it’s true, he really said it
CW: Benjamin Franklin being racist against everybody except anglos and speculating that space aliens would want to see more white people
He also had a quote that I read in Losurso’s Liberalism where he wrote to a doctor and basically said “aren’t you ashamed that you save all these people who don’t deserve it?”
Did Ben Racism ever actually go to any of these places? Curious how you would distinguish a German from a Brit purely on the basis of appearance
He traveled to Europe, but the Germans he’s talking about there were probably the Pennsylvania “Palatine Boor” farmers, who were from around the Rhine Valley. What he really means is that you can visibly distinguish a poor farmer from a white upper class city dweller based on complexion.
He also has a political motivation here to exclude Germans and Swedes from whiteness because Franklin wanted a purely Anglo America since he was racist as heck
You’re telling me supergenius founding father Franklin (PBUH) couldn’t tell the difference between dirt and having dark skin?
beyond the racism, does this greyhound, bifocal ass wearing motherfucker think that light acts like water and fills available volume not taken up by the dark? or that removing the woods would somehow make the earth’s surface substantially more reflective?
