#tadstoermer — Public Fediverse posts

https://youtu.be/JKt5DSl0cWg
Tad Stoermer: '...The 250th anniversary of the founding is here, the books are landing, the documentaries are airing, and all of them are running the same operation: extract the private conscience from the public record, hold it up, call it the real man.

Let's take one of the most durable examples of that operation — the claim that George Washington freed his enslaved people in his will — and see what the record actually says. The record is not ambiguous. It does not require a PhD to read. It requires only that you ask the one question the nationalist telling is designed to prevent you from asking:

How many people were more free the day after George Washington died than the day before?

One.

[...] The managed story of the founding produces one political posture above all: deference. Reach for the dead man before confronting the living one. Ask what Washington would have thought before asking what you think.'

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