Report: Florida textbook altered Rosa Parks story to remove references to race

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  1. rja49 says

    The whole of America will face a similar overhaul under a future DeSantis government.

  2. Notsnowbound says

    Yes, in the 1950’s White women were arrested for sitting in the wrong section of the bus all the time…

  3. Happypappy007 says

    This is the path that dictatorships follow. DeSantis is a racist and a fascist. This is not the way.

  4. wwarnout says

    Florida – the new Mississippi (aka, worst state in the country)

  5. SchlampeDesu says

    I like to think im pretty middle of the road. I find both sides to be pretty awful, fanatical, and downright stupid and out of touch the further left/right they lean, but i wouldnt go as far as to wish ill will on them. I will, however, admit that i wouldnt feel too bad about it if desantis got hit by a bus.

  6. theflamingsword101 says

    *picard facepalm*

  7. stu8018 says

    When you start with “Florida textbook” it pretty much guarantees stupidity will follow.

  8. ksigley says

    Meatball fascism.

  9. zembriski says

    For those that don’t want to read the article…

    The publisher removed references to race in response to legislation that prohibits education that would require someone to feel guilt or anguish for the actions of their ancestors (super paraphrased there). The publisher rephrased the story to say that Parks was brave because she was told to move and didn’t. Florida responded by saying that the new changes didn’t teach the history of segregation and made the text unacceptable by their requirements to teach Black History.

    It’s not exactly FL DoE coming through with big dark markers crossing out references to race. It’s WAY more insidious than that. They’re effectively making it so that THEY are the only ones who can create and approved curriculum; once outside publishers throw up their hands in frustration with the impossible laws, FL will have free reign to teach whatever they want with little to no oversight from anywhere else.

  10. HowBoutaLittlePiss says

    So correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this is one of those nazi fascism things?

    Not a good look

  11. ux3l says

    Like that?

    >”a mid aged woman refused to offer her seat despite it being required by the transportation regulations/ local laws. She was arrested by police. Because of that many people started protesting on the streets.”

    How would it be worth being told as history then?

  12. person749 says

    Sensationalist headline. The textbook was rejected. From the article:

    >The Florida Department of Education suggested that Studies Weekly had overreached. Any publisher that “avoids the topic of race when teaching the Civil Rights movement, slavery, segregation, etc. would not be adhering to Florida law,” the department said in a statement, as reported by the Times.

    >The company’s curriculum is no longer under consideration by the state.

  13. lm28ness says

    So it begins.

  14. mymar101 says

    The Rosa parks story has no impact without race being mentioned. It’s literally the core of why it’s important

  15. Ryans4427 says

    Now the whole story is about the bus driver just being a big jerk.

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