<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Jul 8, 2020, at 8:08 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> 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:#000000">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:#000000">bill w</div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Except that Jefferson owned hundreds of slaves and bought slaves too. See:</span><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://www.monticello.org/slavery/slavery-faqs/property/">https://www.monticello.org/slavery/slavery-faqs/property/</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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">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;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>