• modernangel@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Lincoln also advocated for apartheid. Let’s take the whole body of his ideas with a grain of salt in the context of his times and understand many more useful ideas have evolved since then.

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      He was one of the people who was not only against slavery, but was also in favor of giving freed slaves rights, citizenship, and economic opportunity. He was widely seen as a radically progressive Republican at the time for all of this.

      That being said, some things are simply timeless because they’re true, and this is one of them.