06-29-2022, 09:23 AM
(06-29-2022, 09:16 AM)KillerGoose Wrote: This is a fascinating question, and I don't think anyone has answered. A short answer would be YES by modern standards. However, in the case of a person like Washington, or any other members of past society, the answer has to be no. We have to understand the societal norms of that period, as barbaric they may be in today's society, and use this understanding as a way to judge a person.
Basically the woke crowd wants to throw every history book away, because no one who lived before about 1970 was not flawed in their thinking, so nothing ever accomplished is worth celebrating or remembering.