Comment on CEO brains go brrrrr

• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  So you don’t believe that George Washington owned slaves? Talk about making up a reality in your head.

  You were indoctrinated from a young age to believe in the myth of the Founding Fathers. Everything you heard in school, all the the monuments, the faces printed on your currency all reinforce your beliefs. So I understand that it’s not easy to accept that these guys were the Elon Musks and Donald Trumps of their times. But it’s not some dead slave masters that guarantee your rights. This mentality results in apathy and taking rights for granted which made the US susceptible to fascism. Mythologizing a false past leads to people wanting to go back to that false past.

  I wouldn’t go so far as to say MAGA is about wanting to go back to full on slavery, but there is a feeling there that people of certain ethnicities should “know their place”. And people certainly “knew their place” when the Founding Fathers were running things didn’t they?

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You sir, are entirely divorced from reality. It would be best for you to stop replying to the straw man you made up in your head and reconsider this entire exchange.

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    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Which of these isn’t real?

      • Most of Founding Fathers owned slaves
      • Elon Musk treats workers like shit
      • The Founding Fathers wrote pretty words about rights and freedoms
      • Elon Musk writes words about right and freedoms.
      • Founding Fathers were wealthy because of the work done by slaves
      • Elon Musk is wealthy because of work done by oppressed people under apartheid

      You keep saying I’m divorced from reality, but which of these things do you think isn’t real?

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