Reminder that these are the people we are dealing with here (2023 story below):
(This was later repealed IIRC, but not before first being approved.)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.
The Smithsonian features a ton of examples of success. The Air and Space Museum in particular is a monument to American achievement.
100%
I meant to comment that it’s very clear he’s either never been to any of the museums or literally walked through without looking around himself a single time. (And I have this same comment about museums generally, IME, aside from things like the Holocaust Museum (obv).)
Walked through…? No. If they allow golf carts there’s a chance he’s sped through, mowing down toddlers right and left, yelling about how slavery was great.
But they do it has a different name, though
Nobody tell Trump the name of the bomber that nuked Hiroshima
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/03/10/dei-enola-gay-wwii/
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