RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 years agoCW: Blue checkmarkshexbear.netimagemessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1imageCW: Blue checkmarkshexbear.netRNAi [he/him]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square2fedilink
minus-squareHumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years ago“They weren’t nearly as stupid and evil as they could have been” seems to be a pretty common defense of the Founding Fathers and I just wanna know why
minus-squareTapirs10 [undecided,she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoMostly because everyone assumes that all white people at the time all supported racism and slavery but people like John Brown and Karl Marx existed. It’s difficult but not impossible to find not racist white people in the 1800s
“They weren’t nearly as stupid and evil as they could have been” seems to be a pretty common defense of the Founding Fathers and I just wanna know why
Mostly because everyone assumes that all white people at the time all supported racism and slavery but people like John Brown and Karl Marx existed. It’s difficult but not impossible to find not racist white people in the 1800s