angryoptimistApr 3, 2022
That guy held people in cruel bondage for money and had the gall to claim he did it for their own good on God's behalf.
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What set me off on this was a reddit thread about L. Frank Baum having a newspaper where he often said that all Native Americans should be killed. I had no idea author of the Wizard of Oz *advocated for genocide*. You'd think this'd come up a bit more!

Naturally, from there, the thread turned into Famous Racists Fucked Up Beliefs Catalogued thread.

Apr 3, 2022 at 7:14pmWeb
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What is it that's so morbidly fascinating about this stuff to people? We're still laboring with this stuff. It's not footage of a train crash--we're in the damned train. Yet here I am talking about it, too.