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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Oct 2021

    Jeet Heer Retweeted John Ganz

    This is definitely the funniest aspect of the current Jefferson wars, the conservative celebration of the man who admired the French revolution, had a heavily shredded Bible & was a stout Deist.https://twitter.com/lionel_trolling/status/1454812902704222215 …

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    John Ganz @lionel_trolling
    .@WilliamHogeland's piece on the removal of the Jefferson reminds me that T.J. was an insane Jacobin who thought the terror was necessary and probably would've loved seeing statues being torn down https://twitter.com/lionel_trolling/status/1154825595802607616 …
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      1. Joe Kearns‏ @JoeKearns_PSU 31 Oct 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Pretty consistent with the conservative celebration of the previous President who had numerous mistresses, multiple divorces, paid for abortions, and quoted "Two Corinthians."

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      1. grid flay‏ @gridflay 31 Oct 2021
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        Modern conservatives would overlook all of his Humanist foibles and embrace the "enslaving people" parts

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      1. Andrew Ferguson‏ @epiktistes 31 Oct 2021
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        I still think it’s funnier that Jefferson’s self-appointed champions are people like Chip Roy, invariably the least intellectually curious people in public life

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      1. Big Bear‏ @BradBarrett1 31 Oct 2021
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        His Bible had all the miracles cut out. Like Jesus raising from the dead. Kinda central to Christianity doncha think?

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      1. Old North Blandings‏ @OBlandings 31 Oct 2021
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        As AGR might say, the contradictions in him are precisely what make him a fascinating figure to study. And I think those contradictions call us to look deeper than binary hero/villain historical assessments.

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Oct 2021
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        I'd say the guy who advocated Indigenous genocide, impregnated a 14 year old and kept his children as slaves was a jerk.

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      1. Oppressed Mike Gundy‏ @EatBaeLove 31 Oct 2021
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        Because he was ardently anti-majoritarian and a rural chauvinist in the classic sense of the term. All that actually matters in the current political context

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      1. Phil Stewart‏ @Retinalia 31 Oct 2021
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        🤔.o0 (must not be the French Revolution & the mass executions they are attracted to . . . must not be THAT . . . whatever could be going ON? )

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      1. PunPun  🇺🇸  🇪🇺‏ @MikeGreger2 5 Nov 2021
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        I "celebrate" Jefferson (if that means that I believe he's an essential part of this country's history and identity, whose statues shouldn't come down) and some of my favorite parts about him are that he was so anti-religion and an Enlightenment thinker.

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