It’s not you… I don’t think it’s common knowledge at all, which makes sense if there are people interested in white washing one of the most consequential intellectual thinkers that shaped the US Constitution.
Right? It’s not like there isn’t some value there worth preserving, but we also need to attend to some of the darker things that emerged out of the enlightenment. Time to humanize the whole lot of figures from that era, I’d argue!
