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Replying to @BenjySarlin
That's a pretty standard headline construction, no? https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=%22Things+They+Don%E2%80%99t+Tell+You+about%22 …
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Replying to @baseballcrank
There's a pretty specific context here, which is the implication someone is hiding uncomfortable facts about slavery that are not actually hidden
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Replying to @BenjySarlin
It *is* typically true that the issue is presented in American political debate shorn of its historical & global context.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
If the point is "we didn't invent slavery," I'm not sure who it's even countering. Nobody walked out of Gladiator asking "Wait, Russell Crowe was a SLAVE? Those existed BEFORE America?" It's not surprising discussions of slavery's legacy in America center on American slavery.
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Replying to @BenjySarlin @baseballcrank
The other issue is in trying to defend the Founders, it actually goes too far in the opposite direction and smears them by implying slavery was just an accepted norm. Plenty of them were against it! There were slaveowning founders well aware how bad it looked!
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Replying to @BenjySarlin @baseballcrank
The point at the end is right that we should grapple with the fact the founders cemented slavery as an institution AND passed down the principles that would undo it. But that includes acknowledging the founders knew what they were doing and were well aware of the contradictions.
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You can't cover all that in one column. I've written more about the anti-slavery aspects of the Founding generation in other columns, as well as the evolution from ancient to modern slavery. But that's "yes and" not "yes but".
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Replying to @baseballcrank @BenjySarlin
Why don’t either of you acknowledge that the “they” here is the NYT’s “The 1619 Project”? That alone is the evidence needed to demonstrate that Rich is battling a strawman, given rhe project’s focus on “the beginning of American slavery” and less so a global history.
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