• OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Penn was a slave owner but among plutocrats in the 1600s he’s about as good as it gets. He treated native Americans well (and to whatever extent you want to credit it, he treated his slaves better than most) and liked democracy and religious freedom.

    So if you want to credit the morsel of an idea here, he is probably trying to say that even though Penn was an OK guy relative to the times, he could get “cancelled” because he was a slave owner and then “they” would force the state to change its name because Penn was canceled.

    But obviously, half muttering nonsense that can be interpreted favorably by anyone with whatever beliefs if they so choose is Trump’s super power so I’m all for reading this uncharitably and just saying he’s being weird and crazy.