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0 pointsadd-sub-mul-div27d ago0 comments

Before passing judgment consider that while you may have the privilege of posting from a country that's never had to fight for relief from tyranny, that's not necessarily the case for others.

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JumpCrisscross27d ago

> that's not necessarily the case for others

Totally agree. I’m speaking to cases in America. If you’re in a rich country broadly at peace with competitive elections to any degree, and you’re choosing violence, you should vacation to e.g. Burma or Sudan or Libya or Ethiopia and see the cost of the violence you’re glorifying.

lesuorac27d ago

Tyranny of a bunch of rich white men having to pay taxes lol.

There's a reason the founding fathers all had slaves; they weren't the common folk.

cucumber373284227d ago

>There's a reason the founding fathers all had slaves; they weren't the common folk.

Ah, yes. All Slaveholders. I once toured John Adam's former plantation. It's expansive. Really puts Monticello to shame.

(the joke here being that John Adams was a practicing lawyer in state that didn't even have slavery).

collingreen27d ago

Super good joke.

Since your point seems to be that not all the founding fathers parent was referring to were actually slave owners do you have a claim for a rough ratio? I think that would be interesting and would be a more informative thing regardless of where on the scale it lands from "everybody but Adams" all the way up to "only a big names like Washington, Jefferson".

cucumber373284226d ago

To a first order approximation half the founders were from New England (no slavery) and the other half were from Virginia (no realistic chance of being important/rich enough to be a signatory without owning slaves). So call it 50-50

abenga27d ago

> a country that's never had to fight for relief from tyranny

Do you have an example of such a country?

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