Re: The Continuous Amnesia Issue

On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 16:50:44 -0700, Dave Yeo wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 22:05:31 -0700, Dave Yeo wrote:
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Didn't your declaration of independence start out with all men are
equal?

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Remember, the authors of that were mostly slave owners. By “men” they
meant “white men”. They didn’t mean “nonwhites” and they didn’t mean
“women”.
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It was a “democracy” in the original, Athenian sense. Not the way it is
understood in actual democracies these days.
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You mean where slaves had rights, a course to citizenship and could buy
their freedom, as well being protected from violence by the State? Also
not a racial thing.

OK, the Dumbfuckistani Founding Fathers missed that bit. ;)