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ITT:Statements or anecdotes from historical figures or cultures that are surprisingly contradictory that leave you speechless. It's hard to explain, but I often see the so regarded great men of history saying/doing atrocities that nothing have to do with their views or posture about life.
For example, why did Patricians like Cicero talk about freedom and justice in their works when he was with the sector that opressed the plebs? didn't they deserve the same rights and privileges as well? Or take the rabbis of judea, who talk of the goy like they were scum of the earth.Yet they openly promote equal rights and peace.Remember the idealist Plato?
"Democritus is said to have been disliked so much by Plato that the latter wished all of his books burned". It makes no sense at all.Please share your example.
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>>1609697
Cicero and other senators didn't see themselves as oppressing the plebs but upholding a sensible and necessary hierarchy. They did not see this has contrary to roman liberty
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>>1609697
>we will sit like an effendi and eat
What? Efendi means master in Turkish.
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I thought this thread would be oddly entertaining.
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>We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
>except niggers lmao
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>>1609707
They were right
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>>1609959
The original constitution says "all white men"
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>>1609959
He was right
Niggers aren't people
Back to >>reddit
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>>1609697
Maybe this will help.
TL note: Tikkun Olam means social justice;
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>>1609971
>It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures to be men, because, allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow that we ourselves are not Christians.
>Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans. For were the case as they state it, would the European powers, who make so many needless conventions among themselves, have failed to enter into a general one, on behalf of humanity and compassion?
>There are countries where the excess of heat enervates the body, and renders men so slothful and dispirited that nothing but the fear of chastisement can oblige them to perform any laborious duty: slavery is there more reconcilable to reason; and the master being as lazy with respect to his sovereign as his slave is with regard to him, this adds a political to a civil slavery. Aristotle endeavors to prove that there are natural slaves; but what he says is far from proving it. If there be any such, I believe they are those of whom I have been speaking. [Those who accept it as a contractual arrangement, in a general system of despotism.]
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