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minus-squareGarfieldYaoi [he/him]hexbear26·11 months agoI 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 is today. link
minus-squareGivingEuropeASpook@lemm.eehexbear32·11 months agoYeah didn't Paine say something about how the slaves would be justified to kill their masters? linkfedilink
minus-squaremacabretthexbear19·edit-211 months agoPaine was the original American poster. I was always taught the rest of the "founding fathers" hated him lol link
minus-squareGivingEuropeASpook@lemm.eehexbear19·11 months agoAbsolutely. They liked that he was a good propagandist but didn't like that it wasn't all just propaganda for him. linkfedilink
minus-squarePM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]hexbear24·11 months agoThey tried their hardest to let Paine get executed in France during the Revolution link
minus-squareUnicodeHamSic [he/him]hexbear18·11 months agoFranklin was still a pretty terrible person by any reasonable standard. He just preferred being a weird sex guy over being a pillaging kinda guy. link
minus-squarepisstoria [he/him]hexbear8·11 months agoConsidering what Ben Franklin had to say about the whiteness of Germans, he was definitely a competitive racist all around. link
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
is today.
Yeah didn't Paine say something about how the slaves would be justified to kill their masters?
Paine was the original American poster. I was always taught the rest of the "founding fathers" hated him lol
Absolutely. They liked that he was a good propagandist but didn't like that it wasn't all just propaganda for him.
They tried their hardest to let Paine get executed in France during the Revolution
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.
The original Carl Diggler
Considering what Ben Franklin had to say about the whiteness of Germans, he was definitely a competitive racist all around.