Wasn't Virginia strongly pro-independence prior to that?
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As I understand it, that's like saying current Massachusetts is strongly pro-Democratic. It's true, but it's also true that there are many Republicans in MA. In 1775, loyalists, moderates, and patriots were all part of Virginia's politics. (A bunch of them thought Britain
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would win in the end, so there was an incentive to not commit fully to the revolution). Dunmore pushed a lot of Virginia's loyalists and moderates into being patriots. (If I understand/remember it correctly. I studied this years ago.)
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Your thread is still as wrong as it was when you first tweeted it. The thesis of "Common Cause" does not support Hannah Jones's claim in that sentence (one sentence the upshot of which is that the American Revolution was evil to the core).
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Hannah-Jones (sp.!) doesn't say revolution was evil to the core. Far from it, since its push to fulfil ideals of revolution that drove black freedom movements (and other causes). I really feel like you are incapable of reading dispassionately on this topic.
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I know she doesn't argue that. But it's the unmistakable implication of that claim. (Which, admittedly, H-J herself contradicts in the same paragraph.)
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How can a political movement that has the preservation of slavery as one of its principal goals be something other than evil?
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Because like many other human phenomenons it was a mixture of contrary qualities good & bad,
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