• Sotuanduso@lemm.ee
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    12 hours ago

    I’ve never heard of this until now, so take it with several grains of salt.

    I’d imagine the complaints stem from the fact that she was never in charge of the country.
    But then they should have complained when Ben Franklin was announced.
    Or maybe they did complain when Ben Franklin was announced, but you can’t really go “look at these bigots hating on Benjamin Franklin,” so that wasn’t shared around as much.
    Of course even if that were the case, there would be people who draw the line at Tubman and not Franklin anyways, which could be a case of actual bigotry.
    Or maybe a significant subset of the audience wasn’t taught in school that Tubman was that influential, and sees this as blowing a historical figure out of proportion.

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      7 hours ago

      They also have Confucius in this one, who also only became popular after his death. When he was alive, he was just a middling beuracrat with a following of maybe a couple dozen people.

      Don’t think he got many complaints…

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    11 hours ago

    Militaristic because she was a scout?

    Seems like a stretch, cultural diplomacy seems more fitting

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      7 hours ago

      She would’ve been at Harper’s ferry fighting with John Brown, if she hadn’t fallen I’ll. So it fits for sure, although I’m not sure if more than the others. She’s an all-round badass