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Should Trump go to prison, Pence and DeSantis will be the first to act like they were tough and always supported holding him accountable.
That might be true if it was mandated in every instance where victims gained some skills. It is only mandated in this one particular instance in...
B. Is a silly thing to make a part of any curriculum. It is possible to gain something useful from any situation. That is true of someone who...
There are numerous groups who were victimized in our history. It is dishonest and offensive to suggest that any of them benefitted from their...
It's not a competition. I'm not saying one is worse, or the same as the other. Being made victims is horrible and trying to teach that the victims...
It could be if they needed work afterwards and could get job in the service or hospitality industry. There have also been links to mechanical...
That's the whole point. It is offensive to talk about victims of slavery or concentrations learning skills that could have helped them. But it is...
No buddy, I'm not. Did you even read my post?
Some people served time in the camps and were released when Allied troops came through at the end of the war.
I posted the link to it.
Some of them might have learned various persuasion skills, how to train the mind to endure hardships. They also did chores, made their beds, and...
It's more accurate to mandate it's inclusion. A more accurate representation would be that a very small minority of enslaved people were able to...
They didn't learn to read and write because of slavery. A tiny minority learned it in spite of slavery. Teaching that some enslaved people learned...
Except teaching that some folks learned something isn't a more complete picture of slavery anymore than teaching tortured prisoners of war learned...
It was illegal for slaves to learn to read and write. Almost that learned literacy did so against the laws at the time. In fact it was often even...
Question: Is that a significant and important part of the telling the history of American slavery? Question: Did some colonists during the...
Why would it be required to learn about any skills learned? Is that a significant aspect of the historical slavery practice? What an odd thing for...
I don't know if I would call these groups trying to whitewash the effects and intent of slavery supporters, but they also can't qualify as...
Accusing slavers and supporters of slavery of racism doesn't seem out of line or bad fixed position to take. That's literally the M.O. of the...