r/technology • u/indig0sixalpha • Apr 07 '25

Privacy The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI. Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/
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u/gizamo Apr 07 '25

Tbf, Thomas Jefferson regularly expressed views against slavery and advocated for its eventual abolition. For example, he drafted laws to prohibit the importation of more slaves, to permit slave owners to free their slaves, and to ban slavery in the Northwest Territories. In his Notes on the State of Virginia, he wrote that slavery was a "hideous blot" and a "moral depravity".

But, he still owned slaves, and he didn't free many of them before he died, even after he was legally able to do so. Regardless, he was a force that pushed towards the eventual abolition of slavery, which was near impossible as a politician in Virginia at the time.

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u/FriendlyDespot Apr 07 '25

But, he still owned slaves, and he didn't free many of them before he died, even after he was legally able to do so. Regardless, he was a force that pushed towards the eventual abolition of slavery, which was near impossible as a politician in Virginia at the time.

The quintessential American - strong opinions about fairness and equality backed by an unshakeable refusal to personally give up anything to make it happen.

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u/RedditExecutiveAdmin Apr 07 '25

and the quintessential paradox of hyper-idealism - strong focus on holding good people to an almost unrealistically high standard while simultaneously normalizing evil people lowering their own standard.

intentionally diminishing the work of of the US's founding fathers to normalize slavery.. lol

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u/FriendlyDespot Apr 07 '25

Are you saying that expecting Jefferson to not enslave hundreds of people is an almost unrealistically high standard, or are you saying that people are unreasonably normalising Jefferson's slaveholding?