Jefferson’s Use of Grids and Octagons was Racist?

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From the Abbeville Institute:

Irene Cheng’s “The Racial Geometry of the Nation: Thomas Jefferson’s Grids and Octagons” is indicative of the wokeist/Postmodernist plight of academic scholarship today vis-à-vis Thomas Jefferson. There is a smoothness to the essay and a structure, and there are sprinkled in several “technical” terms to give the essay quasi-intellectual feel.

Yet that is on the level of “feel.” Careful critical analysis of the paper—something anathema to Postmodernists—shows that the thesis is merely promulgated without warrant. There is no discernible argument.

Jefferson’s love of geometry, Cheng asserts,…

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