• Wren@lemmy.today
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    4 days ago

    Kinda weird that you don’t mention the whole former slave who led the resistance to abolish slavery and free his country thing.

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          4 days ago

          Does one thing excuse the other thing, or not? Because if not - why would you have to mention it, when pointing out the other thing?

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              4 days ago

              Wwwhy is it kinda weird, not to mention what you mentioned, when they mentioned what they mentioned?

              For what other reason would you expect the positive thing to be included with the negative thing?

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                4 days ago

                Eldritch commented on Desalines’ choice of name without important context, as though to posit the question: Why name oneself after a genocidal dictator? I added context in case anyone else wondered the same thing and hadn’t heard the name before.

                There’s no reason to believe I excuse anything.

                For everything else, feel free to visit your local library.