Thomas Jefferson isn't being held accountable for shit.
People's hard-on for statuary is this purely reactionary nostalgia for a fake history they were told to care about in grade school. This 11th hour rebranding of institutions isn't going to make anyone materially better off. It's just going to be the next front in the culture wars that make everyone worse.
"Holding people accountable for literally owning other human beings? Now that's where I draw the line bucko!"
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Thomas Jefferson isn't being held accountable for shit.
People's hard-on for statuary is this purely reactionary nostalgia for a fake history they were told to care about in grade school. This 11th hour rebranding of institutions isn't going to make anyone materially better off. It's just going to be the next front in the culture wars that make everyone worse.