as a graduate of the university of virginia I am required by law to disagree with this statement
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Replying to @romanlevin @codinghorror
the Monticello nerd palace was designed around slave labor. They try hard to gloss over that in the tour
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Replying to @Pinboard @romanlevin
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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Replying to @codinghorror @romanlevin
I think you’re talking about UVA teaching, and I’m talking about the Monticello tour
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Replying to @Pinboard @romanlevin
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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yes but he is so French and cool
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no he is the bad kind of French, Lafayette is French and cool
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OTOH that cool purple coat
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it is a good coat, highlighting the injustice of Jefferson enjoying good things while Hercules Mulligan must make do with an ordinary coat
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