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Jenny, Queen of the Vilebloods's avatar

Hey Bigot von Fuckstick, I already answered, and yeah most of what he wrote is problematic and vastly hypocritical so I do ignore it in favor of how the Constitution was rewritten and reinterpreted after the 14th Amendment which made the rights go from a majoritarian concept for the community to the libertarian concept of the individual. Note how I'm not excusing Jefferson's faults and issues. Meeting them head on, including his hypocrisy in the Louisiana Purchase even though he didn't think he had any rights or powers to do so. Meanwhile you handwave Voltaire's bigotry as excusable because "everyone was a bigot back then". Ps that's a quote from you excusing bigotry. It's WEIRD.

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Someone Your Own Size's avatar

So those amendments were written as a punishment for Jefferson's rapes? If not, then your point makes no sense.

If, according to you, we must ignore the non-bigoted writings of bigots, like Voltaire, then we must also ignore the non-bigoted writings of bigots, like the founding fathers.

Many quotes are misattributed. Just because Jesus was not a real person, doesn't mean that some of the quotes attributed to him aren't admirable. Maybe the actual author was a bigoted rapist, it wouldn't matter, the truth exists independent of the author.

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