• Dessalines@lemmy.mlOP
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    The US was founded on slavery and genocide / conquest of hundreds of indigenous nations. It’s rotten to the core.

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      Yeah, and many of those founders were rich businessmen who didn’t want to pay taxes to the king of England. This is a human problem, not a national one.

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        George washington, franklin, jefferson, madison, all the founders were slave-owning colonizers who explicitly modelled their country after ancient Rome.

        It’s not a human problem, these were specifically evil people who did not share the same values as the people they murdered and enslaved.

        Most countries were not founded in this way.