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I was talking about Washington, not Jefferson.

[ProgressingAmerica]

All of the heavy gotcha questioning is taking a toll on the forum discourse. I see I did not scroll back far enough to the post in question(45), that is my fault.

We are being seriously Alinsky'd here, this is rule 4 that's being applied. "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules" Taken one step further though.

We are being hammered to live up to stratospheric claims we aren't even making, under the guise that we did in fact make them and it's our rule now to live up to.

Gotcha question: "And this is your evidence that Washington is the prototypical American abolitionist?"

Nothing in post 42 warrants such a grossly aggressive mischaracterization, and in regard to Jefferson I'm facing the same sort of distortions. But since we cannot live up to this rule then all earlier statements and evidence are brushed aside as irrelevant.