People always want you to be impressed that founding fathers wrote in their diaries that slavery was bad while not doing anything about it and buddy i am not impressed
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ah well if he KNEW that holding people in lifelong captivity by threatening to torture and kill them was bad, doing it was ok I guess
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George Mason argued fiercely that the worst thing about slavery was it debased the character of white men and made them indolent wretches dependent on the labor of their slaves While this is not in fact the worst thing about slavery, it does explain why he never freed his slaves
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It's one of those things that's so shitty you almost have to respect it Like you can't exactly argue with it
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