.world removing Thomas Jefferson quotes for "advocating violence" (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by ayyy@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverselore@lemmy.ca

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How deep do they guzzle that boot?

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[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago

Probably more fit for !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Is it? the person doesn't seem to be involved in it.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Hm, good point

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

"Patriotism is the virtue of the Vicious", according to Oscar Wilde

[-] vapeloki@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago

Maybe, just maybe, this specific mod is, like me, not an American and does not know this unmarked quote.

Maybe he knew and still did it.

I don't know, so I can't judge. Do you?

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

Yes, because I have the intellectual capacity to look at the quote and know it's not advocating violence.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

That’s not really the point. The point is it’s such a benign thing to say that it’s completely absurd to censor it.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 month ago

It's their server, and their community. They can do whatever they want. You don't have to post there

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

I don’t, but unfortunately the rest of the lemmy community needs to learn that lesson still. Hence my PSA that attempts to educate others.

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

And what makes you think anybody should listen to you talk down to people about what they can't do on servers that aren't theirs, when you're not on a server that's yours either? You don't have to post here, go back to the kremlin fanclub if you don't like it.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Yes

[+] ohulancutash@feddit.uk -6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That’s Jefferson? He was full of crap then evidently, that quote is heavy teen rebel energy. Was he one of the slave owners or was he just angling to genocide the existing tenants? Is he one of the still-popular ones? So many questions.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I see I already had you correctly tagged as “bootlicker”.

(Edit: the person I replied to edited and expanded on their comment after I replied to it)

[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

For being sceptical about the motives of a rich elite from 200+ years ago? OK then.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't know if you genuinely don't know about Jefferson, or not.

Thomas Jefferson unquestionably owned slaves, and he fathered five children with one of his slaves*. He made his own Bible by cutting out the parts he didn't like with scissors. So like all of them, he was full of his own crap.

*And he inherited her from his father in law, who was also her father. Meaning Sally Hemings was a half sister to Jefferson's late wife. Jefferson likely started sexual relations with her when she was 14, and also probably started when they were in Paris. Legally, Hemings was not a slave in Paris at the time.

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