These sorts of arguments always rely on discarding the opinions of anyone who didn't believe them at the time too. Like, "chattel slavery is good" was only a popular opinion if you ignore the opinions of anyone enslaved.
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I was going to bring up Jefferson accusing Adams of being a hermaphrodite but then I looked it up first and it turns out that isn't true. One of Jefferson's propaganda guys just said he had a "hermaphroditical character" which is just calling him a girly-man; it's not the same.
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Wait wait...clarification, pls: I know that there was a great deal of discussion of his “dusky mistress,” but was it framed as rape *at the time*? I’m just curious about the contemporary discourse & acknowledged notions of consent.
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I don’t think it was. Call ended simply refers to Hemings as Jefferson’s “concubine” https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/the-president-again-by-james-thomson-callender-september-1-1802/ …
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Smithsonian Magazine had an article about letters John Adams wrote, asking that no one mention Jefferson’s relationship with Sally Hemings to his wife Abagail, because she’d had both her and Jefferson’s wife (they were sisters) at their house and was fond of them both.
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Also the people responsible for changing those times are ALSO products of their times.
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