These are the same type of people who constantly lionize george washington
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Which John Brown?
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He of Harper's Ferry fame
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Why wasn’t he a progressive?
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If someone says 'what's progressivism all about?', pointing to John Brown would be seriously unhelpful. Nevertheless he was motivated by both progressivism, by the standards of the day, and evangelicalism, by the standards of the day.
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"technically correct but missing the larger point" is kind of Buttigieg's whole thing, no?
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Counterpoint: John brown should be on the one dollar bill
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I think that’s unambiguously true. Even if Brown’s legacy is complicated it’s much less morally fraught than George Washington’s.
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How do we know that was all that was said?
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