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The founders wanted slaves. I don't base my principles on what slavers want.
We should want to be better than them, and be glad that we've fixed some of their mistakes, and desire to fix the rest of their mistakes.
We should want to be better than them, and be glad that we've fixed some of their mistakes, and desire to fix the rest of their mistakes.
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Even if I grant the point uncontested—that their reasons for limiting the franchise were good—their methods included gross sexism and white supremacy, and have allowed our present condition of tyranny of the minority
Even if I grant the point uncontested—that their reasons for limiting the franchise were good—their methods included gross sexism and white supremacy, and have allowed our present condition of tyranny of the minority
But also I think it actually *is* stupid to think that the stated reasons for limiting the franchise were made in good faith, or prevented some sort of tyrannical "mob rule."
Limits to the franchise are never used to egalitarian ends. They're always used to tyrannical ends.
Limits to the franchise are never used to egalitarian ends. They're always used to tyrannical ends.
