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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a millennial who went to UVA so we obviously grew up admiring him. Right now I am reading a biography of him, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power.

I am obsessed. He was so smart and well educated and ahead of his time in so many ways but I know he is considered controversial today since he was a rich plantation owner who also had a "relationship" with one of his slaves.

I am curious what people think of him these days.[/quote]

How we think of many people of his era -- whether geniuses like Jefferson or farmers who used slave labor.  They lived by the standards and mores of their times.  The United States and a large part of the world have evolved since then. We should not judge those people by today's standards.[/quote]

It’s wild how people don’t understand how our descendants will someday judge all of us for our destruction of the environment and off-shoring of slave labor under the guise of global capitalism.  We get cheap crap we don’t need and we also get to pretend we’re not abusing the human beings who make it!  Then to bring it full circle we can ship our trash to them and accuse them of being the ones destroying environment.[/quote]

China and India aren’t really destroying the environment? Lol[/quote]

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