George Washington was cartoonishly evil
(CW: drawn depiction of a slaved being whipped, and a dog being hanged)
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Some of them had extraordinarily racist beliefs for their time
Benjamin Franklin was vocally abolitionist, for what it's worth.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Address_to_the_Public
The founding fathers did some good things, but more bad things. The fact that they are so venerated, is due to deliberate distortions and omissions of their historical biographies in US schools.
He was protected from rascism by being a sex guy. He was too busy fuckin' and suckin' to be hatin'
He was also an asshole. That is unrealted.
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Weird, maybe we should collectively stop giving a shit about what they wanted since it's clearly bad.
But I was told they believe all men* were created equal!
*Except black people, and poor people, and most racial minorities really, and religious minorities, and women...
Maybe we should've seen the signs when we found out about his plantation.
The least racist founder I can think of was still really racist.
Benjamin Rush thought you shouldn’t treat Black people bad, but only because they were actually white people with a disease that made them black that he thought could potentially be cured.New ideas don't emerge out of nothing, and people with new ideas don't start by having wholly adopted those ideas. It takes time to work out the contradictions and the hypocrisy. And some get there sooner than others. Some never get there at all.
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