Reminder that these are the people we are dealing with here (2023 story below):

New Florida standards teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills

(This was later repealed IIRC, but not before first being approved.)

Florida’s public schools will now teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills, part of new African American history standards approved Wednesday that were blasted by a state teachers’ union as a “step backward.”

The Florida State Board of Education’s new standards includes controversial language about how “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,” according to a 216-page document about the state’s 2023 standards in social studies, posted by the Florida Department of Education.

    • @SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1623 hours ago

      Frankly, out of everything, I’m amazed at just how textbook it fucking is. It’s incredible. You’d think that it would be more subtle, more covert, maybe even slightly different so that people won’t suspect a thing, or hell, maybe even due to them already knowing that this is how it went in history and what the end result was

      But no. It’s literally fucking, act for act, the exact same shit. I can hardly believe it. It’s so… I don’t even know what the appropriate word for it is

      It really is something

    • finitebanjo
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      641 day ago

      It’s also almost funny that he’s trying to remove the parts of the museum that point it out. He’s trying to cover up the thing by doing it.