Reminder that these are the people we are dealing with here (2023 story below):
(This was later repealed IIRC, but not before first being approved.)
Florida’s public schools will now teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills, part of new African American history standards approved Wednesday that were blasted by a state teachers’ union as a “step backward.”
The Florida State Board of Education’s new standards includes controversial language about how “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,” according to a 216-page document about the state’s 2023 standards in social studies, posted by the Florida Department of Education.
Frankly, out of everything, I’m amazed at just how textbook it fucking is. It’s incredible. You’d think that it would be more subtle, more covert, maybe even slightly different so that people won’t suspect a thing, or hell, maybe even due to them already knowing that this is how it went in history and what the end result was
But no. It’s literally fucking, act for act, the exact same shit. I can hardly believe it. It’s so… I don’t even know what the appropriate word for it is
It really is something
My personal, non-scholarly opinion: He’s known to be intimately familiar with Mein Kampf, and he’s clearly broadly overconfident and narcissistic. He probably read it, watched some WWII documentaries, and thought “This guy was ahead of his time. He was a genius, almost like me. I just have to do exactly what he did, but not screw it up.”