Evil is never “necessary.” What is “necessary” is that people stand up to it.
Taegan Goddard
 @politicalwire
26 Jul 2020
Cotton Says Slavery Was ‘Necessary Evil’ politicalwire.com/2020/07/26… via @politicalwire

Jul 27, 2020 · 4:10 AM UTC

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By the way, Sen. Cotton’s read on American history is ridiculous. Those who thought slavery was evil did not think it was necessary, and most of those who thought it was necessary tried to say it wasn’t evil.
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This is a lie. You are lying. Correct immediately.
Replying to @marwilliamson
I dont k ow how many times I can tell you thank you so here three pictures of my night sky I took earlier you might enjoy. By the way its officially my birthday
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It just takes ... Courage!
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Absolutely.
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Along with being ethically unacceptable, it’s also just not grounded in reality. The American economy never took off until after emancipation. Slavery is a market inefficiency, as economic compensation spurs demand and entrepreneurship. This is also why wage slavery needs to go
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Slavery at one time was a way of storing food several thousand years ago in many places but not so long ago everywhere
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Such a convoluted poisonous way to talk about slavery. The Confederacy only died on paper it seems
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Okay, so you're retweeting fake news.
Tom Cotton
 @TomCottonAR
26 Jul 2020
This is the definition of fake news. I said that *the Founders viewed slavery as a necessary evil* and described how they put the evil institution on the path to extinction, a point frequently made by Lincoln.
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Definitely!
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