The problem I have with people on the right attacking Jefferson is the same problem I have with people on the left attacking him. It's the Theory of Wokeness Relativity. http://tracinskiletter.com/2018/06/20/the-theory-of-wokeness-relativity/ …
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The most important and least appreciated is probably banning the importation of slaves, which eliminated the North's economic interest in slavery.
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Yes. Though it also benefited him personally. But he also wrote the original federal ban on slavery in the territories, from which the language of the 13th Amendment is drawn.
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He knew slavery was wrong but lacked the courage to fight his fellow Virginians, and the financial wherewithal to free his own. We’re kinder to our founding fathers than to those who appeased Nazis. Both were compliant in atrocities. Let history be about facts & not veneration
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I've never considered Jefferson a moral paragon, but an intellectual one.
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"Show me a hero and I'll show you a bum" - Maj. Gregory Boyington. He was a inspiring USMC squadron commander during WWII, a POW of the the Japanese and a recipient of the Medal of Honor, but was later an alcoholic wrestler who ended his days living in poverty in a trailer park
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The duality of man, once again - on display. Men are all fallen in some way. In his time, Jefferson was a paragon of virtue. In ours, a hypocrite. It says more about where we have gone than it does about who he was.
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