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[quote=Anonymous]Years ago, I listened to a podcast about Thomas Jefferson and the main guest was a scholar who was a black woman and Thomas Jefferson expert. The host asked her if Thomas Jefferson should be “cancelled” because he was a white cisgender slaveholder. The woman said no. She said we should continue to recognize his brilliance and judge him by the standards of the times in which he lived, which sadly were accepting of slavery and other horrors. The woman also said that she feels differently about people who still defended slavery later in the 1800s, because by then it had been denounced and abolished throughout most of the world. It’s complicated, no? [/quote]
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