Judging people who lived in the distant past by modern standards is such an ignorant exercise of self-righteousness. You are no better than Jefferson by virtue

Judging people who lived in the distant past by modern standards is such an ignorant exercise of self-righteousness. You are no better than Jefferson by virtue of opposing slavery in the modern day. You had the benefit of social norms that instructed you of its evils, and made it easy to denounce it.