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I'm not going to pretend that we havent been teaching slavery, the Underground Railroad, segregation and Jim Crow in schools. I learned about this in school. So did you. That is how we all know about it.  [/quote]
So the question is, do you think our kids should continue learning about slavery?  I feel like most people would say yes. Slavery is part of our history. It happened.
But...if you purposely mislabel the teaching of slavery as "critical race theory" then you can muddy the waters without seeming overtly racist. It's a dog whistle.

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/06/29/florida-teachers-raise-concerns-about-new-civics-training-say-it-downplays-slavery-promotes-originalism/[/quote]

Yes. Literally no one is advocating for the removal of history lessons about slavery.  In fact, I think the lessons need to go further with actual names of significant slaves in history, such as notable military figures, Sally Hemmings and Thomas Jefferson's kids, etc.

CRT has nothing to do with teaching history accurately. [/quote]

You don't know what CRT is or isn't, other than it's a convenient bogeyman word to trigger the right wing.[/quote]

And you think that no one learned about slavery in schools until BLM showed up. We all just fell off the apple cart, not sure who Harriett Tubman is, learning about slavery through vague rumors.  [/quote]

There's actually still a non-trivial percentage of Americans who were taught that it was a "War of Northern Aggression" and that the Civil War was about states' rights, not about slavery, that slavery was going to end anyhow, and in some cases even that slavery was good for blacks.  There's also a non-trivial percentage of people who are completely unaware that many blacks still living today suffered under Jim Crow and segregation, and never heard of things like redlining, and are completely unaware that anti-black biases still persist in lending, hiring, policing and so on.[/quote]

The civil war did involve arguments about states rights, and some scholars think slavery would have ended with less death if we hadnt had the civil war. That doesnt make slavery less of an evil. These things can be true without minimizing the evil of slavery.

The idea that slavery was good for black people is an opinion (a dumb one).  I dont believe that Americans with high school diplomas have never heard of segregation. Ruby Bridges is iconic, her image is one of the most iconic photos in American history.  [/quote]

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