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  • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    The founding fathers are so over the top evil that if one were to write a fictional analog of them into a sci-fi or fantasy setting people would complain that it's too grimdark and unrealistic

    They were total irredeemable monsters and there really isn't any nuance to be found in slavers and pedos like them

    • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I will only provide two possible exceptions:

      Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin. Perhaps if they were the first and second presidents, maybe socially we'd be around where kkkanada is today.

        • macabrett
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          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Paine was the original American poster. I was always taught the rest of the "founding fathers" hated him lol

      • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Franklin was still a pretty terrible person by any reasonable standard. He just preferred being a weird sex guy over being a pillaging kinda guy.

      • pisstoria [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Considering what Ben Franklin had to say about the whiteness of Germans, he was definitely a competitive racist all around.

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      "But they wrote fancy words."

      So did Lovecraft and he actually recanted his shit opinions late in life. No excuses shall be tolerated for the dead that could have done better while living.