Florida's new Black history curriculum says "slaves developed skills" that could be used for "personal benefit"
Florida's new Black history curriculum says "slaves developed skills" that could be used for "personal benefit"
The lessons will be taught to sixth through eighth grade students this year.
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The damage DeSantis and Florida republicans are doing to the state’s educational curriculum will have catastrophic effects on an entire generation. It’s terrifyingly evil.
It's so weird to me, what do they expect to happen to the economy of their state when their workforce has such a poor education?
They simply do not care. That’s going to be someone else’s problem. Which is the fundamental problem with the modern Republican Party. They have no regard for the future.
But the other side of that is no political accountability. There's no risk of punishment, so why should they care? Insider trading, corruption, nepotism, general lying, acting in bad faith, and intentionally misrepresenting facts to disrupt useful debate.
Politicians get away with all of that and more, and get paid massive amounts of money, above and below the table, while they do it.
Yep, the Republican base has proven they'll vote for literally anyone with an (R) next to their name no matter how many felonies they commit. And because they're fanatics, they turn out to vote every time, no matter what.
The only way we get out of this nightmare is to hold the line, keep voting every cycle to keep the mainiacs out of power until the party inevitably implodes due to demographic shifts. Hopefully it'll happen soon, worrying about this shit is exhausting. But until then, we can't afford to be complacent.
Hey at least insider trading is a bipartisan effort!
I disagree with that statement. The Rs have a deep regard for the future. They are doing a fantastic job at making the next few generations capitolistic cogs.
They're keep people riled up about irrelevant fringe issues while totally dismantling education, Healthcare, and freedom of speech.
The Rs are playing the long game, and they're winning. (And to be fair, the Ds are doing their damn best to enable that behavior)
It's intentional. "Automation will take our jobs!" Has been used to scare people for centuries, but the reality is physical labour is expensive and tricky in many situations to automate. Which is why Amazon goes through people like they're me with a bag of chips. Power structures rely on large and ever-growing amounts of people with no formal education to do the physical work. This is one reason abortion rights are being rolled back in the US and nobody seems to care about what happens after a baby is born.
People with education are riskier because they might be able to compete with your incompetent nepotism hire. But you need people who are educated to go into professional industries so they can continue to automate existing jobs, which helps keep wages down. So that people can be legitimately scared of a robot or AI taking their job and losing their income.
Which keeps the old-money and their nepotism hire offspring comfortably at the top of the food chain.
The GOP doesn’t care about their constituents beyond the bare minimum required to get votes from them. They’ll do only what is needed to stay in office, even if that’s nothing except blame Democrats for everything possible.
They don't care, they (lawmakers) don't have their fortunes tied to Florida, but they do have their fortunes tied to Florida electorate voting D
They'll find a way to profit from the poorly educated, just like how they're doing it now. They'll find a way to spin this as a positive for the GDP
Tourism economy doesn't needs educated people.
I don't think they care. As long as the top 100 elite ultra rich people in Florida stay rich... They're good with burning down the state.
The folks whose support really matters to DeSantis are invested in other states and countries; they don't depend on the success of the Florida economy for their continued wealth.
They can import skilled immigrants to serve them, including in their hospitals and nursing homes. They can then ensure those workers remain non-citizens — meaning that they can be abused without any political recourse. So they don't need their own city's local children (who are mostly brown anyway, but are citizens — for the moment) to grow up to be doctors.
(Remember: Doctors are mostly working-class these days, in the technical Marxian sense: they work for a salary; heck, they may not even get equity. The elite can buy doctors abroad and keep 'em in their basements.)
Fascist strategy: To the working class, sell hate & cruelty for their entertainment, thus also providing a payoff to hate media outlets. To the rich, sell low taxes & no rights for the poors — but demand absolute political loyalty from business leaders, punishing political dissent even by the rich (see Disney). Get rid of birthright citizenship; establish a permanent racial servant underclass of immigrants without political rights.
2 people downvoted this. I wonder what colour hats they were wearing?
Lol right? I miss the days where if you found yourself in a crowd of red hats it meant you were at a Limp Bizkit concert rather than a Klan rally.
Republicans have been killing the educational system forever now it feels like
Everything wrong with our countru is 6 degrees from Reagan.
That is precisely the point. It is the official position of the GOP to push all children toward private Christian schools. Step 1 of that plan is obviously to make public education so incredibly terrible that people start asking for better access to private schools.
All of the seemingly stupid things this governor does to screw with education are at face abhorrent but also serve only to damage the educational system in Florida.
Honestly I feel like "educations" like these will cause damage for multiple generations, maybe even centuries out.
They've been doing this for decades. This isn't new. They got it so Texas approved the countries textbooks and it all kind of went downhill from there.