Conor Friedersdorf

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@dropoutnation @jbenmenachem that the anti-slavery faction does nothing to mitigate the moral atrocity perpetrated by the pro-slavery faction, but that the fact of heated disputes and uneasy compromises between the two complicates any claim to call "slavery" or "liberty" the ideology of the founding — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 21, 2019 Hibernated

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@dropoutnation @jbenmenachem You write that racism was "the fuel of its economy." I say it was "a" fuel. You write it was "the" governing creed. I say it was a governing creed. You adeptly sketched the pro-slavery faction at the Founding, but not the anti-slavery faction. It seems to me — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 21, 2019 Hibernated

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@dropoutnation @jbenmenachem Or again, one could plumb the history of the period for all the advocates of democracy or republicanism... and again for all the racist antagonism to democracy... and see that America was "founded on" lots of contradictory forces, factions, and resolutions — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 21, 2019 Hibernated