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Monticello is going woke — and trashing Thomas Jefferson’s legacy in the process
NY Post ^ | 07/09/2022 | Mary Kay Linge and Jon Levine

Posted on 07/09/2022 2:52:46 PM PDT by DFG

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To: DFG

Without Jefferson, we would have NO USA!!!!

Act accordingly!!!!


61 posted on 07/10/2022 10:43:34 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Wilhelm Tell

You’re absolutely right !!!!!


62 posted on 07/10/2022 11:15:26 AM PDT by Oak007
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To: Wilhelm Tell

You’re absolutely right !!!!!


63 posted on 07/10/2022 11:16:32 AM PDT by Oak007
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Ping!

As earlier noted...


64 posted on 07/10/2022 12:48:46 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The “time out” generation didn’t produce as good a result as the @#$whoopin' generation. --Bob434)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
How can a nonprofit own Monticello if it’s a National Monument?

I've heard that the same thing is going on at the National Archives, where the originals of the Declaration and Constitution are housed. Maybe they have posted trigger warnings because of the white cursive writing; I haven't been in there lately. Others who work in DC have said they are appalled by the wokety-wokeness going on at the several Smithsonian museums.

65 posted on 07/10/2022 12:53:04 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The “time out” generation didn’t produce as good a result as the @#$whoopin' generation. --Bob434)
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To: DFG

This last week I was at Fort Monroe and the PC narrative and bashing of Confederates was the fare. The kiosks are riddled with political correctness and the Jefferson Davis Memorial Arch had his name removed. The NPS has been taken over by liberals and PC leaders.


66 posted on 07/10/2022 1:05:19 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Albion Wilde

Figures. Socialist ruin everything. And they’re so freakin’ GOOD at it, too! Grrrrr!


67 posted on 07/10/2022 2:03:06 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Retain Mike

“The philosophical doctrines consulted for the Declaration of Independence and Constitution placed master and slave on the same plain of existence . . .”

That is an interesting comment.

Is that why the document is known as the Declaration of Equality?


68 posted on 07/10/2022 8:18:11 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem
Looks like it is. But even after the Civil War men refused to recognize that imperative as Susan B. Anthony waged an unsuccessful campaign.

WOMEN AND THE CONSTITUTION: WHY THE CONSTITUTION INCLUDES WOMEN

Women and the Constitution: Why the Constitution Includes Women - Commonplace - The Journal of early American Life

History of American Women: Susan B. Anthony

https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2012/03/susan-b-anthony.htm

Her logic based on the Bible and the1828 Webster dictionary was:

AND GOD SAID:,“Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, …. So God created mankind in his own image,….male and female he created them.

MAN/ MANKIND: the human race; the whole species of human beings.

PERSON: An individual human being consisting of body and soul.

PEOPLE: The body of persons who compose a community.

CITIZEN: In the United States, a person, native or naturalized, who has the privilege of exercising the elective franchise, or the qualifications which enable him to vote for rulers.

FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

69 posted on 07/10/2022 9:05:28 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: DFG

Presentation was bias 6 years ago . I can’t imagine how awful it is “woke”.
Look at the wealthy Democrats on the board.


70 posted on 07/11/2022 6:29:15 AM PDT by motherof 3 (Don’t go)
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To: Retain Mike

“The philosophical doctrines consulted for the Declaration of Independence and Constitution placed master and slave on the same plain of existence . . .”

That is an interesting comment.

When Jefferson wrote about “merciless Indian Savages” was that too for the purpose of placing native Americans on the same “plain” of existence?

The reason I ask: I don’t think Jefferson was advocating making college presidents, electors, or jurists of native Americans when he wrote the DOI.

I would be surprised if you can find primary sources to argue he was.


71 posted on 07/11/2022 8:16:59 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem
For primary sources one can look to Enlightenment writers emphasizing individual human liberties synthesized into property as defined most immediately by John Locke, William Blackstone, and James Madison.

Practical application of these primary theoretical sources to circumstances often requires a good deal of energy. I think of the persistence of William Wilberforce which caused the most ordinary men of Great Britain to find positions needed to abolish slavery throughout the Empire in 1833. He first had to convince his colleagues these things were humans deserving application of political theory to them.

72 posted on 07/11/2022 10:26:59 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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