David Cameron urges BBC to describe Hamas as terrorist organisation

@MicroWave@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

David Cameron urges BBC to describe Hamas as terrorist organisation

@TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz · 8 months ago

Was George Washington a terrorist?

@Saprophyte@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

Yes.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/george-washington-slaves-complicated-history-fact-check-mount-vernon-slavery-tie/65-80249298-e0cb-4c31-b8b4-7f18105607fa

Our experts confirm Washington secretly rotated his slaves out of the state, sometimes just sending them over the river to New Jersey, so they couldn’t claim their freedom.

“He actually instructs his secretary to do it in a way that will deceive them, meaning the slaves and the public,” MacLeod said. “So, he doesn’t want his actions to become common knowledge because he knows that there are so many abolitionists in the city that it could become a PR disaster for him.”

In 1793, Washington signs the Fugitive Slave Act into law, which helps slaveholders recapture enslaved people who have escaped.

@m0darn@lemmy.ca · 7 months ago

I was about to say that slave ‘ownership’ doesn’t make him a terrorist, but yeah it does because i don’t think it’s possible to enslave a person without terrorizing them.

@TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz · 7 months ago

based

@wildcardology@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

If he terrorized then yes.

@TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz · edit-2 7 months ago

What do you mean if. We’ve had 200 years to mull it over.

@wildcardology@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

I don’t know anything about George Washington.