Sparkle TeaThought jumping out at this point in Teri K's thread
Equality (fairness / due process) have always been at odds with freedom ("negative freedom" as in "freedom from" - the urge to have the government leave one TF alone.
This is our historical foundation: the attempt to merge equality and freedom. It's a delicate balance in reality.
Lovely, when it works. But it takes all of us.
#TellEveryone #ShedLight #TeachCivics
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Teri Kanefield (@[email protected])
I think of history as a push and pull. The liberals and progressives push us forward. The reactionaries and regressives push us backward. The founders rejected monarchy, but they created a hierarchy. They allowed slavery and women couldn’t vote. “We the people” meant white, mostly landowning educated men. One way to view history is out groups trying to be recognized as “people.” Hierarchy people have always been with us. When we create fairness and equality, they try to roll it back. 8/