"America is founded on the purest principles of individual liberty in the history of humanity." The men who wrote those principles owned human beings.

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Sony Thăng

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"America is founded on the purest principles of individual liberty in the history of humanity." The men who wrote those principles owned human beings. Not metaphorically. Not as a historical abstraction. They woke up in the morning, ate breakfast prepared by enslaved people, wrote sentences about liberty, and went back to owning human beings. Thomas Jefferson enslaved over 600 people across his lifetime. He wrote "all men are created equal." He meant it as a philosophical proposition that did not, in his actual practice, apply to the people he legally owned. "Purest principles of individual liberty." The document was written by slaveholders for slaveholders, with the word "slavery" carefully avoided so it could be exported as universal philosophy. The purity you're describing was always selective. The people it excluded noticed immediately.

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Hello Sony, Your opening premise is false. The fact that something is in the past does not justify or excuse it. Your post is another one of your endless fake controversy red herring posts. You're not American, you don't live in America. Why are you so obsessed with America?

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