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The founding fathers were all privileged white men.


And then you had almost a century of slavery...

I think that he has a point in saying that if you have an heterogeneous society, it's not wise to put all the power in an homogeneous group.


It is worth observing that slavery was not universally practiced or accepted in the US and that ending it involved, among other things, a mind-boggling pile of corpses, the suspension of habeas corpus and the near destruction of the US as a political unit. Moreover, that the great empires maintained de facto slavery in their colonies up into the 60s. So I think there is a serious lack of historical perspective when you are trying to ding the founding fathers very hard for slavery, as if they all intended it, as if this were some kind of inevitable result of putting white people in power.

I like affirmative action, but I don't think it is a viable principle for determining political rights, which should be universal and colorblind rather than being denied or granted based on race or a distaste for homogeneity.

The idea that white people should not have power because of their inherent moral depravity is definitely a racist idea.


Yeah dude white people are all the same.




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