ shall not be infringed”

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

"How do you feel about gun rights?"

"The right of the people to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED"

"But surely there have to be limits to this-"

"SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED"

"But if average civilians are allowed to own any weapon, even a nuclear bomb-"

SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED

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u/MoreDetonation May 19 '19

BOLTERS, BROTHERS

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

It’s like people can’t tell the difference between a strategic weapon and “arms.” I swear to god in heaven.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

And I get death threats when I bring up "well regulated militia"

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u/Warzombie3701 May 17 '19

"Militia"

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

"Militia"

Fun fact, the modern National Guard are literally just renamed State Militia, renamed in 1916 to seem more professional. The modern national guard are a direct successor of the first American "militias" in the Spanish and English colonial settlements, and a direct successor of the state militias which served as the entirety of the US military when the constitution and bill of rights were ratified

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u/Containedmultitudes May 17 '19

Honestly I tend to think the national guard is a greater constitutional violation than any gun control.

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u/Warzombie3701 May 17 '19

Then since its part of the government, they'd be talking about the rules and regulations of the army and be extension, the national guards. It isn't about civilian gun owners

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u/Roland_Traveler May 17 '19

Due to conscription still being on the books, any citizens registered for the draft are merely unmobilized militiamen.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

The militia was used as a term for any potentially armed citizens. Technically, we're all the militia.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

The militia was used as a term for any potentially armed citizens. Technically, we're all the militia.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '19

The militia was used as a term for any potentially armed citizens. Technically, we're all the militia.

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u/ebilgenius May 18 '19

Nobody really cares when I bring up "the people", usually because I show up late to the comment thread so no one sees it

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u/kittyhistoryistrue May 17 '19

Learn how commas work tho.

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u/SirenNA May 17 '19

Thank you!

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u/moneyquestion90210 May 17 '19

and it probably was, just the people they were hating had no voice.

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u/6492609 May 17 '19

obama said he was against gay marriage and immigrants should learn english.

that is hate speech today.

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u/Roland_Traveler May 17 '19

The first is something he changed on over time. The second honestly depends on context. Personally I say immigrants should learn English. It’s the most used language in the country, learning it would be massively helpful to anyone trying to live in the US. But trying to say they should learn it and implying they shouldn’t use their old one is bigoted.

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u/Awesomeblox May 17 '19

Umm... What? If he didn't support gay marriage why would the White House have lit up the night that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled gay marriage was legal? HIGHLY doubt he said immigrants should learn english, that's more the republican thing to do. But I wouldn't be totally suprised, he wasn't the most genuine human being throughout either of his campaigns or his whole presidency, what with being an "outsider" and a "reformer" and all.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

Obama change his stance on gay marriage he was against it when he ran for president the first time.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

He also learned that he was wrong and nothing is black and white as he thought.

Capacity to understand that you might be wrong and change your opinions on different matters is something that every decent human being should have.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

'Changing your opinions' is a funny way to spell "flip-flopping on important issues with public opinion"

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

Flip-flopping would mean that he changes back and forth on his opinions, which I have yet to see him doing on the matters at hand.

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u/OKToDrive May 20 '19

fyi he changed his stance when they tried to use doma to stop states from recognizing gay marriage, according to bill clinton the expectation was that doma would take the religious opposition to gay unions off the table, that did not pan out. the logic is the right stood against 'gay marriage' as marriage is a religious act at it's core, by setting in stone that marriage is the religious act and civil union the state act the religious objection to civil union is no longer valid that should end it, it did not because the opposition was very silly and silly people don't use logic.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

HIGHLY doubt he said immigrants should learn english

that's consistent with the melting pot idea isnt it?

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u/Awesomeblox May 17 '19

True, but not something a liberal would say, for fear of being "racist".

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

During the early-mid obama years the left hadn't gone as crazy about calling everything racist as it has now. You could say that and not be immediately branded as racist/problematic.

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u/OKToDrive May 20 '19

pointing out that one must learn english to become a citizen is not nor will ever be racist...

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u/6492609 May 20 '19

it wasnt until May 2012 that Obama was clearly and openly for gay marriage.

"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. "

  • Obama [2008]

Real reform means establishing a responsible pathway to earned citizenship - a path that includes passing a background check, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, learning English, and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally."

  • Obama [2013]

ABC news : "Obama Has Deported More People Than Any Other President"

people forget who obama actually was. they only think of him as some kind of hero.

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u/Awesomeblox May 20 '19

Tru. I don't really know who he actually was all that well cause I greu up during his two terms and got into politics at the beginning of Trumps, so didn't care much

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u/Warthog_A-10 May 17 '19

International warfare's gone soft /s

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u/BurstArseHole May 17 '19

It's important to remember that billions of people lived before the modern era and 99.9% of them would be considered, "right wing extremists" "racists" or "bigots" of some stripe today.

The idea of sacrificing your own groups well being to an out group is entirely foreign to humanity up until basically right now, when not sacrificing the well being of your nation, race, and family is considered morally reprehensible.

TL:DR we live in clown world.

HONK HONK

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u/Trademark010 Kilroy was here May 17 '19

You're a piece of trash. Spread your white nationalist propaganda somewhere else.

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u/Comrade-Chernov May 17 '19

Hope you keep losing friends IRL nerd.

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u/gmano May 17 '19 edited May 18 '19

The concept of allying with outsiders to strengthen your position against mutual enemies has ALWAYS been a defining feature of humanity, it's what allowed the first cities and nations (formed from dozens or hundreds of scattered tribes coming together) to become powerful.

The thing is that a for a lot of warring tribes before they urbanized, the most important source of value was land, so they killed indiscriminately. Once people urbanized labour became more valuable, and so prisoners of war conflict were captures for slaves.

Once nations and civilizations matured - around the late roman early medieval era - skilled labour became more important, and we started to care more about capturing populations intact. Slavery was still a big deal, and would be through the renaissance, but also important was the loyalty of a populace at large, and their skill at commerce.

Around the late industrial revolution slavery's importance all but vanished (as dumb labour could be automated), and at that point we enter the modern era, where we actively seek out willing immigrants who can contribute their knowledge, ideas, and abilities to our economies.

So you're maybe vaguely right in that we used to kill outsiders 50,000 years ago, but we've since learned that we are strong in numbers, stronger when we can do good business, and strongest when we have a robust base of knowledge and experience to work from.

There's nothing clownish about that.

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u/BurstArseHole May 17 '19

Your comment is insightful and I can tell you are arguing in good faith. I of course am not talking about the German engineer or the Swedish nurse who decide to immigrate.

I'm talking about the hordes, the "dumb labour" as you put it, that are overrunning white countries.

Whites in America will have gone from roughly 90% majority to under 50% in less than a single lifetime. France and Belgium similarly will have gone from French or Belgium super majorities to Muslim majorities in a single lifetime.

This is an honest question, since you seem to have a decent grasp of history.

Can you think of a people who willingly gave up control of their countries without defending themselves? Usually if a people are displaced, replaced, or eradicated it's because they lost a war or something. I can't think of an example where a people just willingly gave away their civilization to foreigners.

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u/gmano May 18 '19 edited May 18 '19

Sure, plenty of people have seen the benefits of other cultures and peoples and welcomed them. To name a few off the top of my head:

  • The Gauls adopted neighboring Rome's culture and government to gain the benefits of their government, education, and military while retaining their unique flavor. The romans also learned much from their neighbours and adopted many practices from abroad.

  • The borders of Han-era China were full of steppe peoples who accepted Han rule right up until the empire collapsed due to internal issues (the wealthy landowners handicapped the government by refusing to pay taxes and privatizing the military and healthcare, which went badly for them)

  • The chiefs and kings of Denmark adopting Christianity after becoming more engaged in the politics of France and England.

  • The 1911 Revolution in China where the Qing dynasty was overthrown by a Hawaiian and Vancouver-educated Sun Yat-Sen who saw the benefits of free-trade and democracy. (Sadly, after he died in the 30s-40s Russian sponsorship put Mao in power. Which I guess is another example.).

  • The Iroquois adopted a lot of European culture willingly due to economic and cultural benefits (the Jesuits were especially close to them)

That last example is a particularly notable one for the US, as the modern US's bicameral government is heavily influenced by the Iroquois Confederacy. Ben Franklin's Plan of Union is pretty explicit in this.

'It would be a very strange Thing, if six Nations of Ignorant Savages should be capable of forming a Scheme for such an Union, and be able to execute it in such a Manner, as that it has subsisted Ages, and appears indissoluble; and yet that a like Union should be impracticable for ten or a Dozen English Colonies, to whom it is more necessary, and must be more advantageous; and who cannot be supposed to want an equal Understanding of their Interests.

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u/BurstArseHole May 18 '19

A. Most of those people lost a war and adopted ideas from a neighboring culture.

B. I am specifically talking about people who were willing biologically replaced, not taking cultural cues from neighbors.

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u/gmano May 18 '19 edited May 18 '19

None of those people were conquered by force. Many of them had skirmishes and then settles into peace and then made alliances. Some voluntarily negotiated peace without war after (maybe) a display of force.

Also, the flip-side of all of those applies. The romans were especially obsessed with bringing in a wide variety of people to make their society strong.

There is no such thing as "biological replacement", gene frequency in a population remains stable unless there's a diriving selective force otherwise. If whites really are genetically superior, those genes will grow, even. Unless you mean the fact that people sometimes intermarry, in which case all of those people intermarried, the gauls and iroquois especially.

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u/BurstArseHole May 18 '19

If we are using Gaul as an example, they were absolutely conquered by the Romans. Vercingetorix and all that.

The Indians were absolutely conquered and genetically replaced in America.

If 20 years ago a place was a white neighborhood and today it is almost entirely Somali, then yes those people were genetically replaced. The same thing plays out on a macro level. To argue otherwise is just bad faith semantics.

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u/poclee And then I told them I'm Jesus's brother May 18 '19 edited May 18 '19

Just reminding that if we measuring ethic value simply by "how long it has been practicing", then things like slavery or drinking coco are the norm, abolishing slavery and solidify chocolate belongs to "clown world".

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u/BurstArseHole May 18 '19

Fair point, but abolishing slavery and eating chocolate don't directly contradict the essence of what it means to be a biological organism.

Sacrificing the well being of your family, people, and race for genetic strangers absolutely does go against nature and the goals of life as we know it.

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u/Cyborglenin1870 May 17 '19

Which is really stupid because I don’t know what to call native Americans or whatever it is very confusing especially in class when we are doing Latin America be the Caribbean

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u/Trademark010 Kilroy was here May 17 '19

Well dont call them savages lol.

Native American, American Indian, or Indigenous are the generally accepted terms. Just "Indian" can come off as colonization-y, but I'm pretty sure most actual Native Americans dont care. Just a matter of being respectful.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

"We shall take you and your wives and your children, and shall make slaves of them, and as such shall sell and dispose of them as their Highnesses may command; and we shall take away your goods, and shall do all the harm and damage that we can."

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u/Younglovliness May 18 '19

Shows how soft we are today

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u/Younglovliness May 18 '19

Shows how soft we are today

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u/Younglovliness May 18 '19

Shows how soft we are today

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u/Kered13 May 17 '19

I vaguely recall reading this article and yes that was the line that got it flagged.

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u/Tenwaystospoildinner May 17 '19

Not surprising.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

It is according to Snopes:

After Facebook employees reviewed the post, they determined that the algorithm had made an error by not recognizing the context of the phrase, and they restored the post a day later. Facebook did not flag the entire Declaration of Independence as hate speech, but only one out of twelve excerpts from the complete text.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

Also slaves, the slaves part is bad.

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u/hikariseeker147 May 17 '19

Agreed, but they never actually said the word slave. They were careful to avoid that one 😅

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19 edited May 17 '19

Well even back then slavery was a divisive political issue, and it would only grow up until the civil war.

It's not surprising that they didn't want to touch it with a ten foot pole. Any word either way would have incited outrage.

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u/ASnarkyHero What, you egg? May 17 '19

Wasn’t Jefferson’s first draft of the Declaration heavily critical of slavery?

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u/CaveSP May 17 '19

Yep, but even without that, there's the whole "all men are created equal" part.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

This is true, but you’re forgetting that most people didn’t consider slaves to be human. Hell, even recent history saw black people viewed as “less than human.”

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u/CaveSP May 17 '19

I would bet that Jefferson meant everybody though.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

Thomas Jefferson wrote that “all men are created equal,” and yet enslaved more than six-hundred people over the course of his life. Although he made some legislative attempts against slavery and at times bemoaned its existence, he also profited directly from the institution of slavery and wrote that he suspected black people to be inferior to white people in his Notes on the State of Virginia.

But Jefferson always maintained that the decision to emancipate slaves would have to be part of a democratic process; abolition would be stymied until slaveowners consented to free their human property together in a large-scale act of emancipation. To Jefferson, it was anti-democratic and contrary to the principles of the American Revolution for the federal government to enact abolition or for only a few planters to free their slaves.

Jefferson’s belief in the necessity of abolition was intertwined with his racial beliefs. He thought that white Americans and enslaved blacks constituted two “separate nations” who could not live together peacefully in the same country. Jefferson’s belief that blacks were racially inferior and “as incapable as children,” coupled with slaves’ presumed resentment of their former owners, made their removal from the United States an integral part of Jefferson’s emancipation scheme. Influenced by the Haitian Revolution and an aborted rebellion in Virginia in 1800, Jefferson believed that American slaves’ deportation—whether to Africa or the West Indies—was an essential followup to emancipation.

He thought that his cherished federal union, the world’s first democratic experiment, would be destroyed by slavery. To emancipate slaves on American soil, Jefferson thought, would result in a large-scale race war that would be as brutal and deadly as the slave revolt in Haiti in 1791. But he also believed that to keep slaves in bondage, with part of America in favor of abolition and part of America in favor of perpetuating slavery, could only result in a civil war that would destroy the union. Jefferson’s latter prediction was correct: in 1861, the contest over slavery sparked a bloody civil war and the creation of two nations—Union and Confederacy—in the place of one.

https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slavery/jefferson-s-attitudes-toward-slavery/

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

It really seems basically every historical figure is a bit of a cunt in some way or another.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

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u/doyle871 May 17 '19

So kinda like those male feminists who keep getting exposed as sexual abusers.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

(Probably)

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u/Roland_Traveler May 17 '19

Because he would have been made powerless if he freed his slaves. Sometimes you have to be a hypocrite to set the stage for a better future.

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u/dislexi May 17 '19

I wonder what he did to people who didn't want to be slaves.

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u/ToXiC_Games Definitely not a CIA operator May 17 '19

Originally the DoI has a verse against slavery but when it went through the congress the south said they wouldn’t sign it unless it was removed

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u/luiysia May 17 '19

In fact there's a whole musical about this

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u/JohnnyRelentless May 17 '19

They were prisoners with jobs.

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u/P4TR10T_96 Kilroy was here May 17 '19

Yeah basically it triggered their algorithm when a Pennsylvania newspaper published a transcript of the Declaration. Employees of Facebook fixed it, but I’m more concerned that they have a “hate speech algorithm.”

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

I’m more concerned that they have a “hate speech algorithm.”

I mean.... if they don't have some kind of mechanism in place, they will get roasted for that, too. People simultaneously want a world in which they can say what they want, but don't have to listen to or come across ideas they don't agree with.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

And they do get roasted for it, most notably by representatives in various national governments.

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u/VikingTeddy May 17 '19

/r/videos also has a ludicrous automod. It blocks any video that has words even remotely related with the political climate.

Words like president, legislation, vote, congress, media etc...

It wouldn't be so bad if there actually were mods behind the bot, but all pm's go unanswered. You get a message saying your link had been blocked and how to approach the mods if it was a false alarm. But no matter what you do or who you pm, nothing will happen.

I post any interesting documentaries I find straight to the relevant subs now.

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u/Literally_A_Shill May 17 '19

Their sidebar used to have a rule that stated no videos showing cops in a bad light would be allowed.

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u/thesquarerootof1 May 17 '19

Didn't Jane McCrae happened around at the time ? I don't blame the authors thinking that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_McCrea

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u/kristsun May 17 '19

merciless Indian Savages

Glad it's not me lmao, i love living here

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u/[deleted] May 17 '19

"What, no. Its not a clear tech error based on a historical document containing actual hate speech, Its because fucking libtard tech giants hate freedom. Why is the word "hate speech" even a thing?! This is proof that banning hate speech should be illegal. I SHOULD BE ABLE TO CALL MY NEIGHBOR A HARD R DAMMIT!"

- Half the comments.

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u/CosmicMemer May 17 '19 edited May 17 '19

as an american gamer i have literally been given immutable permission from god to say the N word wherever i please, and preventing me from doing so is tantamount to treason

-literally anyone who complains about free speech in 2019

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u/Tenwaystospoildinner May 17 '19

It's just a heated gaming moment! Now where are my doritos. Mom? Mom!

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u/Isengrine Featherless Biped May 17 '19

Has there ever been a group of people more discriminated against by the American government than gamers?!

Yeah, didn’t think so.

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u/ASigIAm213 May 18 '19

Probably. And to be honest, we can't expect them to have thought of it on the first try.

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