Current Events > Isn't odd how we are asked to venerate slavers

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VFrench1962 posted...

No, the message is dont be naive to how this country was built and continues to be built - because you have benefited from it. Instead see the nuance of every person differently, in comparison to the paradigm of their time

Who isn't seeing the nuance?

Who is asking you to do these things TC?

DipDipDiver posted...

I hear he was a lousy tipper

Pretty sure he gave his buddies super powers so nah

garan posted...

I'm saying it's disingenuous to act like this is a thing that only relates to American presidents.

No one acted like that.

You are the disingenous one.

Wow

Wow

Holy.
Mooooly

emblem-man posted...

Who isn't seeing the nuance?

read the first 40 posts of the topic, Im not your teacher or father and couldnt care less.

But talking about slaves is woke and dangerous to our democracy

Odd double standard

VFrench1962 posted...

read the first 40 posts of the topic, Im not your teacher or father and couldnt care less.

I have. And again, I ask the same question

VFrench: doesn't care enough to explain what he means, does care enough to keep posting in this topic.

CyricZ posted...

VFrench: doesn't care enough to explain what he means, does care enough to keep posting in this topic.

Sometimes it's just really important that someone mansplain the benefits of slavery on the Internet.

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There's a lot of people who are dissatisfied with how Al Franken was handled it's not really a strange opinion to have. He doesn't seem to actually keep current with politics despite it being his dominant personality. He didn't seem to know Sinema left the democratic party and seems oblivious that Feinstein is perpetually absent from her job which is blocking Biden's judicial appointments.

garan posted...

I'm saying it's disingenuous to act like this is a thing that only relates to American presidents.

We should stop putting human beings on pedestals, from Mother Theresa to MLK Jr. And I LOVE MLK Jr.'s ideas, but he's a great example of what happens when someone is transformed into some type of paragon of peace rather than a real person. His actual views and acts get filtered out, but not just randomly, it's done for political purposes.

It's not just presidents. I don't like any individual person that much for them to qualify as a "hero" or beyond criticism. And that's not edgelordism, or nihilism, I have strong beliefs and some people were much closer to "ideal" than others, but no one was particularly close.