This is what happens when sociopaths without empathy are allowed to write educational policy.
In canada there are bigots who claim that the residential schools were good for the indigenous peoples too.
In these schools, kids were ripped away from their families and homes and beaten until they stopped using their language and culture. The written goal of the school was to take the savage out of the Indian.
How anyone can try to spin these horrific events into a positive is beyond disgusting.
WHAAAAT Canada is racist too? It was supposed to be civilized USA! /s
I stopped believing Canada were “The sane version of America” when they adopted the “Running a mild fever eh? Have you considered euthanasia?” policy
I’m fine with Right To Death, but it’s when you start pushing it on vulnerable people to “free up a few beds” that I find it immoral.
Did the catholic church apologize for the mass graves of native canadians found near those schools yet? I know the churches of other denominations that ran these schools have issued apologies.
This is wild. I hope they get sued and lose horribly.
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I’ll believe they believe it when they offer themselves up to become slaves.
It taught them skills. lmao like what running away really fast?
Slavery was terrible for anyone black.
Not just them. Especially them. Slavery hurts everyone who works. We should gut slavery from the 13th amendment completely. The 13th amendment carve out for slavery is directly related to our racially disparate, booming prison populations. And zero focus on actual rehabilitation and assistance to help people out of those cycles. That would be bad for the steady involuntary workforce in many states.
I don’t know who got blackmailed into doing what but wow
I don’t know who got blackmailed into doing what but wow
https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/20653/urlt/6-4.pdf The actual new standards can be found here. This is one bullet point in a sea of new standards,
Point SS.68.AA.2.3 “Examine the various duties and trades performed by slaves (e.g., agricultural work, painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic service, blacksmithing, transportation). Benchmark Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
I don’t think this is that terrible. It’s not quite as absurd as “BLACKS BENEFITED FROM SLAVERY!” It seems worth mentioning that the skills developed during servitude may have contributed to their ability to integrate into society post-slavery. I mean, the whole paper is chock full of things that show slavery in a negative light. I don’t think there were negative intentions in this. You can count on the news to write a good headline, though.
I don’t think this is that terrible.
It a complete vacuum, maybe not. In the context of other stuff Florida has done lately, and just Republicans in general…
I can say that without even checking also. There’s virtually no chance whatsoever that Democrat officials were behind it.
It’s not quite as absurd as “BLACKS BENEFITED FROM SLAVERY!”
There’s a lot of space between that and where something stops really, really sucking.
The development of skills is entirely irrelevant when you think about what skills they would have had if they were never enslaved in the first place
Shhh, you’re interrupting the circle-jerk!
