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USA’s presidents have all been awful humans (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by Confidant6198@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] Thepotholeman@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

I mean sure, the ruling men of more then a century ago by our standards were terrible people. But goddamn teddy Roosevelt was a man fighting for shit you're still fighting for today and hell he got you closer to it then compared to you now.... You can lump him in with slave owners and child rapists FFS.

[-] Theonetheycall1845@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Can someone tell me more about Washington? Wiki says he purchased the teeth from slaves. I'm sure that's not entirely true, or is it?

[-] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Put it this way. No one in their right mind would have their healthy teeth pulled out without anaesthetic and sell them, if they had any real choice.

We know that he "bought" teeth from slaves, and that he was a slave owner, we also know that he had dentures made of other people's teeth. No one knows for sure that the teeth he took were for his own use or from the people he enslaved himself, but it seems probable. More info here.