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  • uralsolo
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    1 year ago

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    • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      it's true, he really said it

      CW: Benjamin Franklin being racist against everybody except anglos and speculating that space aliens would want to see more white people

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      • tripartitegraph [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        He also had a quote that I read in Losurso’s Liberalism where he wrote to a doctor and basically said “aren’t you ashamed that you save all these people who don’t deserve it?”

        • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          I think it was down to the fact that most Swedes were peasants back then so were tanned from working outside in the sun

          One of the clearest examples of how massively stupid the concept of "whiteness" is

      • VILenin [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Did Ben Racism ever actually go to any of these places? Curious how you would distinguish a German from a Brit purely on the basis of appearance

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          He traveled to Europe, but the Germans he's talking about there were probably the Pennsylvania "Palatine Boor" farmers, who were from around the Rhine Valley. What he really means is that you can visibly distinguish a poor farmer from a white upper class city dweller based on complexion.

          He also has a political motivation here to exclude Germans and Swedes from whiteness because Franklin wanted a purely Anglo America since he was racist as heck

          • VILenin [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            You’re telling me supergenius founding father Franklin (PBUH) couldn’t tell the difference between dirt and having dark skin?

            shocked-pikachu

            • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              I dunno if you're being sarcastic but if not there used to be a stark divide between pale wealthier white people (indoors) and poorer tanned white people (outdoors). Having a tan put you in a lower caste. Apparently this was such a noticeable thing you could visibly tell which people in Pennsylvania were German or English

              • VILenin [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                That’s not necessarily an ethnic difference. I’m sure if you kept the Germans indoors 23 hours a day they wouldn’t be “swarthy”.

                Seems more like a class divide to me

                • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  yes but he gets to decide how he's racist and if anyone could make him believe in only rational things he wouldn't be racist

      • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        beyond the racism, does this greyhound, bifocal ass wearing motherfucker think that light acts like water and fills available volume not taken up by the dark? or that removing the woods would somehow make the earth's surface substantially more reflective?

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          I think he is making reference to leaves and bark often being darker than grass.

      • UlyssesT
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