What is /lit's opinion on the political writings of Thomas Paine?

>>9390343
Old boring white guy. I'd prefer to read from the narratives and performative constructions of Texan slaves or the Latinx community in America. American history isn't only about white people. Learn to listen to marginal, marginalized, indeed people from the interstices of identities, communities, and modalities, libidinal, social, environmental, spiritual; quit othering THESE parts of American culture and history!

They're a Paine to read.

>>9390361
this pretty much sums it up

Wishy-washy nonsense.

>>9390361
>""""marginalized"""" people
Ah, you mean those people who everyone puts on a pedestal?

>>9390367
'everybody' isn't rooting for you when you're a lone Blasian transgender teen in a nation of redneck, Trump voting, gun-toting, chauvinistic, misogynistic fascists.

>>9390375
yeah but since the spirit of the times is trumpian, wouldn't it be more informative and compelling to read something written from the trump world, not some bourgeois liberal shit we can predict before we get to the first sentence

>>9390375
Kek. Nice.

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>>9390343
He was probably really sad that the French revolution was the opposite of what he wanted.

He gave common people way too much credit to expect them to act any differently.

>>9390375
Non-issue. Just move to the coasts where everyone does support you. If you have enough money to have the leisure time necessary to concern yourself over trivial matters like your "true gender" then surely it won't be any trouble to just leave.