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Advocates say new Florida standards require slavery to be taught as 'beneficial' (www.wmfe.org)
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The Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for teaching African American history in the state.

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[–] keltaris@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The Florida Department of Education says the new standards don’t teach that slavery was beneficial.

However, one of the benchmarks (SS.68.AA.2.3) states students will be taught, “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

Anyone able to think of a good argument for explicitly requiring this? I'm having trouble thinking of why you'd call this out in the standards unless, you know, you are a fan of slavery...

[–] HolyDuckTurtle@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds like one of those things they can defend as "technically the truth" which will slowly have the context around it eroded until it looks entirely positive.

[–] VoterFrog@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

"Slaves were given free food, housing, and job skills! They were basically treated like family."

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