Conor Friedersdorf

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@LeilLikeNeil I disagree. Part of the foundation? That strikes me as a defensible metaphor. “The” foundation? What makes that aspect exclusively the foundation as opposed to all the others? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 21, 2019 Hibernated

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@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

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@LeilLikeNeil I find this logic unsatisfying because one could as easily revert to a prior step and locate "the" foundation there. Without oceangoing vessels, navigation, and monarchies to finance expeditions to the Americas there would have been no opportunity to steal the land... (e.g.) — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 21, 2019 Hibernated