"We want the classes to be politically neutral. As such, we've removed any references to slavery, as it may offend conservative students to learn that conservatives have always been vile pieces of shit."
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You would think it would be cheaper to teach the truth than to afford all that extra white paint for all the history books.
It’s do sad that “conservatives hiding any facts that effect the believability of their racist narrative” is what they actually mean by “politically neutral.”
No, but you see, democrats were the bigger racists then.
And the parties totally never swapped political orientations. Now stop asking why I would want to preserve this "democrat" statue of a racist rebel.
Coming soon: Missouri black history curriculum says blacks learned useful skills from slavery.
There is no 'politically neutral' way to teach black history. And they know this.
a new curriculum “that is rigorous and largely politically neutral
Those are mutually exclusive. When one side of the political divide wants to rewrite history to make it seem like white people in the past were blameless, no rigorous curriculum can be anywhere near politically neutral.
To some people, any talk of race comes across as playing the "race card". The chance that they were taught next to nothing about the experience and history of other races/classes in this country is very high.
Thankfully, some of us struck out on our own to research the experiences and history of people of color in the U.S. But not enough do and not enough is taught by any means.