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irelephant [he/him] to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 23 hours ago

White House says slavery is being taught wrong, should not be so negative

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White House says slavery is being taught wrong, should not be so negative

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irelephant [he/him] to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 23 hours ago
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  • Lovable Sidekick
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    7•2 hours ago
    WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?
    
    • @altphoto@lemmy.today
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      2•57 minutes ago

      Yes! Are they fucking retarded?

  • @deathbird@mander.xyz
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    You can’t understand progress without an understanding of historical reality.

  • JaggedRobotPubes
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    14•4 hours ago

    There we go.

  • @collapse_already@lemmy.ml
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    33•6 hours ago

    I feel like the only way to teach them that slavery is wrong is to enslave them. I will personally volunteer to recreate the whipping scene from Roots for everyone who thinks slavery wasn’t so bad. Starting with the orange.

    • @muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works
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      1•54 minutes ago

      They would just claim your form of slavery is that what slavery was actually like back then. These people don’t want to learn or improve themselves. They want to be able to say “I win” without having to actually do anything.

    • @Typotyper@sh.itjust.works
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      5•3 hours ago

      Don’t forget the rape.

      • @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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        7•3 hours ago

        Pass

    • @Pussycuntisseur@lemmynsfw.com
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      9•6 hours ago

      Exposure therapy one crack at a time

  • @QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works
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    31•7 hours ago

    It’s almost as if racism is a core value among American conservatives.

    • @Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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      1•1 hour ago

      Don’t forget pedophilia.

  • One2many
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    25•7 hours ago

    So, teaching the horrors of slavery is woke now? They are just telling on themselves now.

  • @Agent641@lemmy.world
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    18•7 hours ago

    People sang more back then. There were hardly any workers comp claims. And it kept kids off their dang iPhones.

  • @postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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    16•7 hours ago

    The logic:

    400 years of slavery but your great great grand grand kids have been taught 1 or 2 farming skills a piece.

    Oh, and we will be generous and only charge half price for those 400 years of your food and lodging.

    You owe us really…

    • @NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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      12•6 hours ago

      Did you even say thank you?

  • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9•6 hours ago

    Black people loved slavery. There. I cut out all the euphemisms and just got us to the end goal to save us some time.

    • @Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world
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      1•42 minutes ago

      Controversial, but efficient. I appreciate your work.

  • @Chivera@lemmy.world
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    6•6 hours ago

    I thought they were all about facts not caring about their feelings

    • @ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3•2 hours ago

      No, they were about facts not caring about your feelings. Where their feelings are involved, it’s the opposite; their feelings don’t care about facts.

  • @Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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    37•10 hours ago

    Whitehouse is not sane and should not be given any credence

    • @postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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      5•7 hours ago

      Can we just start revolting yet?

      • @Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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        3•7 hours ago

        We can but pulling logistics online leaves us open to plan spying by the enemy. Even using Signal is not secure enough if the govt military can be outed on it

        • @KeenFlame@feddit.nu
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          1•2 hours ago

          The people rising up would include most of the military. If not literally all

          • @Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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            1•2 hours ago

            If they were rising up on our side, we could have the legislature and the whitehouse cleaned out in no time. They would more likely rise up on the govts side

        • @Aspharr@lemmy.world
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          2•5 hours ago

          To be fair to Signal, they kinda outed themselves by including that journalist in the chat. That’s not really a fault of signal. But they also shouldn’t have been using signal in the first place, so there’s that.

  • @LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
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    12•8 hours ago

    Bruh

  • @Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    36•13 hours ago

    museums should start showcasing trumps epstein and russian collusions in thier exhibits.

  • LousyCornMuffins
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    30•15 hours ago

    When I was in middle school, we had to make a list of pros and cons of slavery for classwork. I remember it being homework but I can’t see that bullshit flying if the parents knew.

    • @Demdaru@lemmy.world
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      I like it honestly. Remove the idiocratic “Because it’s bad, duh”.

      No. Make your research. Understand the problem. Feel the problem. See how far it gone, and why people used that, and what was the price to pay.

    • HobbitFoot
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      I feel like there are two ways that list could go.

      The first is trying to whitewash slavery. The second is trying to help students understand why horrible things like this happen; why did entire economic systems get built for such a horrific practice.

      • @Aneb@lemmy.world
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        why did entire economic systems get built for such a horrific practice.

        Lol we are still under oppressive economic systems meant to strip us of our identities and leave us as worker slaves barely making ends meet but still deciding between medication or food. We live in the greatest country in the world /s

        • HobbitFoot
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          So don’t teach about slavery?

    • @jonesey71@lemmus.org
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      Pros: Removes any ambiguity about who the shitbags are.

      Cons: Now good people have to kill the shitbags to free the slaves.

      • @UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        The JohnBrowncoats vs the Brownshirts

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      wtf ?

    • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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      Southern state?

    • @Glytch@lemmy.world
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      19•14 hours ago

      Pros and cons from who’s perspective?

      • @SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world
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        3•6 hours ago

        That, detective, is the right question.

        • @KeenFlame@feddit.nu
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          1•2 hours ago

          Skip, tldr; the god perspective, it wasn’t the right question and wasted time. Obviously the perspective of the reader which if mentally stable understand the god perspective and thereby learn from it.

    • @RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
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      Pro: Less work for me

      Con: More work for them

  • @ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
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    after 200 years, the house finally lives up to its name.

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      deleted by creator

    • Spaz
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      Priceless

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