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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Apr 2019

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Robin Hanson

    1. Most people can see the obvious problems with this, but worth noting that insidious thing here is that in defining Hemings etc. as "slaves who agreed to be slaves" (or more Freudenly as "salves") goal is to shift moral onus from slave-owners to enslaved.https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1122269282539274240 …

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    Robin HansonVerified account @robinhanson
    There should be a word for slaves who agreed to be salves, w/o extortion or other illegitimate pressures. E.g. Sally Hemings & brother made deals w/ Jefferson. Different word could highlight its lower moral culpability.
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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Apr 2019

        2. Hanson is saying that if we think of Hemings as someone who "made deals w/Jefferson" it would "lower moral culpability." but in fact it merely shifts moral culpability: Jefferson is partly exonerated & Hemings is more guilty (of making deal to be enslaved.)

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Apr 2019

        3. Many have properly pointed out the absurdity of thinking there was any sort of non-coerced "deal" between a child enslaved at birth and the wealthy Founding father who owned her & her family. There's also Hanson's striking ignorance of how historians grapple with agency

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Apr 2019

        4. A lot of the most productive work on slavery since WWII has grappled with slavery: with trying to see how even within an oppressive system the enslaved resisted, not just in rebellion but other means (slow working, flight, culture).

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      5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Apr 2019

        5. But the tradition of emphasizing slave agency (which really goes back to WEB Du Bois & runs through Leslie Owens & Gutman) never talks about slaves choosing their status -- it's all about resistance within the system not Hanson's individualistic model of deal making.

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Apr 2019

        Because there are lawyers of BS in Hanson's tweet worth unpacking.

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      2. Zzzz...‏ @Zeke512Atx 29 Apr 2019
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        Yeah its called whitewashing and revisionist history, i dont care what anyone calls it, but it needs to be pointed out! 🤘Here to ya🍻

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      3. 武則天/فاطمة بنت محمد الفهرية القرشية‏ @temacube 29 Apr 2019
        Replying to @Zeke512Atx @HeerJeet

        This is just GRU or wannabes watering the trough. We (the non charismatically starstruck left) should show have self control than to mud wrestle a pig.

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      1. Gayle Logan‏ @grammyisabel 29 Apr 2019
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        How can so many be as sick & racist as @robinhanson?

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      1. Diane Rogers Fourny‏ @drfourny 29 Apr 2019
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        This absurd discussion reminds me of Rousseau’s Confessions, end of Bk 2, where J-J finally fesses up to stealing a ribbon, the crime of which he pinned on the poor girl he wanted to give it to and ruined her life.Paul de Man gave a great analysis this act of bad faith.

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