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@mekkaokereke Adam Smith and Benjamin Franklin were also virulent white supremacists, and Franklin owned slaves.
If you want a good laugh, look up what Franklin wrote about 'swarthy' Swedes...'swarthy'? The people who brought us Volvos and IKEA???
We say it's totally okay to pull a colonizer move on these dead people: co-opt their ideas, apply them to *everyone*, so as to improve humanity's lot
@StrangeCulprits @mekkaokereke
"the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth."