I’m actually on board with Trump’s mocking suggestion that we get rid of statues to Jefferson. Jefferson was a horrible human being
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Replying to @Pinboard
as a graduate of the university of virginia I am required by law to disagree with this statement
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the Monticello nerd palace was designed around slave labor. They try hard to gloss over that in the tour
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even in the early 90s when I was at UVa, they taught about the slave contradictions in Jefferson's work. It was widely known, not hidden.
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I think you’re talking about UVA teaching, and I’m talking about the Monticello tour
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yes but note that the popular play Hamilton features Jefferson so he is de facto cool beans, QED
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the popular play Hamilton explicitly depicts Jefferson as an enormous douchebag
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Honestly, no one comes out well in Hamilton. Other than the Schuyler sisters and Laurens, I guess.
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nah, it's positively hagiographic of Hercules Mulligan
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True. I stand corrected.
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