The entire idea of colonization — intended for free AND freed blacks — rested on the idea that blacks were not fully citizens of the country. Again, you know this, so cut this dumb shit out.
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Also, “the citizenship status of free black people was unsettled” — a legal and historical *fact* — does not equal “Dred Scott was rightly decided.”
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Martha Jones, “Birthright Citizens” https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1424724973713858560 …pic.twitter.com/xjRakY8lYV
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moving the goal posts from “whether black people were citizens was a ‘different matter entirely’” meaning “it was an open question” to uh, “it was open question, this time with a citation”https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1424727534307004418 …
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just a whole bunch of people who apparently do not know the difference between “this is the case” and “this ought to be the case” https://twitter.com/SpitzleyLuke/status/1424735181458579465 …
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even by the standards of this website, turning “It was an open question whether the free black people of the United States were citizens” into “The free black people of the United States were not citizens and this was good and right” is pretty incredible.
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By discussing the normative status of black Americans in the 19th century, you are somehow causing discrimination to have retroactively occurred It's a phenomenon called Jim Kang
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McLaughlin wrote a whole "it's very legal and cool" article about states just appointing presidential electors notwithstanding that his argument is totally antidemocratic, it also completely discounts the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, and 26th amendmentshttps://www.nationalreview.com/corner/rick-hasens-misleading-account-of-the-article-ii-electors-arguments/ …
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This point is made immensely clear in Foner's recent book about the Reconstruction amendments
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Oh....I see how it works! cc:
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