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From: zen cycle <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com>
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On 4/7/2024 1:26 PM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 4/7/2024 11:54 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>> On Sun, 7 Apr 2024 12:25:03 -0400, zen cycle
>> <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> bullshit. Constitutional originalists  - those claiming _such_ things as
>>> "original Constitution had a better ethos" come up empty when reminded
>>> that racism and misogyny were quite literally written into the original
>>> version. Sure, when asked about the 3/5ths compromise they say 'oh,
>>> yeah, except for that', then when asked about giving women the right to
>>> vote they say 'oh, yeah, except for that'.
>>
>> Only fools believe the 3/5th compromise was a racist thing.  What it
>> was an attempt by the non-slave states to reduce the politcal power of
>> the slave holding states, who wanted to count all the slaves.
>>
>> Yeah, the slave states wanted to count them all.
> 
> Exactly, as anyone who has read in the period knows.

Maybe you should try reading in the period then.

from The Federalist papers, #54
"The federal Constitution, therefore, decides with great propriety on 
the case of our slaves, when it views them in the mixed character of 
persons and of property. This is in fact their true character. It is the 
character bestowed on them by the laws under which they live; and it 
will not be denied, that these are the proper criterion; because it is 
only under the pretext that the laws have transformed the negroes into 
subjects of property, that a place is disputed them in the computation 
of numbers; and it is admitted, that if the laws were to restore the 
rights which have been taken away, the negroes could no longer be 
refused an equal share of representation with the other inhabitants."

yeah....that's not about race at all.

You should know better than to follow the lead of a willfully ignorant 
dumbass.

> 
> Ditto Hammurabi's 'An eye for an eye'. That was not a call to mayhem but 
> rather a groundbreaking call for mercy and limited reprisal.