"I don't think you are coping well with history that won't bend to what you wish it to be.
I'm coping just fine with it because I haven't stopped being consistent. It is very fun and enjoyable being consistent, you should give it a try.
Post 7: "Benjamin Franklin was a slaveowner most of his life."
Post 149: "Have you never heard of William Wilberforce or John Newton?"
Oh John Newton deserves an exemption for being a slave trader then he turned abolitionist? I agree, Benjamin Franklin, John Dickinson, John Jay deserve the equal exemption.
But I wouldn't expect that from you guys and your Britain First inconsistent mentality.
In your original position, Jay and Franklin are disqualified as slave owners from being abolitionists - it's not possible, well, you've disqualified John Newton too. It's not possible for John Newton to be an abolitionist.
I didn't make this rule. You guys did. Make it make sense.
Comes now Brother ProgressingAmerica to exempt from opprobrium certain slave owners and traders.
And what do Benjamin Franklin, John Dickinson, and John Jay have in common, other than that gratuitous exemption?
For one thing they were all from, what became known as Union States that “fought to free the slaves.”
And we know what that means: slave owners from northern and Union states were the good kind of slave owners that practiced good slavery.
Contrast that with what we have learned from the “Won Cause Myths.” From the Myths we know slave owners in the South were bad slave owners that practiced the bad kind of slavery.
Yes, that Thomas Jefferson. Add a plaque of apology to his monument or, better yet, take it down entirely.
From the “Won Cause Myths” we know bad slave owners in the South would borrow large sums of money to purchase agricultural workers and then immediately starve them to death or kill them outright for sport.
Another learning from “Won Cause Myths” - documented elsewhere - is that slave owners in the Union slave state of Delaware fought slave owners in the Confederate state of Florida so that Delaware slave owners could free their own slaves.
And slave owners in the Union slave state of Maryland fought the slave owners in the Confederate state of Alabama so that Maryland slave owners could free their own slaves.
And that slave owners in the Union slave state of Kentucky . . . and so forth and so on.