Nothing, just a psychopathic orange malignant narcissist racist rapist Nazi pig who has gone completely insane from all of the evil that has consumed him.
They were slave holders & slaughtered indigenous people but they were also men who weirdly believed in the ideals of liberalism & proclaimed all humans ( men) to be equal. We can reject the men but the spirit of that idea is what we should hold onto since it's an idea predates them.
And before you say you don’t uphold slavery or racism, etc, when you said to “reject the men,” you literally did just that. To say forget about the men but it’s the spirit of the ideas that are important, it doesn’t work that way. Their spirit is their spirit, and they were racist hypocrites.
"Reject the men" = Condemn them; hold them accountable; tell the truth about their actions regarding racism & slavery rather than putting them on a pedestal.
But ideals of liberalism & liberal open society that they articulated predates them & it's liberalism that gives me equal rights today...
This is not people and a their art or people and their skill. If they were artists who did a painting and you said behavior aside, fine. But one can’t be liberal and not liberate ALL. So their ideals are MOOT. Just say you love liberal values but trying to justify those values based on racist wyte …
isn’t a flex. It doesn’t say what you think it says. It’s okay to believe in values and to believe in your country but trying to put those values on folks who clearly didn’t fully honor them looks very non-ally like. And that’s being nice about it.
No one who claims all men to be equal would own another man. *sigh* You all will uphold each other in the worst to make a point which is hypocritical of itself. This is exactly why we have what we have in office now.
I can picture Tom Wilkerson as Benjamin Franklin from John Adams (HBO miniseries) wondering to adams and Jefferson at a tavern table, “Precisely how is it that he’s not been dragged from the white house by a mob yet? People are such curious things.”
And all the tech bros falling in line Russia style. Turns out that didn’t go well for them in Russia. Don’t dare to criticize the emperor or you better stay away from balconies.
The tyranny of the legislature is really the danger most to be feared, and will continue to be so for many years to come. The tyranny of the executive power will come in its turn, but at a more distant period.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Democracy in America
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“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.” (John Adams)
But ideals of liberalism & liberal open society that they articulated predates them & it's liberalism that gives me equal rights today...
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The Second American Revolution has begun.
We are on our own.
“The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude.
― Thomas Jefferson, Democracy in America
It is up to us We the people to unite and defend OUR COUNTRY!🦋🇺🇸💙