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Even a founding father was socially awkward (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works

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[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 81 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Huh. I wonder if he was also socially awkward when he was raping Sally Hemings (starting from when she was 14 years old, younger than his daughter Abigail, whom Hemings was sent to care for), or when he convinced her to leave the relative safety of France by telling her that he'd emancipate her children, or when he was like: "lol u thought" and kept them enslaved for the rest of his life. So socially awkward. Such a quirky guy.

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago (2 children)

america was founded by slaving raping immigrants

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Socially awkward slaving, raping immigrants.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 months ago

2meirl

[–] dylanmorgan 21 points 5 months ago

Thomas Paine was pretty legit. Abolitionist (and I think a believer in racial equality) and not shy about saying so.

[–] Alterforlett@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Hemings

Worth a read, I knew nothing of this.