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  • OT: Positively dystopian: Rosa Parks edition

    From Alan@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 17 14:22:45 2023
    XPost: can.politics

    'Florida textbook publisher Studies Weekly removed mention that Rosa
    Parks was Black from the lesson about the woman who helped ignite the
    Civil Rights Movement in the US by refusing to give up her seat to a
    white man. The company is attempting to get their materials approved by
    the Department of Education in a state where the governor, Ron Desantis, "signed legislation last year that prohibits instruction that could make students feel responsibility, guilt or anguish for what other members of
    their race did in the past," according to The Hill. The original version
    of the elementary school lesson stated: "The law said African Americans
    had to give up their seats on the bus if a white person wanted to sit down."

    Then it was changed to "She was told to move to a different seat because
    of the color of her skin." And most recently: "She was told to move to
    a different seat."'

    <https://boingboing.net/2023/03/17/florida-textbook-publisher-removes-mention-of-rosa-parkss-race-from-section-about-the-black-civil-rights-icon.html>

    The Rethuglican Party:

    Changing the US into Oceania one law at a time.

    I'd laugh except it is far too serious.

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  • From Duncan Patton a Campbell on atlas.i@21:1/5 to Alan on Fri Mar 17 21:58:26 2023
    XPost: can.politics

    On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 14:22:45 -0700, Alan wrote:

    'Florida textbook publisher Studies Weekly removed mention that Rosa
    Parks was Black from the lesson about the woman who helped ignite the
    Civil Rights Movement in the US by refusing to give up her seat to a
    white man. The company is attempting to get their materials approved by
    the Department of Education in a state where the governor, Ron Desantis, "signed legislation last year that prohibits instruction that could make students feel responsibility, guilt or anguish for what other members of their race did in the past," according to The Hill. The original version
    of the elementary school lesson stated: "The law said African Americans
    had to give up their seats on the bus if a white person wanted to sit down."

    Then it was changed to "She was told to move to a different seat because
    of the color of her skin." And most recently: "She was told to move to
    a different seat."'

    <https://boingboing.net/2023/03/17/florida-textbook-publisher-removes-mention-of-rosa-parkss-race-from-section-about-the-black-civil-rights-icon.html>

    The Rethuglican Party:

    Changing the US into Oceania one law at a time.

    I'd laugh except it is far too serious.

    Agreed. Good public education is a requirement of a modern society,
    and allowing Political Interests to dictate the content of what is
    taught amounts to a terminal social cancer.

    Dhu



    --
    Je suis Canadien. Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglais.
    C'est une esp`ece de sauvage: ne obliviscaris, vix ea nostra voco;-)
    Duncan Patton a Campbell

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