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If the ACLU stated that the 1st Amendment was written with racist intent, would you interpret this as the ACLU supporting it?
by sbierwagen 4y ago
If the ACLU stated that the 1st Amendment was written with racist intent, would you interpret this as the ACLU supporting it?
- xbar 4y ago
- raarts 4y agoProof that - just as good people sometimes do bad things - bad people can do good things.
- dahfizz 4y agoAnd? Are you therefore anti 1st amendment?
- xbar 4y agoNo. I think the 1st amendment might be the most important and precious policy in the history of the world. I would disconnect framers from policy in such discussions--it is fallacy to do otherwise.
- mecha_ghidorah 4y agoSure, but did they write the first amendment with racist intent? It isn't as if everything a racist does is motivated by their racism, they aren't putting the kettle on to make some tea to really show those [insert racial minority here] what for, or buying new jeans to put [insert minority here] in there place. There aren't racists planting bushes in their garden specifically to be racist. They are just racist people planting bushes because they want bushes in their garden and the racism is entirely unrelated.
- fortuna86 4y agoNot for the explicit purpose of protecting the racist institution of slavery. You know that, your comment was cheeky and in bad faith.
- xbar 4y agoMy comment was an attempt to undermine the practice of selectively applying intentional fallacies to different amendments in the Bill of Rights.
- fortuna86 4y agoThe only intentional fallacy was you denying the racist history of the founding documents of the US. Maybe because it makes you feel bad. The truth, as they say, hurts.