PC Principal: Get Off My Lawn

[Zetanio]

I bet there was literally one guy and he totally douched it up for all his feather bros.

[Headspace]

It's almost as if we have statues of George Washington for a different reason

Sometimes we erect statues to commemorate the good things people did.

Sometimes we have to take them down for the bad things they did.





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[thetruepandagod]

brb teaching english in china

[tyven]

Sometimes we erect statues to commemorate the good things people did.

Sometimes we have to take them down for the bad things they did.





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i cant breathe lol

[Andalusian girls]

It's ok that a guy kept humans enslaved against their will because he only kept them until he died.


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i doubt you possess either the logical capability or human empathy necessary to understand this but the insidious horrors of slavery do not end with the enslaved, it also turns masters into monsters. men like Washington who grew up with slavery were indoctrinated from youth that is was the natural order of things and an immutable aspect of their society, ones whose entire culture reinforced over and over again it was the way of a righteous world, not an evil to be made right. it was a world that poisoned the minds of all who lived in it, and Washington was no exception, he notably only coming around to the notion of freeing his slaves after being presented with northern ideas of abolition during his national endeavors, and after having led free black men during the Revolutionary War.

more practically as Zealot alluded to many of his slaves were Martha's property, she having been a wealthy widow who inherited them they were dower slaves that would revert to her husband's estate upon her death, he had little legal recourse (and less economic opportunity our first president's finances were not so good) to actually free many of them in his life though he clearly wanted to do so. but in his will he not only emancipated all the slaves he legally could, he sold off portions of his estate to educate the younger slaves in reading + writing + some useful profession and to provide a retirement stipend for the elderly and infirm slaves for the rest of their lives.

an institution such as slavery can never even approach morality, a right act can never absolve the wrong that came before, and whatever the difficulties Washington could have done more both personally and publicly to combat the peculiar institution. but Washington's lifetime evolution on slavery is exceptional simply because it is exceptional. no other slave-owning founding father even sniffed at freeing their slaves (including Jefferson and Madison who spoke so elegantly against it), you can count the number of plantation owners period who did so between 1776 and 1865 on not very many hands. to do so was to reject one's culture, one's society, the lies upon which your country was founded. it required a degree of moral courage most could never hope to find. the man whose statues you don't like did.

[tyven]

i doubt you possess either the logical capability or human empathy necessary to understand this but the insidious horrors of slavery do not end with the enslaved, it also turns masters into monsters. men like Washington who grew up with slavery, were indoctrinated from youth that is was the natural order of things and an immutable aspect of their society, ones whose entire culture reinforced over and over again it was the way of things. it was a world that poisoned the minds of all who lived in it, and Washington was no exception, he notably only coming around to the notion of freeing his slaves after being presented with northern ideas of abolition during his national endeavors, and after having led free black men during the Revolutionary War.

more practically as Zealot alluded to many of his slaves were Martha's property, she having been a wealthy widow who inherited them they were dower slaves that would revert to her husband's estate upon her death, he had little legal recourse to actually free them in his life though he clearly wanted to do so. but in his will he not only emancipated all the slaves he legally could, he sold off portions of his estate to educate the younger slaves in reading + writing + some useful profession and to provide a retirement stipend for the elderly and infirm slaves for the rest of their lives.

an institution such as slavery can never be made moral, and a right act come to can never absolve the wrong that came before, but Washington's lifetime evolution on slavery is exceptional simply because it is exceptional. no other plantation owning founding father even sniffed at freeing their slaves (including Jefferson and Madison who spoke so elegantly against it), you can count the number of plantation owners period who did so between 1776 and 1865 on not very many hands.

you just got 4th dimension statue chess'd. clearly that JoePa post was his endgame

[Dimmauk]

brb teaching english in china

Brb, posting this on Trumps Twitter

[tyven]

brb teaching english in china

Timberland in chinese is Timberland. Hell yea. I mean it makes sense. I just nver thought about it you know. Anyway come wash daddy's timberlands.

[Andalusian girls]

you just got 4th dimension statue chess'd. clearly that JoePa post was his endgame

oh no

[tyven]

oh no

these were such simpler times

[archibaldcrane]

Sometimes we erect statues to commemorate the good things people did.

Sometimes we have to take them down for the bad things they did.





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Never build statues of the living.

[tyven]

Never build statues of the living.

I mean when someone wins 408 more wars than George Washington while not owning slaves you gotta feel pretty confident.

[Headspace]

Never build statues of the living.

Just like those all those confederate statues

[Tarage]

brb teaching english in china

He's so short it's adorable. It's like a kid mouthing off.

[archibaldcrane]

Just like those all those confederate statues

wat

[Day]

Pretty well written plea to have done so with bullets whizzing by

https://www.facebook.com/bishopjames...12365129777148

dont read comments u were warned

[thetruepandagod]

SHOO SHOO WASHINGTON
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/08/...-slave-owners/

[Day]

get rekt i beat you nerd

[thetruepandagod]

ya but i don't deal in facebook posts!

[tyven]

you guys can we name Washington DC to Hamilton DC? lmk