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Bass_X0
05/14/21 11:52:37 AM
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https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/texas-republicans-ban-teachers-racism_n_609a96c8e4b063dccea1a3ef

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The Trent
05/14/21 11:52:50 AM
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don't mess with texas

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Mezcla
05/14/21 11:53:08 AM
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are they gamefaqs mods?

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justaguy3492
05/14/21 11:54:22 AM
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Lol literally impossible to enforce.

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Illuminoius
05/14/21 12:11:35 PM
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the lengths people will go to to avoid discussing their country's shady history
as well as, you know, the ever-present issues that are still happening today
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Ruvan22
05/14/21 12:16:27 PM
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The part about teachers not having to take training that makes them uncomfortable though...
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Hayame Zero
05/14/21 12:20:16 PM
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It also states that social studies and civics teachers may not be compelled to discuss current events or widely debated and currently controversial issues of public policy or social affairs as part of a course.

That's...the entire point of the class.

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Solar_Crimson
05/14/21 12:23:05 PM
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Can we just drop Texas?

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DirkDiggles
05/14/21 12:26:45 PM
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We are turning into a alternate history dystopia. Next thing you know the GOP is telling teachers to teach kids that the South won.

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Hayame Zero
05/14/21 12:26:55 PM
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randy_123r posted...
Don't some people make the argument that racism will go away if we don't talk about it? That's what I read on a Gamespot youtube comment section about black people in game dev.
Racists LOVE that Morgan Freeman interview

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hockeybub89
05/14/21 12:27:56 PM
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Number090684
05/14/21 12:28:31 PM
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Illuminoius posted...
the lengths people will go to to avoid discussing their country's shady history
as well as, you know, the ever-present issues that are still happening today

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TheOtherMike
05/14/21 12:30:24 PM
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The Party of Projection strikes again, this time with literally trying to erase history.
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Number090684
05/14/21 12:31:09 PM
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randy_123r posted...
Don't some people make the argument that racism will go away if we don't talk about it? That's what I read on a Gamespot youtube comment section about black people in game dev.

A very small few have, but they are wrong. Even if we didn't talk about racism anymore as long as certain groups of people are allowed certain privileges over others based on skin color it will always exist.
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littlebro07
05/14/21 12:34:25 PM
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hockeybub89
05/14/21 12:35:11 PM
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UnfairRepresent
05/14/21 12:36:14 PM
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https://youtu.be/jMs1dwNu_eI

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butthole666
05/14/21 12:36:44 PM
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This is very bad and the people who are responsible are very bad but I will not refer to them directly because I have gotten modded for it before and do not want to lose my account :^]

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sktgamer_13dude
05/14/21 12:40:20 PM
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littlebro07 posted...
@coh I saw that


I missed it. What'd it say.
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littlebro07
05/14/21 12:42:41 PM
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sktgamer_13dude posted...
I missed it. What'd it say.

Fair, next. Schools should only be teaching math, science, reading, and writing.

Paraphrased the school part but the fair next part is verbatim

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coh
05/14/21 12:43:08 PM
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littlebro07 posted...
Fair, next. Schools should only be teaching math, science, reading, and writing.

Paraphrased the school part but the fair next part is verbatim
Well its true
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UnfairRepresent
05/14/21 12:43:57 PM
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littlebro07 posted...
Fair, next. Schools should only be teaching math, science, reading, and writing.

Paraphrased the school part but the fair next part is verbatim
Yikes

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littlebro07
05/14/21 12:43:59 PM
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coh posted...
Well its true

Banning anything being taught about racism is fair, next?


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Questionmarktarius
05/14/21 12:45:26 PM
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Hayame Zero posted...
That's...the entire point of the class.
All I remember is desperately trying to memorize European capitals, but that was back when there was two Germanies.
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Jabodie
05/14/21 12:47:48 PM
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Just yesterday I was reading an article about the debate of teaching Japanese atrocities in WW2 in Japanese schools. Apparently many Japanese people are not taught very much about those atrocities (focusing more on ancient history), and kind of lack the context necessary to understand international tensions stemming from it.

And of course there are people pushing to not mention them at all in textbooks. Kind of similar here.

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legendary_zell
05/14/21 12:54:21 PM
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Coh is straight up not a well adjusted human being.

He wants context less worker drones who know nothing about anything except for how to participate in capitalism and who can't question anything.

It's not even just right wing, it crosses over into territory you usually only see from fascists and theocrats.

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Hayame Zero
05/14/21 12:54:46 PM
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Jabodie posted...
Just yesterday I was reading an article about the debate of teaching Japanese atrocities in WW2 in Japanese schools. Apparently many Japanese people are not taught very much about those atrocities (focusing more on ancient history), and kind of lack the context necessary to understand international tensions stemming from it.
It wasn't until 15 years or so ago that Japan recognized that the Rape of Nanking even happened.

South Korea has also protested the Mimizuka - a monument filled with 38,000 noses of Koreans stolen as war trophies in the 16th century - that the Japanese government either A. doesn't even know about the contents of, or B. believes it should be venerated to recognize the conflict of their ancestors.

They have a pretty fucked way of recognizing history that seems to intersect with arbitrary codes of honor.

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Relient_K
05/14/21 12:56:03 PM
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Not talking about racism makes me uncomfortable.

It'a major issue that needs to be addressed, and the best tool is education.

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Nemu
05/14/21 12:56:31 PM
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Why does everything need to go to dumb extremes? Like we've certainly seen a few dumb fringe cases like trying to get small children who can barely read to understand the race relations, but this measure is otherwise stupid.
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FlameTurtle
05/14/21 12:56:46 PM
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legendary_zell posted...
Coh is straight up not a well adjusted human being.

He wants context less worker drones who know nothing about anything except for how to participate in capitalism and who can't question anything.

It's not even just right wing, it crosses over into territory you usually only see from fascists and theocrats.
Theres a reason he loses his mind whenever someone says that fascists are terrible people.

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hockeybub89
05/14/21 12:58:29 PM
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Coh might be on to something.

Why do we need history books and history class when we have statues and monuments to teach us history?

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Questionmarktarius
05/14/21 1:04:10 PM
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hockeybub89 posted...
Why do we need history books and history class when we have statues and monuments to teach us history?
Is that why there's a small stone outside of the Greenwood area of Tulsa with "Nothing happened here on May 31, 1921. Don't look it up, please." carved into it?
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Heineken14
05/14/21 1:04:55 PM
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The same assholes who cry about liberals trying to erase history when they want confederate statutes removed from government property are the same dipshits who are trying to pretend racism never happened.
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sktgamer_13dude
05/14/21 1:12:00 PM
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coh posted...

Well its true

UnfairRepresent posted...

Yikes

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Relient_K
05/14/21 1:17:29 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Is that why there's a small stone outside of the Greenwood area of Tulsa with "Nothing happened here on May 31, 1921. Don't look it up, please." carved into it?

Well that's a thing I know now. Almost 100 years ago and the south has barely changed.

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Questionmarktarius
05/14/21 1:18:42 PM
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Relient_K posted...
Well that's a thing I know now. Almost 100 years ago and the south has barely changed.
Dude. You weren't supposed to look that up.
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brestugo
05/14/21 1:21:57 PM
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I guess they can't teach Texas history since the independent Texas Republic was founded on the refusal to grant equal citizenship rights to blacks, native Americans and some Mexicans. Oh and they wanted a "peculiar institution" called slavery too.

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hockeybub89
05/14/21 1:24:32 PM
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brestugo posted...
I guess they can't teach Texas history since the independent Texas Republic was founded on the refusal to grant equal citizenship rights to blacks, native Americans and some Mexicans. Oh and they wanted a "peculiar institution" called slavery too.
Yeah but that's not racism because "times were different" and "that's how everyone thought"

/sarcasm

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Snip-N-Snails
05/14/21 11:34:53 PM
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sabin017
05/14/21 11:47:44 PM
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Damn, so under this there goes that time one of my teachers openly shared a childhood experience where his family was served burgers embedded with dead flies. Guess it never happened.

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brestugo
05/15/21 12:07:20 AM
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Snip-N-Snails posted...
oklahoma just did this
https://truthout.org/articles/new-oklahoma-bill-bans-teaching-about-racism-because-it-causes-discomfort/
"Sooners" were literally people who just lined up at the border and raced to settle land taken at gunpoint 'ceded' by Native Americans.

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goldenBoi45
05/15/21 12:09:15 AM
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Hayame Zero posted...
Racists LOVE that Morgan Freeman interview
You gotta give him credit, though. He basically wrote the ultimate house***** speech

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coh
05/15/21 12:34:56 PM
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CrimsonRage posted...
@coh, come onnnn explain this one. iirc, you like military history so why shouldn't history be taught in schools? :v
It should be. I didnt say otherwise
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RchHomieQuanChi
05/15/21 12:40:31 PM
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But what happened to "remembering history" and not trying to pretend like it didn't happen?

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