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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry. I left out a word in my quote of Ben Franklin.

The correct quote reads as follows:

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."[/quote]

That’s a false dichotomy written by a misogynistic slave owner. [/quote]

How do you know that Ben Franklin was a misogynist?

You're pretty quick to throw that word around

And by the way... do you really think it is appropriate to judge an 18th century man by 21st century standards?[/quote]

Yes, yes it is appropriate. I don't know where the myth that the founding fathers didn't know any better came from. Even during the 1700s, there were abolitionists and people advocating for better treatment of women. The slaveowners and other white men of the time did not realize that owning and abusing people was wrong; they just accepted it as something one did to maintain his position at the top of the social and economic power hierarchy.

So yes, I judge them harshly.[/quote]

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