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[-] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

I have never understood why you wouldn't want to judge the past by modern standards. Sounds like a good way to avoid becoming like them in terms of the wrongs they did, by modern standards.

Otherwise, yeah, I don't know enough about this to add anything meaningful to the conversation around him.

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