• agent_nycto@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Nah, I liked how I phrased it. We’ve been failing to uphold our ideals since the beginning, even Thomas Jefferson was a hypocrite who hated slavery but sure as hell did a lot of it.

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      31 minutes ago

      Jefferson didn’t hate slavery, he even pledged support for France against Haiti’s slave rebellion.