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But you have to admit “native Americans who could be descendants of the founding fathers” is rich with humor on several layers.
by brookst 1y ago
But you have to admit “native Americans who could be descendants of the founding fathers” is rich with humor on several layers.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> “native Americans who could be descendants of the founding fathers” is rich with humor Yes. Though I did consider, until noting the context, that they might be referring to descendants of both the founding fathers and Native Americans. Chilling, actually. To think that a good number of one branch of our founding fathers' descendants may have been exterminated by another.
- FrustratedMonky 1y agoJefferson owned slaves and slept with slaves? So owned descendants?
- bluecheese452 1y agoSlept with is really whitewashing it. Not much choice for a slave.
- FrustratedMonky 1y agoEuphemism. I'm not sure how graphic to be online. Maybe Jefferson brought some of that whacky weed down to the slave quarters and had a big party. Had a good time. Drugged them up first. Not unlike maybe the underclass of sex workers today, in dire straits and desperate.
- newyankee 1y agoIt is even funnier when this argument comes from Canadians, Australians and some New Zealanders as these are some of the more open and shut cases while other countries can be argued to be on some spectrum of foreign vs native depending on the time scales considered. Generally it is framed to meant that we are the people who captured and built these countries and they belong to our 'culture'