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Just simply the responses to this article show that Medium is now entering it’s Eternal September phase.
It’s also absurd to say that the White House was not built by slaves because the original house happened to be rebuilt.
This is the Odysseus Ship problem; if you replaced the planks in a ship one plank at a time then at which point would the original ship no longer remain? 51%? 99%?
The truth is that the White House is a cultural and symbolic icon regardless of the renovation work and it has been proven beyond doubt that it was built by slave labour.
Denying this fact simply makes the denier look uneducated and biased.