Time to bulldoze the Jefferson Memorial?

[Max Sawicky]

> This whole discussion of Jefferson seems to me to smack of presentism.
> We can't judge Jefferson's thoughts and actions by present day
> standards, we have to judge him within the context of his day.  . . .

Quite right.  The specifics of this case aside, we
could just as easily dismiss Marx for being a sexist
or overly fond of hamburgers, or any other figure from
the past for some deviation for contemporary left mores.

MBS