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[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

NYT has been around since before the civil war.

I'll let you have a guess what their stance on slavery was. They always have punched left.

NYT on slavery“Emancipation, whenever it comes, must be the work of the Slave States themselves. They must adopt it from a conviction of its necessity to their own well-being.”