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New Florida curriculum says slavery had “personal benefits” for slaves

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by GatorNorth, Jul 20, 2023.

  1. philnotfil

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    Repeatedly.
     
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  2. GatorNorth

    GatorNorth Premium Member Premium Member

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    It’s funny. I chose the Post link out of the 50 I saw so righties wouldn’t accuse me of using a liberal source, and now it’s criticized for being a tabloid.
     
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  3. GatorNorth

    GatorNorth Premium Member Premium Member

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    Not ignoring them at all. But calling limited manual labor skills procured during indentured servitude “a personal benefit” is akin to saying “sorry the psychopath murdered your parents but you got a life insurance payout as a benefit”.

    Have you ever said something like that to an aggrieved client? Doubtful.

    And if the state was truly interested in teaching “both sides” of history, you’d think they’d remember to mention that Florida seceded to the Confederacy, which isn’t mentioned at all in the new standards, while slaves getting benefits from slavery is.
     
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  4. rtgator

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    I suppose they'd say that prison time provided "personal benefits" to convicts if they learned how to make license plates.
     
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  5. gator95

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    Extremely insensitive/racist thing to put in the curriculum. I read through the curriculum and there are a few major issues that a few have pointed out. Need those corrected asap.
     
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  6. duchen

    duchen VIP Member

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    No. They are not. They know what they are doing. They are evil. They are like evil people before them. You see what they do as sick. They see a base of deplorables who are just like them and it is their path to power.
     
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  7. wgbgator

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    Well one of the 'benefits' was learning how to survive in a viciously racist country, but I'm guessing that didnt make the cut
     
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  9. rivergator

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    seems like nothing more than demanding that teachers teach that slavery wasn't all that bad. there were plenty of good things about it, too.
     
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  10. duchen

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    Of course they stayed in the south. And did what they knew how to do. Because that was all they were taught. They weren’t taught to read, be accountants or lawyers or principles of business. That were taught to be slaves and when fees, continued to have the mentality. And teaching that blacks remained in the south and did what they knows is not the same of the course. The lessons are racist.
     
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  11. swampbabe

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    This is the viewpoint of Hillsdale College. They had a heavy influence on these standards. It was also part of the civics seal program.
     
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  12. Gatorhead

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    I officially give up trying to meet pubs half way with Ron. I thought he was a better man than Trump, but he is infected by the same insanity.

    Haley for the GOP nomination!
     
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    Woke! This man is woke! Punish him!
    Racist Ron and his love of the Lost Cause.
     
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    Africa.

    That’s part of the complexity of history, especially the history involving slavery. Chattel slavery was a heinous system and the Atlantic Crossing horrendous. But the descendants of those slaves brought to America today enjoy the privilege of being Americans.

    Also, I think it’s ridiculous to claim learning blacksmithing is a benefit of being a slave. That’s like saying a benefit of living under Hitler was availability of Volkswagens.
     
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  15. wgbgator

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    The Dunning School is back baby
     
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    YIKES
     
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  17. wgbgator

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    Deep down I knew someone would not be able to resist, but I didnt think my post would prove accurate on this actual thread
     
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  18. GatorNorth

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    Millions of people immigrated to the US after slavery-Jews, Germans, Italians, Irish, etc.

    Pretty narrow world view (and that’s putting it nicely) to think Africans wouldn’t have come here on their own at some point as if being imprisoned on a slave ship was their only way over.
     
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  19. tampagtr

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    There was substantial Northern migration later when it was more practical. See Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns

     
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    What would be wrong with teaching the curriculum from the 1980's in school? We learned that slavery happened, it consisted of terrible living conditions for the slaves, had economic benefit for the white plantation owners and that it didn't get really any better for black people after the civil war.
     
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