1. i do not know what you mean by pc---it seems to me a term that has been reduced to nothing by endless repetition.
2. i do not see what your problem is with the story
it turns on problems raised by an awareness of jefferson as human being as over against jefferson as Mythic Founding Father. the question of slave-holding comes up through this. are you advocating less awareness of history? are you assuming that, in questions where history and myth collide, that everyone should choose myth?
it seems to me that if anyone is running a pc-style line on this, it is you, ncb, in that you present this curious story about the local political consequences of a population realizing that there might be a problem with the name of that school as a function of factual information about jefferson as a human being and seem to hold it up to ridicule.
or is the problem that you oppose grassroots mobilizations that are not dominated by conservatives?
or would you prefer that the history of the united states be whitewashed?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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