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jeffersondem: "Your use of repetition (e.g. slavery in the U.S. constitution is unacknowledged) brings to mind what one European socialist said sometime back:"

I'll take that as your admission of abject defeat & surrender on the question of slavery "enshrined" in the Constitution.
Now you've fled & retreated to the position that it's merely not "unacknowledged".
Fine, in my little metaphor, the husband sneaks his new mistress into his home, "acknowledging" only by calling her a "maid".
When challenged he says, "yes, but look up the definition of the word 'maid' -- it includes 'other services' doesn't it?"

My objection here is to your term "enshrined", which implies a religious-like reverence for slavery which never, ever existed among our Founders.

jeffersondem quoting: "It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle.
They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise."

Sounds to me like the perfect description of Lost Causers' work on these threads.

“Fine, in my little metaphor, the husband sneaks his new mistress into his home, “acknowledging” only by calling her a “maid”. When challenged he says, “yes, but look up the definition of the word ‘maid’ — it includes ‘other services’ doesn't it?”

When southerners cite the constitution, you cite rigamarole.

“That's “enshrined”, slavery was never “enshrined” it was never even explicitly mentioned, rather it was snuck in the back door under false pretenses, like a man bringing his mistress home for a dalliance, hoping nobody would notice. . . Fine, in my little metaphor, the husband sneaks his new mistress into his home, “acknowledging” only by calling her a “maid”. When challenged he says, “yes, but look up the definition of the word ‘maid’ — it includes ‘other services’ doesn't it?”

You have previously painted those who owned slaves as one-dimensional “slavers.” Now, you create an ill-compounded narrative depicting the founding fathers of the United States as not just slave masters, but whore masters.

That's a little over-the-top, even by your devolving standards.