GOP? That terminology speaks extremely loudly like Democrats! And yeah TX is full of them!
I think history books should tell everything the way it happened - good OR bad! History is just that - history. We can easily learn from the stupid mistakes as well as the smart decisions that were made. Wiping out statues, just because someone owned slaves is complete bullshit!
In 100yrs, someone's gonna wanna take down a statue because people used gasoline cars. That's the stupidity of the left.
It ain't the GOP that was tearing statues. It's Democrats, leftists, progressives, liberals, woke assholes that insist on changing things. Calling women "birthing persons" (?), erasing American history by tearing down statues of historical figures because THEY don't like them. It ain't the GOP demanding reparations 160yrs after slavery was abolished - a practice that was excessively pervasive throughout the world at that time. That "change" crap is specifically from the left.
History should be factual, even though some people don't like facts. If history is rewritten, then it's no longer history. It's fantasy.
If they're embarrassed by history, then they should use that knowledge to make sure the present and future are better, but we should never hide the parts we're uncomfortable with.
Facts can't be changed, no matter how much some people may want to, and history is a collection of facts: names, dates, places, etc.
Of course not! We should never rewrite history! History should be accurately told as it happened. What kids learn today if a rewritten version or blatant lies and make believe. Our history isn't perfect. America has it's flaws. But the greatness of this country is that, until recent years, the people have continued to try to correct the mistakes made before. That expression, "You do the best you can until you know better" applies. America has learned and changed and done better in our history and that is exemplary! Look around the globe for another country that has been so effective at corrected the mistake while maintaining the foundational principles. The past is real and should be taught so that people understand the sacrifices and hard work it took to keep America a great nation, the greatest ever above all others!
What if the only way for a person to have value or be worthy of love and respect is for them to have never offended anyone, made any mistakes, wronged anyone deliberately or by negligence, and to always change their values and beliefs to suit the loudest voices around them? It's ridiculous ! No living person would ever meet the standard!
The basic term is broad. There are many forms of slavery. Not all is 1:1 chattel slavery.
"Involuntary relocation" sounds like someone's attempt to sound sophisticated, when what they mean to say is kidnapping.
They're claiming with that change of vocabulary that the worst part of what happened wasn't the forced servitude, but the fact that millions were displaced from their homes to support a system that should have never been so reliant on such tactics to procure a workforce.
Otherwise, it's obvious that they aren't calling it trafficking, because they wish to dissociate the slave trade of old from its illegal, sexually predatory modern cousin.
It sounds like academics trying to sound smarter than they really are, regardless of party affiliation.
Is that a guess regarding their motives, or an accusation? My family on the maternal side were all northerners with no slaves. The paternal side didn't exist in America until just before the start of WWI, as they fled the Kaiser, because they knew what was coming. They didn't trust him as far as he could be launched from a cannon.
Black chattel slavery is nowhere in my history. It's a footnote reminder that humanity in general has never stopped inventing forms of cruelty, not since almost the dawn of time.
The only way to do that now, would be to get rid of the Clintons' policies, which made certain that black incarceration rates skyrocketed, even for the pettiest reasons.
Neil Shanks, clinical assistant professor of middle and secondary education at Baylor University told The Hill that involuntary relocation isn’t an unknown term in social studies—“(it) has relationships to refugees and forced displacement due to violence or ethnic cleansing,” he said.
It needs to be watered down so certain people can stop using it as a crutch to continue to suck in life. Plus I like the subtle knife twisting in the backs of race hustlers. Kind of like payback for "peaceful protest."
In the age of rampant propaganda, it is nearly required to propagandize right back, if simply to have fun with useful idiots i. e. like Michael Malice does on Twitter. Its clown world bro! Its all over! Truth is relative now. Accuracy means missing the target by 30 ft and hitting someones pet bunny in the next county!
I thought the movie was pretty meh actually. Science has been shot in the back of the head 12 times and tossed in a ditch the moment this crap became mainstream with national level recognition.
Sounds a bit like propaganda given your provided: 1: No spesfic details of the plan to discuss or even know what its refering to. 2: No spesfic evidence of it being widely supported Agenda among a political party as claimed. 3: Your using typical trigger concepts which nobody has supported for 100+ years
There are people, I'm not kidding, in fact a lot of people from the south have already been taught a bunch of nonsense, like the civil war wasn't about slavery. It's a testimony to how misinformation that appeals to peoples prejudice can convince people of the most absurd lies. Look at Rupert Murdoch's empire of lies. He's done more damage to democracy that any living person.
Yes, luckily people dont remember a lot from school. And universities clear up a lot of nonsense, even in the south. I took courses at LSU before graduating in Texas and the historical dept was accurate.
I took history as a minor and am always learning, reading etc. My history teacher in highschool kept all the various history books from years past and from southern states during Jim Crow to show the different biases and omissions. I read all of them, it was enlightening and made me a better researcher. Taught me to seek many different sources and recognize bias.
Yeah that's double talk... but the left does it to. Repubs pander to the right, and Dems pander to the left.
There's a lot of cancel culture bullshit going on. As a white guy you try to be proud of your heritage and American history... and all they can do is throw slavery in your face. So people are getting tired of it, and tried of hearing about it. Time to move on.
The fuck are you talking about dumbass? They were VERY different parties by the time of the Civil War. The Dems were the slaveowners. Maybe you need to re-read that history book of yours. Or get a real one.
In essence it's a forced vote from 50.- 60 years old Republicans who are on no doubt like Trump early onset Alzheimer's Disease and medical care or treatment for Dementia.
well that's bullshit, cause "involuntary relocation" was just one aspect of that whole slavery thing. the "being forced to work for someone against your will" aspect is totally ignored by calling it that.
It's a Straight-Up Lie. It doesn't even acknowledge slavery by calling it Involuntary Relocation. Involuntary Relocation would be like a Court Order forcing Stubborn Home Owners to move because a Real Estate Developer wanted to build a Shopping Center.
Yeah. School would be retarded if students are just taught false information/stupid things that have no relevance in education. Like, that LAGYTQH bs or whatever for instance
Yeah id say this goes into nationalist territory where the good of the state is always #1. It would be best for the US to frget slavery happened instead of paying reparations, which hasn't been done in 150 years
I don't agree with paying someone's ancestors reparations for something my ancestors did. But I do believe it's my duty to know about and learn why what they did was wrong.
He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it, no?
We could make full double speak, politically correct, Democrat sentences.
Like: “the economically disadvantaged were forcibly relocated and restored to a status of servitude to provide a positive cash flow situation for cooperate farms.”
Are you saying it didn't happen? Just the proposal is repulsive.
"A group of Texas educators have proposed to the Texas State Board of Education that slavery should be taught as “involuntary relocation” during second grade social studies instruction." - These are official advisors.
How about maths? Doesn't that make children feel uncomfortable?
Why yes, teaching 7 year old's about slavery is repulsive. What exactly is wrong with this? Why in the fuck should we be teaching 2nd graders about slavery? Half of these kids can't even read yet.
hundreds of thousands of us dying for their freedom, the right to vote (pre-colonial Africa mostly wasn't democratic), a high standard of living, education, affirmative action, allowing them into universities with lower scores than us, forcing many white employees to take diversity classes which coddle people of color and demean white people, not simply rounding up all the bloods and crips and putting them in jail as China would do but no even though they threaten us too we don't want to put the innocent in jail along with the guilty, shall I go on?
No but I think that the improvement in black people's lives does. In taking things for granted liberals only seem to see how much more somebody else has. If you had a palace you would complain that your neighbor's palace was bigger.
