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    1. Jonathan Chait‏Verified account @jonathanchait 28 Jul 2020

      Tom Cotton says slavery's "impact on the development of our country" was a "necessary evil"https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/tom-cotton-slavery-necessary-evil-development-country-1619-project.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=di&utm_source=tw …

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      Jonathan Chait‏Verified account @jonathanchait 28 Jul 2020

      2 defenses of Cotton in National review, by @baseballcrank and @McCormackJohn, ignore the first sentence, contextualizing slavery's supposed necessity in the "development of our country" https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/founding-era-antislavery-and-the-overheated-freakout-over-tom-cottons-history-of-slavery/ …https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/how-lincoln-and-the-founders-viewed-slavery-and-the-constitution/ …

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        1. John Long‏ @janthonylong 28 Jul 2020
          Replying to @jonathanchait @baseballcrank @McCormackJohn

          A Republican says something obviously racist and the @NRO is on it!

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        1. Demetrius Williams‏ @demewill79 28 Jul 2020
          Replying to @jonathanchait @baseballcrank @McCormackJohn

          Those two still out there playing their race cards

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        2. John McCormack‏Verified account @McCormackJohn 28 Jul 2020
          Replying to @jonathanchait @baseballcrank

          Does "development of our country" mean "creation of the U.S. Constitution" or "economic development"? Seems ambiguous to me. 1/2

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        3. Tom in Texas‏ @Tommers71 28 Jul 2020
          Replying to @McCormackJohn @jonathanchait @baseballcrank

          Don’t stop Jonathan. He’s on a roll, nuance be damned. Only bad faith interpretations count.

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        1. Van Firth‏ @Van_Firth 28 Jul 2020
          Replying to @jonathanchait @baseballcrank @McCormackJohn

          In 1792 it may have been possible that “slavery was on the path to extinction”. But after the invention of the cotton gin, that was absolutely no longer the case. Slavery expanded into a huge industry, laws became even more draconian. Too many people were getting weathly.

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        2. Pradheep J. Shanker‏ @Neoavatara 28 Jul 2020
          Replying to @jonathanchait @baseballcrank @McCormackJohn

          This reads FAR too much in between the lines. You are making an inference that I do not believe he was trying to make.

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        1. Liz Stephenson‏ @lizrnnj 28 Jul 2020
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          For the White Man to thrive

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        1. Peter Crawford‏ @Pcrawjr 28 Jul 2020
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          Isn’t the whole point that you couldn’t have gotten the southern states to sign up for the “United States project” if you had abolished slavery and therefore there would not have been a USA? That seems a pretty basic obvious point.

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        1. larry barron‏ @dyylbb4 28 Jul 2020
          Replying to @jonathanchait @baseballcrank @McCormackJohn

          Sounds like they are arguing with themselves

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