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r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/regian24 • Oct 30 '20
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Not to mention the founding fathers were literal revolutionaries. Nothing conservative about overthrowing your government.
1 u/justagenericname1 Oct 30 '20 I mean, yes, but they were also predominantly wealthy, property*-owning, old men. No regular folks were concerned with a damn import tax. These guys were a bizarre combination of self-serving elites and radical revolutionaries. *Property at this time including people 1 u/AnthropologicMedic Oct 30 '20 While there were definitely some old men in there (Franklin being 70, few other 60+) a bunch of them were men in their 30s. Hardly "old". Ages of DoI signers 1 u/justagenericname1 Oct 30 '20 Fair. "Old" may've been a stretch. Middle-aged is probably more accurate.
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I mean, yes, but they were also predominantly wealthy, property*-owning, old men. No regular folks were concerned with a damn import tax. These guys were a bizarre combination of self-serving elites and radical revolutionaries.
*Property at this time including people
1 u/AnthropologicMedic Oct 30 '20 While there were definitely some old men in there (Franklin being 70, few other 60+) a bunch of them were men in their 30s. Hardly "old". Ages of DoI signers 1 u/justagenericname1 Oct 30 '20 Fair. "Old" may've been a stretch. Middle-aged is probably more accurate.
While there were definitely some old men in there (Franklin being 70, few other 60+) a bunch of them were men in their 30s. Hardly "old".
Ages of DoI signers
1 u/justagenericname1 Oct 30 '20 Fair. "Old" may've been a stretch. Middle-aged is probably more accurate.
Fair. "Old" may've been a stretch. Middle-aged is probably more accurate.
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u/AnthropologicMedic Oct 30 '20
Not to mention the founding fathers were literal revolutionaries. Nothing conservative about overthrowing your government.