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Well, now, that was some awkward tap dancing through the topic of slavery...lots of contextual hemming and hawing. I hope the rest of the book doesn't follow suit...
— Jun 05, 2021 07:40AM
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I guarantee that William Cecil did enough cocaine to kill a brontosaurus daily. There’s no way dude could have had his fingers in so many pies otherwise.
(And for once, that’s not an innuendo; just a colloquial expression for his intense level of activity.)
— Jul 05, 2021 05:35AM
(And for once, that’s not an innuendo; just a colloquial expression for his intense level of activity.)
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Jun 05, 2021 01:10PM
Uh-oh. Like you, I prefer my history straight up, and that includes the ugly bits.
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M.F. wrote: "Uh-oh. Like you, I prefer my history straight up, and that includes the ugly bits."Yeah. It's not that he's avoiding the ugly bits or even trying to downplay them; it's more that he's doing the, "Slavery is horrible, and awful, and a stain on this era of history, but it existed long before this era, and if the particular players we will focus on here hadn't done it, others would have..." And that goes on for several pages. Like, we get it--we understand that horrific things happened in the past and that the world was different then. All of these prefatory gymnastics are just making it more awkward.
