can't believe this is a real headline
can't believe this is a real headline
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This doesn’t have to be controversial, just read the confederate state’s declarations of succession. The cause of the civil war isn’t open for interpretation. The people who succeeded litterally wrote down and formally publicized their reasons.
none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states
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Don't forget the part where if you joined the Confederacy you signed:
"No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in Negro slaves shall be passed.”
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and a blow at slavery is a blow at civilization
Oh fuck if I had three wishes one of them would be to get a hatchet and get into a ring with whatever fucktard wrote that.
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Yeah, but have you considered that both sides bad?
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They barely teach about it as it is. My daughter's social studies textbook had page after page about Marbury v. Madison and two paragraphs about Harriet Tumbman.
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Harriet Tubman was a great hero, but she did not shape society. Marbury v. Madison established judicial review, which allows the SC to strike down laws as unconstitutional. That's massive. Brown v. Board of Education or Roe v. Wade rely on that.
Judicial review has been adopted by republics around the world (though not all). Writing as a European, I believe it's a greatly underappreciated US contribution to global culture and the cause of democracy and human rights.
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Recently watched a drunk history episode about spies, one of the segments featured Harriet Tubman. Absolutely worth a watch, you can find it on YouTube free.
Did you know she was Americas first female military leader? I didn’t till I saw that! And I got a half decent education where they didn’t gloss over slavery (helps I grew up in NY).
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I would watch a whole movie with Octavia Butler as Drunk History Harriet Tubman. That shit was awesome.
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Can't have schools teaching about slavery in the land of the free. It just doesn't fit with the theme.
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It was always about bringing slavery back.
Ever since we shed blood to end it, they've been trying to bring it back.
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Slavery never ended.
Ever see those stupid laws like “don’t ride a horse on a Sunday?” Or look at when “vagrancy” laws were passed, or differences in sentencing between crack and coke.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Look at prison rates and racial backgrounds in the south. Look at how felonies are used to disenfranchise. Look at the war on drugs.
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It's what the majority of white voters want
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#LandOfTheFree
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Source article?
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There's a lot but here's a reasonable one:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-threatens-defund-schools-teach-155006275.html
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“Let’s say.. they just decide … ‘Oh, we’re gonna get rid of…history,” Kilmeade posed. “We got new history. This is America built off the backs of slaves on stolen land, and that curriculum comes in.”
“We don’t send them money,” Trump responded. “We would save half of our budget.”
So.. Wait. I heard about the controversy with CRT, but what's this? Are they really saying native Americans were treated fairly and slavery wasn't a big part of the southern economy??
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There isn't Just One Source article. It's been nearly 4 years worth of articles. Across many different publications. Look up anything where conservatives mention woke. They use it as a code word. In context to mean either addressing issues of racial oppression and disparity. Or gender discrimination. Sometimes both in the same usage.
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In his 6min 1A speech the week after winning he’s going off about censorship and social media moderation. He asked Republican legislators to send retain your records letters to the universities in their states. He then said he was going to pull funding from all universities guilty of censorship/moderation not just going forward, but in the past as well.
He had a bit about never using the “labels” misinformation and disinformation going forward. It’s unclear if that piece is included in that threat to universities.
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This is just a continuation of the current indoctrination system. For example, they don't teach about the founding slavers either. Everything is a whitewash.
A culture that is founded on racist delusions and fantasies is not capable of teaching accurate history.
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1 out of every 5 Black voters voted for Trump.
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So 4 out of every 5 black voters voted against Trump.
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If a wishful white Trump voter voted voraciously, how many votes would a wishful white Trump voter vivaciously vote? More than one, I bet.
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No relation.
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Can't have those uppity workers understanding what you're trying to inflict upon them...
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you can't?
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Those of you with some knowledge and basic video capabilities might consider doubling down on youtube, and using your channel to pimp other video platforms like peertube in case of youtube censorship.
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in case ofyoutube censorship.Every corp will bend the knee, advertisers flocking back to twitter like some Mafia deal. Google is already facing antitrust laws so I'm sure they're willing to do what they can to get out of the shitter. Be mirroring your content regardless. And this goes further to services like Google photos, storage is relatively cheap.
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Try out the new America!!! Same shit taste, but now with even more racism!!!!
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They are probably still getting funds if they teach how positive and helpful slavery was to the victims, and how important slavery was for businesses to be profitable for the owners.
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Well at least the US will be like the rest of the civilized world. UK public school history:
- Battle of Hastings
- Henry VIII
- (Cromwell is briefly mentioned in passing)
- (Noticeably large gap)
- WWI + WWII (Churchill is briefly touched on)
- (Noticeably large gap)
- Cold War
No skeletons in our closet, we're a civil people!
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Olivia Benson would have voted for Trump. Stabler would have voted for Biden. (Not Harris, he wrote in Biden)
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ah yes the rape victim working as a detective solving rape crimes votes for the rapist-in-chief, makes sense
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What? No
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Benson definitely would have followed Trump around... investigating his rapes.
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Why not just cut out history education all together? It's not like anyone was paying attention anyway /s
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It makes them uncomfortable to talk about it. Or acknowledge it's lingering effects. It's much more uncomfortable for the people suffering the lingering effects. But that's not what's important./s
It doesn’t make them uncomfortable. They just don’t want people to know that they’re still doing it.
Well that is why it makes them uncomfortable. People knowing what they're doing:-)
Still doing it / going to significantly ramp it up. Think those immigrants are ever getting out of the camps? Nah, they'll just be free labor now. As will plenty of Americans.
Didn't you hear? The past was always better, and Now is always the low ebb in the decline of our civilization until we return to the values that made yesterday great.
If the past is somehow to blame for the problems of today, that might mean there was something wrong with the past. If that's the case, then maybe other things from the past have problems, including things that I like or benefit me personally, or that changing would imply a lot of big scary changes that I'm not ready for.
That's why attempts to talk about little mistakes from the past like chattel slavery, indigenous genocide, phillipino genocide or endemic discrimination and institutionalized racism are just attempts by bad people to tear down perfection and keep us from returning to a simpler, better time where those mistakes never happened.
Also this: https://youtu.be/AeN_SVoJet0