"Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous....
"With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck."
Thomas Jefferson, 1822
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He wrote this from personal experience, having extolled and exalted the right to freedom and pursuit of happiness for all while enslaving and raping those humans he deemed unworthy of such, an absurdity most monstrous.
Fuck Thomas Jefferson.
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Fuck TJ 🤝
It's remarkable, how often he wrote things that show self-awareness about enslaving people. None of it overrode what he saw as "pragmatism" or self-interest, of course, but he sometimes went into surprising detail. Like in the Notes on the State of Virginia, and in private letters like this one:
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Ricardo Harvin