First of all if Sears and KMart stop selling anything it’ll put them out of business. They can’t afford to lose one customer.
Second, I, to, find this sickening. Do these people not realize what they’re doing to the constitution? The Founding Fathers owned slaves. I say we start a movement to banish them all from history. No, wait. That’s what they want.
What really pisses me off is how the republicans jump on the bandwagon. I hope they lose every election coming up. Let them see how kowtowing to the left will not get them any votes.
A pretty much universal theme in academia and in informal debate is that ANYONE who owned slaves or did not object to slavery has zero moral authority or intellectual validity at all.
The argument seems to be “If they didn’t get the most obvious issue in human history right, why should they be given any credence on anything relating to theology, politics or philosophy?”
I mean you and I know it’s all in context; George Washington or Saint Paul were very humane for the time in their treatment, or suggested treatment respectively of slaves, but that doesn’t hold a lot of weight in informal debate, even if it is historical truth.