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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Nov 2021

    Jeet Heer Retweeted New York Times Books

    I honestly don't see how there is any arguments that constitution doesn't have a pro-slavery component. The only reason to argue otherwise is to a desire for a patriotic mythology about nation's founding.https://twitter.com/nytimesbooks/status/1456384539635355651 …

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    Historians today debate whether the United States Constitution was pro-slavery, and a new book by the Harvard law professor Noah Feldman enters the fray. https://nyti.ms/3jXyqn4 
    3:23 PM - 5 Nov 2021
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      1. Yevgeny Shrago‏ @yevshrag 5 Nov 2021
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        I think a lot of previously smart people have convinced themselves that reestablishing that shared mythology is the only way to avert a collapse into fascism.

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      1. Maier Amsden‏ @maier_amsden 5 Nov 2021
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        Well, there was a bit of anti-slavery virtue signaling, but the result was...

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      1. FreshHotCoffee‏ @FreshHotCoffee2 5 Nov 2021
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        Can I write a very short book about it and just use the original text? You know, an “Originalist”.

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      1. data buzz 1‏ @databuzz1 5 Nov 2021
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        Mr C still allows for compulsory uncompensated labor--so-called "inmate leasing"

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      1. UsuallyAnnoyed‏ @GerryLikesTacos 5 Nov 2021
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        Do the Bible next

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      1. Pronouns in Bio‏ @tomscud 5 Nov 2021
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        What we really need is to hear from the author of “What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation-Building (2004)”

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      1. Colin Chaudhuri‏ @cobra0483 5 Nov 2021
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        Isn’t teaching the 3/5ths compromise a pretty basic component of most history classes? And this is decades ago; it was a pretty banal statement to note “yeah 3/5ths compromise was agreed to so as to placate slave owners”

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      1. Benjamin "Our Book is Free" Daniels  🌈 🏴‏ @_bbdaniels 5 Nov 2021
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        “Patriotic” or “anti-anti-racist”?

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