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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A Virginia high school student might feel uncomfortable learning about slavery. Obviously white kids will see themselves as the slavers and thus will feel criticized to learn how awful slavery was.

If  white kids can only see themselves as the slave owners, what does that say about how they view their classmates of color?[/quote]

What??  No one is objecting to the teaching of factual history, including slavery.  Amazing how you continue to twist and spin what the actual issue is.  [/quote]

They're just objecting to teaching that there are still repercussions in today's world because of race-based slavery and legal segregation, which ended only a half century ago. And they're against making white kids "uncomfortable" when they hear that slavery was based on racism because of centuries of whites believing blacks to be inferior, and learn how truly awful  many white people of their grandparent's generation--not that long ago-- treated black people, and that some of the practices of legal segregation, including redlining, still have ramifications in today's world. They don't want their kids to think about how black Americans today might still be affected by the legal racism their parents/grandparents/ancestors faced, in terms of family wealth accumulation, neighborhoods they grew up in (and what that means for their trajectory in life), etc.  The horror of learning that kind of thinking history! Apparently it makes white kids feel too guilty to think, instead of memorizing rote facts.

Wonder if German-Americans can petition that schools not talk about how centuries of virulent antisemitism, including institutional antisemitism and legal regulations that kept Jews apart from society, along with a particular German culture of obedience led to the horrors of the Holocaust, and to hear that antisemitism still exists in Germany (and elsewhere) today, since it might make people of German ancestry feel uncomfortable.[/quote]

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