The constitution is a piece of paper written by dead white men.

Principles have never been about that. The world has never been about that. It's never been something anyone who wasn't "that kind of nerd" could believe in. Not even up for debate.

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ForHackernews an hour ago | parent [-]

You say that, but pieces of paper written by dead white men have remade the world for good and for ill. All of 20th century history stands in the shadow of Das Kapital.

	▲	AnthonyMouse 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It seems like a specific thing has changed. It used to be that when the US did something bad, people would point to the constitution and the American ideals and say "this isn't living up to our promise". Now instead when people point to the constitution and American ideals people say "those were written by dead white men" as if to justify cynically discarding them in favor of something heinous.