Well, yeah.
That's the date of the English Grand Lodge establishment not of Freemasonry itself.
He told him to fuck his own face.
They can confer that degree to a non Mason if they believe you contributed greatly to society or to Freemasonry at large.
He's growing on me.
He's trolling. It's working.
He's got actual racists crawling out of the woodwork.
Normally, sure. We're talking about actual racists.
That must be it.