Harriet Tubman will be on the $20 bill-- $10 and $5 bills changing, too

[Red Spy]

How is that tribal

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[Nymph]

How is that tribal

If anything what Otis said is all about equality lmao

[Remurr]

Bump.

$10 and $5 are changing as well.

[sir dooble]

Neat.

US should regularly update its currency with new figures on the reverse every few years. Celebrate various US citizens, events and achievements.
And help prevent counterfeiting.

[Nonnel]

Oh cool
So they're just changing the backs of the other two

[Frequency]

Neat.

US should regularly update its currency with new figures on the reverse every few years. Celebrate various US citizens, events and achievements.
And help prevent counterfeiting.

or the world could switch to a universal "credit" system

[Remurr]

Oh cool
So they're just changing the backs of the other two

yeah, just the backs

[TristanLuigi]

I really don't care who replaces Jackson. The list of people who are more evil than Andrew Jackson is very short.

[Ringabel]

I really don't care who replaces Jackson. The list of people who are more evil than Andrew Jackson is very short.

it's kind of unfair to judge 19th century ethics by 21st century standards

[Nonnel]

it's kind of unfair to judge 19th century ethics by 21st century standards

forcing thousands of american indians out of their land to the stufftiest land in the US is by all definitions pretty terrible

[TristanLuigi]

it's kind of unfair to judge 19th century ethics by 21st century standards

Yes and no.
While on some level obviously we've changed a lot morally over the last two centuries (for the better), there were still people in that time who had morals that someone today might consider acceptable - they were just the minority, such as abolitionists and the like. And really, it hardly matters what era we're talking when it's something as heinous as the Trail of Tears.

[ABlockOfCheese]

forcing thousands of american indians out of their land to the stufftiest land in the US is by all definitions pretty terrible

human history is a story of conquest.  It's not a white problem, Indian problem, black problem, whatever.  All of those relocated tribes conquered other tribes and were bound to be conquered themselves.  It's not like the trail of tears was some unprecedented act, but it was better than just killing them off, which most tribes would've done to their enemies instead.

[TristanLuigi]

human history is a story of conquest.  It's not a white problem, Indian problem, black problem, whatever.  All of those relocated tribes conquered other tribes and were bound to be conquered themselves.  It's not like the trail of tears was some unprecedented act, but it was better than just killing them off, which most tribes would've done to their enemies instead.

What the hell, seriously? That might just be the worst, most forgeted up possible attitude towards the Trail of Tears.
"Yeah, we should commit this horrible attrocity because they're going to be conquered anyway!"
That would be like saying the Holocaust was okay because all those Jews were going to die anyway, or the Great Purge was okay because Stalin's famines were okay because those people would eventually be hungry regardless, or that it was okay for Prussia and Russia to partition Poland because they would be annexed eventually. No, actually, it's worse than that, because it's not even necessarily true that those tribes would be conquered. The tribes in the 1800s weren't in an active war against each other. And then you're going back and saying it was okay because it wasn't "unprecedented." Again, that's like saying the Holocaust was okay because it wasn't unprecedented - there was the Armenian genocide. Obviously the Trail of Tears isn't nearly as atrocious as this brown townogy, but it shows the flaw in your logic.

Sounds a lot like Social Darwinism to me.

[Nickpb 3.0]

Nothing is wrong with social Darwinism

[Nickpb 3.0]

Neat.

US should regularly update its currency with new figures on the reverse every few years. Celebrate various US citizens, events and achievements.
And help prevent counterfeiting.

sorry double post
but they do update the bills every year to counter counterfeiting
new security features are added constantly