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G. Washington – T. Paine – J. Monroe, and others REVISED: are them On the footsteps of the Cancel Culture? 

• Paine publicly accused George Washington of fraud and corruption at the time when in the revolutionary army and later as president.

• He also, inspired and supported the Imperial Monroe Doctrine.

Thomas Paine had no slaves.

Thomas Paine was an England-born philosopher and writer who supported revolutionary causes in America and Europe. “Common Sense” published in 1776 was the first pamphlet ever to advocate 13 American colonies independence from England, for the first time turning his back on the country that saw him born. Evidently, a man of internationalist principles based on independence and revolution to attain it from the old feudal-monarchical establishments. 

After writing the “The American Crisis” papers during the Revolutionary Independence War, Paine returned to Europe and offered an inspiring defense of the French Revolution with “Rights of Man.” His political views led him to prison.  after his release, he produced his last great essay, “The Age of Reason,” a controversial critique of institutionalized religion and Christian theology with a substantial analysis of the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Bible, questioning the divinity of Jesus Christ.

James Monroe enslaved women and men who lived on his property. Like other plantation owners and members of the founding father's generation, Monroe enslaved as many as 250 enslaved persons in his lifetime. He freed only one: Peter Marks, who was manumitted in a request made by Monroe during the last days of his life.

By the time of Washington death in 1799
there were 317 enslaved people at his 
Mount Vernon estate, 124 owned by
Washington himself and the remainder
 managed by him as his own property
but belonging to other people.

Released in 1794, partly thanks to the efforts of the then-new American minister to France, James Monroe (whom he would later nurture, support and execute USA imperialistic approach through the Monroe Doctrine), Paine became convinced that George Washington had conspired with French revolutionary politician Maximilien de Robespierre to have Paine imprisoned. In retaliation, Paine published his “Letter to George Washington” attacking his former friend, accusing him of fraud and corruption in the military and as president.

On his deathbed, his doctor asked him if he wished to accept Jesus Christ before passing. “I have no wish to believe on that subject,” Paine replied before taking his final breath. Would you agree that Thomas Paine, living in our time would be a fighter for the independence of PR, or a philosophical materialist just like Marx? What is the big fuss about it?

Source Britannica