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The history of Washingtons teeth is uncertain. The evidence that those were slave teeth seems to show that the teeth were purchased.
Internet pictures with words are fucking dumb.
Washington owned slaves. He was not some moral high ground individual. The only reason why they even got independence from Britain was that Britain wanted to stop the expansion of the territory and the people in the colonies wanted to continue it and kill all the natives.
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He literally took advantage of enslaved people to get their teeth and you consider it as just “bought”. Top tier cracker mindset. I guess that to you it was also fair for him to own his slaves because he “bought” them.
https://daily.jstor.org/were-george-washingtons-teeth-taken-from-enslaved-people/
I didn't suggest anything about his character, and we could probably have an entirely separate discussion about imperialism.
What is important is how you source information when it comes to dental prosthetics.
Oh please, criticizing the meme because “the teeth were bought” Is an attempt to save his caharacter. And then saying that images with words are all dumb. People can see through your attempt of white washing.
I don't give a fuck about his character.
You are making assumptions about my intent or what I believe, which is a childish argument tactic.
Again, internet pictures with words are fucking dumb. You might get a ton of likes on Facebook with that shit though.
Go on a seethe, cope calling me childish or whatever your manipulation tactic is, but your attempt of white washing is obvious. I am done talking to you.
I only see one person coping and seething. Dude has criticism about a meme because the source is questionable and you just bitch and moan. You literally put word in their mouth.
Lmao, “questionable source”, you can literally Google that in 5 seconds and see all the sources that confirm that. Now I know that memes are supposed to have sources when the users can easily Google it themselves /s. The white washing apologist just get funnier and funnier.
“Just Google it” is not a source. I would really like to know why you think I’m white washing. I’m arguing about you being an absolute jack ass. You are being childish, that is a fact. The source is your comments. Idc if you don’t source facts on a meme. In fact I “just googled it” for the Lincoln one and once I have more time I’ll probably dig in further. I still find it funny that some child is calling me a white washing apologist as if you know me.
If you disagree post a source that disproves, instead of defending someone that is trying to defend Washington’s slave teeth because he took advantage of slaves to “buy” their teeth. You are a white washing apologist because you are defending someone who was trying to white wash Washington in the comments. You don’t “need to know someone” to call them out on what they are explicitly doing in a comment section 🤣.
If a racist says something racist in a comment section, you sound like the kind of person who would jump in to say “dont call them racist, you don’t know them” lmao.
This person was trying to minimize the impact of Washington having teeth from slaves and you jump in to say “they were just arguing a questionable source” and when I say that the info is openly available you responded “Just Google it” is not a source
You are literally just a racist apologist who wants to be a contrarian. I am done with arguing with people who try to act smart and pretends that anyone who calls them out in their bs is a child. Because calling people children is so mature /s. What you are doing is called being a patronizing contrarian.
I never said anything about the damn teeth. I couldn’t care less about that argument. I told you that I was arguing that you are acting like a jack ass. Someone had criticism about the validity of the source and you acted like a jack ass and child while giving them a source. Act like a child, get called a child. I have yet to act racist so it makes no sense for you to infer that I am. If you knew me as a person, you would know that’s not true. I said “if” you knew me. This means that I’m not saying you need to know me, but that if you did, you wouldn’t say that about me.
I said the source is questionable because it’s a fucking meme. You add a source later but that’s not what I was talking about. You then said that “a quick google would show” which infers that “just google it” is a source. I know how to do research and know how to do more than just googling. Also I would encourage you to find a primary source, it shouldn’t be hard considering the source you posted.
Here maybe this will help you understand who I am. Owning people is wrong, and judging or caring about someone based on their skin color or ethnicity is just fucking idiotic. And same for gender and sexuality. I could add more but that should help.
Lulz, wut? I called your discussion style childish and you literally just did the same thing again.
I could make all kinds of assumptions about your intents, and none of them good. But I don't.
Wow that's such a dumb thing I didn't expect to read today. I can see why you would think so, but still... Wow.
Lulz, good points. I should clarify that internet pictures with "facts" are fucking dumb. While that wording has gaps as well, maybe we can hone in on some specificity.
Absolute peak writing
insert blackbeard writing image
I'm 30 and this is the first I've ever heard about this. my southern Baptist homeschool curriculum told me that his teeth were made of wood and it was never something i thought to fact check as an adult.
gotta love homeschooling 🙄
According to a documentary I watched in passing on tv some years back, he had several types of dentures and most of them caused him great pain. One could even say his need for teeth helped in small part advance denture technology in the US.
I was at the museum at his estate on the potomac; the dentures were there. The plaque underneath claimed it was slaves.
Is that not how dentures worked at the time? Any tooth you got was from someone so poor they had to sell it or who had it taken from them.
Modern equivalent would be displaying shoes made in a sweatshop. Yeah terrible practice, but so commonplace its generally not a huge reflection on the character of the owner.
Both conditions apply, was the intent. Teeth from slaves that were also purchased. My wording was unclear, sorry.
It was so unclear, it seems that I am white washing racist now.
Me too, when I called out their childish behavior.
And that's OK! Some people just need to blame everyone else for everything that is fucked up in their own lives. I don't support that, but it is what it is.
I don't mean to imply you are racist at all. Whatever it turns out the provenance of those teeth are has no bearing on whether or not you are racist.
I was referencing another thread in this post, so it's not you. Sorry to give the wrong impression.
Washington's teeth were made of diamonds and you can't convince me otherwise.
Washington, Wash.ing.ton. Six foot twenty, fuckin’ killing for fun.
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