Because it contains some.https://twitter.com/Klangable/status/1014968983936696320 …
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There should be an official government statement apologizing for and renouncing this part of the declaration.
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We still need to make official apologies for… lots of things.
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Of course
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My understanding of this ugly sentence is Jefferson is accusing the English of hiring Native American mercenaries to attack rebels/colonists, knowing full well that the mercenaries would kill entire families. IIRC there’s debate whether this claim was “fake news,” as it were. 1/2
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IMO, Jefferson here deliberately uses hateful language to enflame the passions of the reader. This is not a case of “The 18th Century was different.” Jefferson is playing to the negative stereotype he knows exists to energize colonists against his political enemy. Sound familiar?
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