Yes, this is you affirming both that the study of history is useful solely in as much as it reaffirms your ideological priors, not for what it is or what it can teach us about our past, president or future, and that you didn’t read a word before passing judgement. So thanks.
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Nope. But i do appreciate your narrow range of put downs, your inability to defend your position on the merits, and your selective appreciation for the importance of historical study. I’ll enjoy it next time you invoke said history in one of your poorly written legal briefs.
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You’re not my enemy ilya. And there’s absolutely nothing I could say to you that would be more devastating or revealing than you, a self-proclaimed libertarian, proclaiming yourself uninterested in the history of the greatest conflict over liberty this nation has ever known.
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I'm all for examining history. But how did the preposterous claim that the American Revolution was motivated partly by fear that Britain would abolish slavery get past an editor?
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It's not a preposterous claim.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunmore%27s_Proclamation …
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Sorry, deleted a tweet based on misreading the year. My bad.
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I doubt it’s preposterous, but the idea that the British had a moral high ground on issues of how to treat other human beings was weird for the essay to imply.
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The claim is not that the British had the high moral ground but that abolition was taking root in British law (there was a big legal case prior to Revolution) and this influenced events. Again, this is definitely an issue mainstream academic historians argue about.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @CathyYoung63 and
Yeah, I could see that influencing events, although the British Empire sure as hell found some creative workarounds for keeping occupied populations under subjugation after abolition
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