An increase in narcissism is not an empirical thing. Ffs. Like, we have clinical data documenting the relative narcissism of slave holders? Come the fuck on.https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1378875468548616192 …
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Replying to @nberlat
It actually makes me really angry when people come out with this take Like when you imagine the attitude it took to function as a white elite in the "good old days" of the West what the fuck can you call it but narcissism
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The Father of Our Country took his elderly slaves' teeth to make them into dentures for himself, is that not narcissistic
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This is the painting they did of him for the Capitol dome, which the artist started working on in his lifetime with his approval, literally called "The Apotheosis of Washington", is this not narcissisticpic.twitter.com/G0Gco5WBg9
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Hey fellas is it narcissistic at all to be memorialized by one of thesepic.twitter.com/g1rDMO8Ydz
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Okay, but in fairness, he was long dead when that was built, wasn't he? The teeth thing, though -- JFC.
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The jokes about Washington's "wooden teeth" (you can't actually make teeth out of wood, as everyone knows -- wood does very badly with constant moisture) feel like they were deliberately covering this up
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