• phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    9 hours ago

    “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?”

    as Samuel Johnson argued during the American revolution. Apologies for unenlightened 18th-century language.

    • ProfThadBach@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      It is OK. I got my Masters in 18th and 19th century lit. Johnson was right on the money with that quote and I say that as an American.