@natharari
They really never learned a single god damned thing about history ever.

You actually could make the argument that Thomas Jefferson was "anti-slavery" in the same way that a manager or a landlord can be anti-capitalist -- opposed to the idea in the abstract but living in violation of your own principles out of comfort/convenience because the law permits you to.

As I understand it, Jefferson apparently is on the record during the constitutional convention saying he thought slavery should be abolished and argued to keep the prohibition in the original constitutional document when it was striken by pro-slavery delegates. But because they couldn't come to a consensus and Jefferson (and the other abolitionists) thought ratifying the new constitution was more important, they kicked the question of slavery down the road.

Jefferson did own slaves, one of whom he treated as a wife after his first wife died -- they slept in the same bed together every night until Jefferson died, they had 4 kids together. He agreed to grant freedom to his two sons in his will. But was this long-term relationship with his slave consensual? Almost certainly not.

But this level of nuance is far beyond the capacity of the average American citizen, as we can see in this interview, and a very different story than what racist shitstains like DeSantis want to indoctrinate children to believe.