Conor Friedersdorf

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@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

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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

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@LeilLikeNeil I agree. Do you agree, in turn, that it happened w and couldn’t have happened without English common law and the study of democracy and republicanism in antiquity? And that by your formulation that would make America dissonantly “founded on” both slavery and republican democracy? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 21, 2019 Hibernated