If there hadn’t been a compromise in 1787, there would have been no country to develop. Had there not been subsequent compromises, there might have been a civil war earlier in a much less industrialized country, interesting to speculate how that would have turned out.
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the word "development" doing a lot of work here. Does it mean development in the sense of developing land, or development in the broader sense of building something?
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Cool selective editing bro. Also, ripping all of this from the context of Cotton (self proclaimed defender of free speech) trying to defund schools for teaching history from untraditional vantage points is about as intellectually dishonest as it gets
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"As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction." Reads to me like he's justifying slavery as something we needed to do.
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Speaking of the Founders.... what does
@jonathanchait say a about Biden's 1977 quote about school integration turning schools into a "racial jungle"?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Literacy can be tough.
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I guess instead of studying the 1619 Project Curriculum, kid's should just read this article, a vague spattering of historical legislative debates on slavery. Your opinion is weak but I gathered you're not a Howard Zinn reader.
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