This already got responded to, but it’s a widely vectored reading of history, so my bit: This is an incredibly inaccurate claim, and is based on a misreading of what socioeconomic elites of the 1700–1950 era supposed liberty and freedom to entail.
This already got responded to, but it’s a widely vectored reading of history, so my bit: This is an incredibly inaccurate claim, and is based on a misreading of what socioeconomic elites of the 1700–1950 era supposed liberty and freedom to entail.