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Originally Posted by NCB
This country seems to get pinker everyday.
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"Pinker"? I first read that as a red/blue state thing, but the article didn't match that interpretation. We just had a discussion in another thread about pink (
Help engineer the english language (well, one word of it)), and certainly none of those meanings apply to this thread. Honestly, I don't know how pink=PC.
But back to the article, I will agree that this seems extreme. Slave holding is abhorrent now, but it was a cultural norm at the time. Also, no one is pointing out that Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence had a "free the slaves" clause in it.