Reminder that these are the people we are dealing with here (2023 story below):

New Florida standards teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills

(This was later repealed IIRC, but not before first being approved.)

Florida’s public schools will now teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills, part of new African American history standards approved Wednesday that were blasted by a state teachers’ union as a “step backward.”

The Florida State Board of Education’s new standards includes controversial language about how “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,” according to a 216-page document about the state’s 2023 standards in social studies, posted by the Florida Department of Education.

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    This is your friendly reminder of the original meaning of “woke”, which the fascists are trying to erase because it directly threatens the willful ignorance they depend on:

    Woke: aware of systemic discrimination and abuse, particularly but not exclusively racism.

    That’s it. That’s the basic requirement for being an informed citizen that they want to erase to make it easier to get everyone to conform to their fascist groupthink.

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    Yeah right!!! Why are they not talking about the future!!

    Definition of a museum:

    museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects.

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    #“how bad slavery was”

    #DO NOT LET THIS PASS!!! THIS CUNT IS THE REINCARNATION OF A SOUTHERN SLAVE TRADER!

    Mario’s brother we need you more than ever.

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    To be fair slavery never really went away on the United States.

    It’s just dressed up a little differently.

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    BTW, he definitely did not write this one himself.

    I can almost see how his PR drones developed over time, they are now trying to integrate some of his “STYLE” into their tweets truths lies.

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    how bad slavery was

    Yeah…

    Dear black republicans, they will get you working the fields again given the chance.

    Fascists know no loyalty.

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    So where are the trump/Epstein files?

    Maybe they can display those in the museum?

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    You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. -Bob Dylan

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      Frankly, out of everything, I’m amazed at just how textbook it fucking is. It’s incredible. You’d think that it would be more subtle, more covert, maybe even slightly different so that people won’t suspect a thing, or hell, maybe even due to them already knowing that this is how it went in history and what the end result was

      But no. It’s literally fucking, act for act, the exact same shit. I can hardly believe it. It’s so… I don’t even know what the appropriate word for it is

      It really is something

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        But no. It’s literally fucking, act for act, the exact same shit. I can hardly believe it. It’s so… I don’t even know what the appropriate word for it is

        My personal, non-scholarly opinion: He’s known to be intimately familiar with Mein Kampf, and he’s clearly broadly overconfident and narcissistic. He probably read it, watched some WWII documentaries, and thought “This guy was ahead of his time. He was a genius, almost like me. I just have to do exactly what he did, but not screw it up.”

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      It’s also almost funny that he’s trying to remove the parts of the museum that point it out. He’s trying to cover up the thing by doing it.