Hillary backs Tubman on $20

[Beet]

While I support this, I have to admit this is not particularly important to me. Most people have no idea who Andrew Jackson is despite the fact that he's on the 20 dollar bill. It's mostly feel good fluff.

[Beet]

I think we should put Jonas Salk on the $20. He saved more lives in America and around the world than Harriet Tubman, any president or any "liberating" military intervention this country has ever embarked on.

It would help refute the stereotype the rest of the world has of us as a country that isn't interested in science or in "book learnin'" in general.

I sort of agree with this, but maintain that a debate over who is on the 20 dollar Bill is stupid. If it's trending on Twitter or whatever, that just shows the state of contemporary political debate is in the gutter. Jackson's just a guy with big hair to most people. In 20 years, cash will be obsolete anyways.

[Beet]

To be fair, the entire European colonization of the New World from 1492 until 1890 has shades of genocide by that standard. Yes, Jackson was a prominent participant in it, but I've never seen an argument that he was a decisive historical actor in that regard.