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Originally Posted by RKLover
So? Being Less Wrong still does not make them right. So much of what we have today is due to th foundation they laid. But they were not Saints, and much of what they believed was very wrong in regards to Gender and Race.
P.S. I am a rich white man. My family openly opposed slavery and actively participated in the Underground Railroad. |
Less wrong = better. And, I'm sure that they are sobbing in their graves that you don't like them. Thanks for listing your pedigree - it makes everything you say that much more true.
The word for what you are doing is "presentism"
"Presentism is a mode of literary or historical analysis in which present-day ideas and perspectives are anachronistically introduced into depictions or interpretations of the past"
Presentism
And, the word for people who brag online about what their family did in the past and about how much money they have is "wanker"
"wanker can carry suggestions of egotistical and self-indulgent behaviour"
Wanker