What activity did Benjamin Franklin often engage in that today is considered politically incorrect?

TommyBundok

He probably engaged in alot of activities that today would be politically incorrect, womanizing for one. Mar 19 04, 2:47 PM

Stew54

He owned a couple of slaves, which is perhaps more than just a little politically incorrect these days. Mar 19 04, 2:48 PM

queproblema

"The politically correct would most likely hector him if they could. For Franklin was a slaveholder. It's true he turned against slavery, and ardently so, at the very end of his life, but he took a long time getting there. He could be a bigot as well. He wrote nativist diatribes against the large German population in his own colony of Pennsylvania. In 1751 he argued for excluding everyone from Pennsylvania except the English; Morgan calls him 'the first spokesman for a lily-white America.' Franklin loved the company of women, but he was no feminist. He treated his wife miserably, and he admonished young brides to attend to the word 'obey' in their vows. He worried that handouts to the poor would encourage laziness, and he was a fervent supporter of a strong military." http://blog.kir.com/archives/001003.asp He also played chess with a young lady while she was in the bathtub, which wasn't nearly so questionable as playing chess with a fully clothed woman who was revealing state secrets. http://blog.chess.com/batgirl/ben-frankin-and-chess Feb 15 09, 1:32 AM

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