1. This sort of thing gets to my quarrel with the term "white privilege," as if the protection of the laws is a bad thing we should dispense with, rather than a right we should expand & guarantee on an equal basis.https://twitter.com/EddieZipperer/status/1269951088964370432 …
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7. Hunter & other Calhounist apologists had fallen far from the visions of even Founding-era slaveholders - rather than proclaim & principle & admit it then had exceptions in practice, they drifted towards letting the practice redefine & water down the principle.
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8. It is literally un-American & anti-American to view the natural rights of all human beings as unjust privileges to be renounced. That way does not lie liberty or equality, but merely a Hobbesian test of strength. I want no part of it.
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9. Precisely. The Cornerstone speech & the "mudsills" theory were all about claiming that liberty could exist only as a racial privilege for some at the expense of others, not a right for all. That was the struggle over the meaning of republicanism underlying the Civil War.https://twitter.com/AstorAaron/status/1270016935389024256 …
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This is interesting. I live in Kossuth county iowa and never really heard much about the history of naming the county or what the gentleman did until recently
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