• Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    talking about the kind of things textbooks used to peddle as recently as the 90s.

    As recently as the '90s? Or as recently as last year.

    The Florida State Board of Education’s new standards [as of 2023] includes controversial language about how “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit”

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      As recently as the 90s in my area, I should have said. I… don’t doubt that many areas are still fucking terrible on the matter, both by use of old textbooks and by whatever the fuck the GOP is pushing in red states.