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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll just leave this here

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/us/florida-textbooks-african-american-history.html?unlocked_article_code=AdnkuX6flPbpPQMeLUC_Kiatj-5ADtr1jlYESnSpI464b62VxNZg8KyWOWs-pFSp5dMXDRNUpnuBKfDx38I4U7bK1-MLBTxnfD43iNJiN_SIhw8aimdD0gEE4es4blKyQ7jluruudf0-N3WfnpnTkFwg9BnLhnoyTqKkWQfHuGyT1Da7CU74IN_HdwVqx2gvsz5FCEwaKCbbQZmUKhg2IWFvFjf-40IqmaU37hq1duFZTNJIwmD4jRfGmlb-IiNSoBf8p0IGIQUwUX2Ne30pK5biwF5fRPyjnsqVJ9mlQtgKbbTXTgEKBlX6ZViYO9ydgk3bjfJeEevxrPJib33fTlTNZAhx7-d1MgQY26T4ZQ&smid=url-share[/quote]

WTF. Why are white people so scared of history? I wonder.

[quote]And in a sign of how fraught the political landscape has become, one publisher created multiple versions of its social studies material, softening or eliminating references to race — even in the story of Rosa Parks — as it sought to gain approval in Florida.

The Florida Citizens Alliance, a conservative group, has urged the state to reject 28 of the 38 textbooks that its volunteers reviewed, including more than a dozen by McGraw Hill, a major national publisher.

In a summary of its findings submitted to the state last month, the group complained that a McGraw Hill fifth-grade textbook, for example, mentioned slavery 189 times within a few chapters alone. Another objection: An eighth-grade book gave outsize attention to the “negative side” of the treatment of Native Americans, while failing to give a fuller account of their own acts of violence, such as the Jamestown Massacre of 1622, in which Powhatan warriors killed more than 300 English colonists.

In an attempt to cater to Florida, at least one publisher made significant changes to its materials, walking back or omitting references to race, even in its telling of the Rosa Parks story.

In the current lesson on Rosa Parks, segregation is clearly explained: “The law said African Americans had to give up their seats on the bus if a white person wanted to sit down.”

But in the initial version created for the textbook review, race is mentioned indirectly.

“She was told to move to a different seat because of the color of her skin,” the lesson said.

In the updated version, race is not mentioned at all.

“She was told to move to a different seat,” the lesson said, without an explanation of segregation.

It’s unclear which of the new versions was officially submitted for review. The second version — which doesn’t mention race — was available on the publisher’s website until last week.[/quote][/quote]

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