<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I knew all that, Dan. You don't have to add footnotes every time I write, do you? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 3:11 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">On Jul 8, 2020, at 8:08 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Fanatics are responsible for all of it: tearing down statues, taking names off of buildings and so on. It is black and white thinking. If Jefferson kept a slave then he is a bad person who has utterly no qualities we want to emulate. I predict that cooler heads will prevail after some token things, like moving statues to cemeteries and the like. For example, Robert E. Lee was a very fine person who let his emotion of loyalty overcome his rational side (a danger for all conservatives, I should add).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Except that Jefferson owned hundreds of slaves and bought slaves too. See:</span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://www.monticello.org/slavery/slavery-faqs/property/" target="_blank">https://www.monticello.org/slavery/slavery-faqs/property/</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">It seems to me like he might’ve written about the evils of slavery, but he didn’t do much to suffer material discomfort in that regard.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">And Robert E. Lee likewise owned at least two hundred slaves and was quite cruel in that capacity. See:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://apnews.com/afs:Content:9009420680" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/afs:Content:9009420680</a><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height:normal"><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" target="_blank">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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