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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]

THIS ^^.  What a bunch of poseurs.  [/quote]

You semiliterate goon.  Scroll back a few pages to the examples from actual recent textbooks talking about how they were just "African workers" and that slavery was not so bad.  There's pleny more where that came from, if you'd bother to actually do some reading.[/quote]

No. People are well aware that slavery is part of our history.  You are rewriting history by claiming that knowledge of slavery has been suppressed.

I mean, bruh.  We all read Huckleberry Finn.  [/quote]

Oh come on.  I didn't see anyone on this thread claiming knowledge of slavery was suppressed.  But it has definitely been downplayed and misrepresented in curricula and textbooks including some current ones (Texas for example has some real doozies), and a lot of what followed up into the present has not been well taught.  That's definitely a fact.[/quote]

People are claiming this. I am friends mostly with liberals and the big trend right now is to pretend we didnt learn about slavery at school, or to pretend we were taught it was NBD.

No. I was never taught that. I was taught that Lincoln was heroic, that slaves fought on both sides-- sometimes being forced to fight for their own enslavement with the confederacy, and that our nation was nearly brought to an end over the issue. Definitely never taught that it was a minor thing.  And it would be very difficult to portray it that way given the literal civil war.  I am not going to pretend I just found out slavery was a huge issue. [/quote]

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