Politics : Poll: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

New York City just removed Thomas Jefferson's statue from City Hall. How do you view him as a person?

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Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

The good far outweighs the fallibilities in his character.

Those who concentrate entirely on his flaws are dismissing one of the greatest philosophical minds of his era.

And This, Too, Shall Pass Away

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Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

Product of his times.

Everybody here would be racist if that is how they were raised. It’s very naive and arrogant to judge a historical figure using modern moral standards.

Cheerio.

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Truly, what is this faggot shit!

Relax, faggot.

Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

There were many who opposed slavery at that time, including some founding fathers like John Adams. Everyone knew slavery was wrong.

conman is a goon-ass twink bastard

Fuck his Mother

Beware the sound of one hand clapping.

Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

So he chose to support something he knew is wrong?

More likely he was socialized a certain way. if you were socialized that way, you’d be racist. In fact I’m sure of it given your naive black and white take on real life.

Cheerio.

Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

Boatrapper is correct in that Jefferson knew slavery was wrong, agonized over it, but still participated in it and protected it. Jefferson writing about the institution of slavery and the Missouri compromise: “But, as it is, we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.”

So like most of us he was a bit of a hypocrite. Maybe even a bit more than most of us.

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Is it true he slept with his slaves and fathered children with them?

Cheerio.

Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

Very true. Corroboration by DNA evidence in the last several years.

Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

Do you think it was consensual sex?

I can only hope people will study my sex life in the centuries to come.

Cheerio.

Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

Oh I am confident that researchers and academics will be talking about, what is it, the Garden of Sex, for centuries.

RE was it consensual sex – lol! sure, young black women usually can't get enough of old stuffy widower white men who treat them poorly and hide their relationship. It's like catnip to them!

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You don’t think his power could be a turn on to young, fearful black women?

Cheerio.

Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

Vlad, these people…

They can't grasp that one can be anti-slavery yet still be a raging racist.

It's a shame so many are binary thinkers.

Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

Mostly Good

Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

Good?…Bad?…He's the guy with the gun.

KABLAMMO!

Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

Stop stealing my lines!

Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

Lol. I'm just one of your many clones that have been created over the years. What am I supposed to do?

Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

Use Pablo quotes instead. He's got some good ones. You can start by calling me Jefe.

Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

You know I’m not Mexican, right?

Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

I'm not a Michiganer so call it even?

Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

You were supposed to respond with “That’s the spirit!” Classic Ash lol!

Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

Sorry, I haven't run through the series a second time yet. I'm behind on quotes post-AoD

Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

If you live in America and you like it then you have to be thankful for Thomas Jefferson who was instrumental in its creation.

Re: Do you view Thomas Jefferson as a good person or a bad person?

That's the key. They don't like America.
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