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The one for Thomas Jefferson could be "if someone did more for the freedom and prosperity of the world than anyone else ever, where would you like the statue?"

• Kednicma 6y ago
  "If". I would suggest, for freedom, that Abraham Lincoln did more to increase freedom by directly emancipating millions of slaves; for prosperity, I'd choose Albert Sabin, one of the vaccinators against polio. What, exactly, did Jefferson do that is comparable?
  • gotoeleven 6y ago
    Wrote the declaration of independence and the US constitution, which created the first government based on the concept of unalienable human rights and was a great inspiration for later democracies.
    • scarface74 6y ago
      You mean the same constitution that allowed slavery and counted slaves as 3/5 of a person?
      • gotoeleven 6y ago
        I know this is a very tricky point so Ill use short words: people who have done great things can also have done bad things.
        • scarface74 6y ago
          So yeah. It’s a great thing to create a “democracy” that was only democratic for White Males. Even women didn’t have the right to vote. Let’s just gloss over that. Why not? That’s what the entire US educational system does.
          • gotoeleven 6y ago
            Did you know martin luther king was a plagiarist and a philanderer in addition to being a great civil rights leader? Should we bring down his statues?
            • scarface74 6y ago
              Even so are you really comparing that to slavery?
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• scarface74 6y ago
  I bet his slaves would beg to differ....