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  1. Interesting. Your source seems good and scholarly. It does surprise me, seeing how enlightened he was regarding the Indians. He admired them. At the Albany Indian Congress of 1755, he suggested the confederation of the colonies with their own Parliament -- using the Iroquois Confederacy as his model.
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  2.  @germaniatv1870  One way of escaping being an underclass is for another group to take that spot. The Irish did that.
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  3. In today's world, we call hate & discrimination "racism". For me, "racism" is only one way to hate. We can hate based on religion. That is one of the oldest forms of organized hate. In Europe, hating has been commonly done based on ethnicity. It still exists. Brits still call Frenchmen "Frogs", for instance. Where I grew up in Chicago - there were no "white" people. There were Polish, Irish, Italian, Bohemian, Swedes, and Greeks. And, they did not always get along. Each were called names based on their ethnicity. I see Franklins prejudices as a part of that. We don't generally talk about or condemn ethno-centrism, so even today, it is seen as quite acceptable. Oddly, a person can be quite prejudiced in one way, and then be very enlightened in another -- at the same time. The dynamics of Hate, discrimination, and subjugation can be both horrific and interesting.
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  4. As soon as the Irish started coming over.
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  5.  @germaniatv1870  Hard to believe? Or, hard to deny?
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  6. Really? Where did you get that quote that supposedly is from Benjamin Franklin?? I notice you give no attribution. I have read some Franklin writings, and never came across ANYTHING like this. So, tell us -- where did you get this? I doubt its real.
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