it's funny when people use their deep historical knowledge on GAF/ERA
It's kinda sad that "conservative views" is synonymous with "racist and sexist views."
*Looks at the conservative viewpoint from 1776 to current day*
Yea, I can't imagine why anyone would think that.
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Were all conservatives
Learn your history before lumping good men of US history with the modern day conservatism
Only being a little glib here, but when someone suggests that conservatives are racist and sexist, Thomas Jefferson is maybe not the ideal counter example.
(Not that the others should be let off the hook)
arguably he would be a better counter example than at minimum two of the others who did not have a long-term and by most accounts consensual relationship with a Negress and spent countless hours theoretically constructing systems of emancipation with social welfare systems attached indicating an acknowledgement of slavery as harming blacks, while both Washington and Lincoln had a written record of describing the negro as inherently lesser creatures than the white man and Washington spent significant funds to track down fugitive slaves and exploited loopholes in Pennsylvania's automatic freedom for slaves act while President (although both of these were not out of malice/racism, it was out of the fact the legal situation of the slaves his wife inherited were such a clusterfuck of property entanglements and his pointed refusal to break up any families, his own runaway slaves he never bothered to try and recover)
Lincoln is arguably the most conservative person mentioned, and he described himself as such, for he sought to preserve the Union first and foremost, he wasn't in the abolitionist wing of the GOP, he wanted to defend the Missouri Compromise it was the Slave Power that was pushing to alter the status quo of the era...Washington and Jefferson were both literal revolutionaries and Washington took up arms against his government
i mean, one might argue
