Florida intends to indoctrinate children about the benefits of enslavement.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/22/desantis-slavery-curriculum/
Apparently, Florida wants to indoctrinate its children into believing that human chattel slavery was a good thing.
Saying slavery helped blacks by teaching them trade skills is like saying Auschwitz helped Jews hit their target weights. It's an absurd and grossly inappropriate misrepresentation of the atrocity.
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@hubrys DeSantis is in a dick competition with Trump: not who has but who is the bigger.
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I hope they teach that it was Anthony Johnson, a black man, that is why there was chattel slavery in the colonies and later in the US. We must teach the truth about slavery, not just the 1619 Project's false narrative.
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@raphjd The "narrative" or interpretation here from WaPo & @hubrys is, of course.......... beyond absurd.
As to world's bad history of slavery, also worth mentioning:
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Blacks enslaved fellow blacks, or captured & sold blacks to Muslim & white slave traders
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For centuries, blacks & muslims made a point to enslave whites
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Slavic people are called "slavic" because raids on their lands were prime source of white slaves
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Every human society on earth had slavery....
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... until 19th-century Christian & post-Enlightenment West, the ones who decided slavery had to end
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In Roman Empire, crucifying uppity slaves (again mainly white or Middle Eastern) was so often done, was a source of laughter in comedies
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Christianity was revolutionary, in raising up a victim of crucifixation to say "Hey Rome, you suck - look how badly you treat people", & also teaching that slaves in God's eye are equal to masters
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Blacks also owned white slaves.
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https://twitter.com/MattWolking/status/1684371983847358465
The AP African American Studies course that the entire establishment media wanted Florida to adopt says the exact same thing the new Florida standards say.
Oooops! Too factual! AP African American Studies isn't Woke after all! Better revise history!
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The problem is, it's usually a bunch of white liberals pushing the leftist woke crap.
Blacks tend to be fed up with the liberal crap, but still mostly vote for the party that keeps pushing it.
