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Showing Original Post only (View all)Oh my, the vapors over Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill [View all]
Against my better angels, I took a tour of the Internet fever swamps to see how the denizens thereof are taking the news. True to form, they did not disappoint.
What strikes me in some of their ridiculous reactions is that our currency used to be a lot more interesting than a collection of dead presidents (plus Ben Franklin) in the first place.
We have had Native Americans:
We have even had pagan gods!
Can you imagine the conniptions that would result from proposing to put a pagan god on US currency today?
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Side note. Much of the blind community is pushing for Helen Keller on the $10
underpants
Apr 2016
#3
Helen Keller: Suffragist, pacifist, socialist, and promoter of birth control
RufusTFirefly
Apr 2016
#55
I'd like to see rock musicians on our bills. That won't happen, so I'm glad it's Harriet.nt
raccoon
Apr 2016
#20
I'm not female but my first reaction was this was a bit too much political correctness
progree
Apr 2016
#45