today I learned that Ulysses s grant was so anti-slavery that he married into a slave holding family and accepted a slave as a gift from his father in law
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Historical figures can be complicated and that's part of the reason I think statues celebrating specific, esp 'mixed' 'great men' are a terrible idea.
I'm just not as anti-statue as most people are in this particular moment. No tears, but not really cheers either There's a deeper issue the left needs to explore at some point: most humans have done bad shit at some point in some area of their lives. Can anyone be admired?
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I feel like even if you're good with statues there are a lot of people way more compatible with modern standards who you can make statues of.
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I'm not talking about slaveholders or statues I'm talking about humanity generally, people suck mostly but sometimes they do great things: what do we do with that? It's not a rhetorical question, but as someone who has done a lot of shitty things it's kind of a personal one
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I feel like this is much more an online problem than in person; and in person people are still exploring exactly how restorative justice etc works in this context, even for some genuinely bad things. So...IDK.
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