Fascist Scumbag Tom Cotton Calls Slavery Necessary Evil
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton attempts to defend his remarks calling slavery a "necessary evil"
Cotton has targeted schools which use the New York Times "1619 Project" with recently-filed federal legislation
https://www.salon.com/2020/07/27/republican-sen-tom-cotton-attempts-to-defend-his-remarks-calling-slavery-a-necessary-evil/
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"Cotton first made the controversial comment in an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette interview published Sunday.
"We have to study the history of slavery and its role and impact on the development of our country, because otherwise, we can't understand our country," he said. "As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction."
[Poster's notes: this is part of why I hate 'founding father' worship. If you're the type of person who can call slavery a necessary evil then you can do anything however horrible. Furthermore, its in no way historically true that the way this country was engineered put slavery on a course towards its end-given that in actual history instead of Cotton's white supremacist filth version of it, the United States ended slavery later than every other independent country in this hemisphere except for Brazil.
Unsurprisingly, if you're a white supremacist fascist, you're also a censor. Although being a white supremacist is clearly worse.]
"Cotton was defending legislation he proposed, which would withhold federal funds from schools that use the New York Times' "1619 Project" as part of their history curricula.
"The 1619 Project" explores the legacies of racism and slavery, and the contributions Black Americans have made to the national narrative. It defines slavery as the central American story and argues for making America's birth year 1619, or the year in which the first slaves arrived from Africa.
Though the project won a Pulitzer Prize, conservatives have criticized the work as politicized and ideological. Cotton attacked the paper's "premise" that America was "irredeemable" and racist "to the core.""
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By IconoclastTwo
Cotton has targeted schools which use the New York Times "1619 Project" with recently-filed federal legislation
https://www.salon.com/2020/07/27/republican-sen-tom-cotton-attempts-to-defend-his-remarks-calling-slavery-a-necessary-evil/
[Excerpts follow]
"Cotton first made the controversial comment in an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette interview published Sunday.
"We have to study the history of slavery and its role and impact on the development of our country, because otherwise, we can't understand our country," he said. "As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction."
[Poster's notes: this is part of why I hate 'founding father' worship. If you're the type of person who can call slavery a necessary evil then you can do anything however horrible. Furthermore, its in no way historically true that the way this country was engineered put slavery on a course towards its end-given that in actual history instead of Cotton's white supremacist filth version of it, the United States ended slavery later than every other independent country in this hemisphere except for Brazil.
Unsurprisingly, if you're a white supremacist fascist, you're also a censor. Although being a white supremacist is clearly worse.]
"Cotton was defending legislation he proposed, which would withhold federal funds from schools that use the New York Times' "1619 Project" as part of their history curricula.
"The 1619 Project" explores the legacies of racism and slavery, and the contributions Black Americans have made to the national narrative. It defines slavery as the central American story and argues for making America's birth year 1619, or the year in which the first slaves arrived from Africa.
Though the project won a Pulitzer Prize, conservatives have criticized the work as politicized and ideological. Cotton attacked the paper's "premise" that America was "irredeemable" and racist "to the core.""
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By IconoclastTwo
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