[cdcdawg]

‘Historians today speak of the “proslavery Constitution” and “antislavery constitutionalism”; they almost never speak of the “antislavery Constitution” or of “proslavery constitutionalism.”’

Good grief. Can’t they do something more useful, like debate how many angels can dance on the head of pin? I guess these academic debates still mean something, but it’s still trying to have an honest discussion with a dishonest person.

[Pelham]

“Good grief. Can’t they do something more useful, like debate how many angels can dance on the head of pin? “

This is a debate that was started by William Lloyd Garrison in the war of words that led up to the Civil War. Garrison was arguably America’s premier Abolitionist, publisher of The Liberator newspaper. He showed his opinion of the Constitution by burning a copy of it.

Garrison’s condemnation of the Constitution remains popular in Marxist circles, which today includes the majority of academia.

[mac_truck]

Good grief. Can’t they do something more useful, like debate how many angels can dance on the head of pin? I guess these academic debates still mean something, but it’s still trying to have an honest discussion with a dishonest person.

Meanwhile in Richmond Virginia...