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Huh. I wonder if he was also socially awkward when he was raping Sally Hemings (starting from when she was 14 years old, younger than his daughter Abigail, whom Hemings was sent to care for), or when he convinced her to leave the relative safety of France by telling her that he’d emancipate her children, or when he was like: “lol u thought” and kept them enslaved for the rest of his life. So socially awkward. Such a quirky guy.

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america was founded by slaving raping immigrants

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Thomas Paine was pretty legit. Abolitionist (and I think a believer in racial equality) and not shy about saying so.

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Socially awkward slaving, raping immigrants.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Hemings

Worth a read, I knew nothing of this.

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Until I read the comments I 100% assumed that he assaulted this girl to some level and she hit him in the head real hard like maybe with some sort of object.

I have no idea whether it was that, or whether he was just too embarrassed to get out of bed for 2 days because of being an autist or something, but the fact that he sought real medical care for it afterwards still kinda biases me towards the first interpretation.

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I believe he was famously socially awkward. He would even deliver the State of the Union by letter instead of speaking.

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