#fuck thomas jefferson

[lams-is-canon]

Today is Thomas Jefferson's birthday

But I hate Thomas Jefferson a lot. We don't actually know Sally Heming's birthday although we know the year was around 1773, so I'm just going to take today to honor her. Imagine, just for a second, if she lived in the modern age. She could've had a good life. She could've had a childhood without rape and pedophiles and endless work. She could've had a family, a real good one. Instead, she was born into slavery and had a horrible life. She was only a quarter black. She had relatively straight black hair. Looks like she might've had brown eyes. Take a moment to honor her. Her brother, James, too. He was an amazing chef who actually invented macaroni and cheese. Just take a moment, to honor every slave who never got a good life because of their SKIN.

[jarmes]

[captn-lovelace]

my prof commented on my thesis “have you read thomas jefferson’s notes on the state of virginia?”

girl don’t even get me STARTED on Notes we’ll be here all day

[jennicatzies]

This didn't turn out the way I wanted it to but. Had this idea in my head far too long I needed to get it out

[lillersdabomb]

happy 1776 day all

[mantisnixon55]

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[w0w0zella]

im only a little sorry

[justanotherhamiltrash]

Jefferson: Why are you ignoring Laurens?

Hamilton: I’m playing hard to get.

Jefferson: Why would you do that? You’re already hard to want.

[cricket-moth]

back to hamilton posting in the year of our lord 2024?

more likely than you think.

[oldbooksandnewmusic]

Why did I make this? Because I hate myself a bit, I think.

[wilwheaton]

A new civics training program for public school teachers in Florida says it is a “misconception” that “the founders desired strict separation of church and state,” the Washington Post reports. Driving the news: That and other content in a state-sponsored training course has raised eyebrows among some who have participated and felt it was omitting unflattering information about the country's founders, pushing inaccuracies and centering religious ideas, per the Post. The Constitution explicitly bars the government from “respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Scholars interpret the passage to require a separation of church and state, per the Post. In another example, the training states that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were against slavery, while omitting the fact that each owned enslaved people.

Florida training program: "Misconception" that founders wanted separation of church and state

So ... DeSantis and his Fascist supporters want to just straight up lie to generations of children about the history of American violence, oppression, racism, and they are using the law to do that.

I’m speechless. I haven’t finished my coffee yet, and it’s early, but ... holy fuck. I am speechless.

[farbexx]

FINALLY DID IT..

[livelaughlovelams]

Ew. Ew. No no no. Do not call this a love story, this is sick. What the hell. She was 16. 16?!

[lady-loquacious]

Heard a transphobe say that the libs are gonna try to elect the first trans president. (1) if so, good; (2) they don’t realize that we’ve already had one

[icarusbetide]

this is what jefferson hears every time hamilton starts talking about his financial plan

[tuulikki]

Was anyone going to tell me that Engels really hated the Irish or was I supposed to find that out for myself???

These are some really impressive anti-immigrant talking points:

The southern facile character of the Irishman, his crudity, which places him but little above the savage, his contempt for all humane enjoyments, in which his very crudeness makes him incapable of sharing, his filth and poverty, all favour drunkenness.

With such a competitor the English working-man has to struggle, with a competitor upon the lowest plane possible in a civilised country, who for this very reason requires less wages than any other. Nothing else is therefore possible than that, as Carlyle says, the wages of English working-man should be forced down further and further in every branch in which the Irish compete with him. And these branches are many. All such as demand little or no skill are open to the Irish. For work which requires long training or regular, pertinacious application, the dissolute, unsteady, drunken Irishman is on too low a plane. To become a mechanic, a mill-hand, he would have to adopt the English civilisation, the English customs, become, in the main, an Englishman. But for all simple, less exact work, wherever it is a question more of strength than skill, the Irishman is as good as the Englishman. Such occupations are therefore especially overcrowded with Irishmen: hand-weavers, bricklayers, porters, jobbers, and such workers, count hordes of Irishmen among their number, and the pressure of this race has done much to depress wages and lower the working-class. And even if the Irish, who have forced their way into other occupations, should become more civilised, enough of the old habits would cling to them to have a strong, degrading influence upon their English companions in toil, especially in view of the general effect of being surrounded by the Irish. For when, in almost every great city, a fifth or a quarter of the workers are Irish, or children of Irish parents, who have grown up among Irish filth, no one can wonder if the life, habits, intelligence, moral status -- in short, the whole character of the working-class assimilates a great part of the Irish characteristics. On the contrary, it is easy to understand how the degrading position of the English workers, engendered by our modern history, and its immediate consequences, has been still more degraded by the presence of Irish competition.

—Condition of the Working Class in England, 1845

Dirty, stupid immigrants stealing jobs? Revolutionary take