Texas GOP Pushes to Whitewash American History for Schoolchildren

[Hindsight was 2020]

While to say the Texas Revolution was driven by slavery is a unfair reading of the political situations driving the revolution at the time it’s equally disingenuous to ignore that slavery was a big factor in why “the elites” driving the revolution wanted to get out of Mexico

[Hindsight was 2020]

Remember that most textbooks in the south used to romanticize slavery and portray slaves as happy and loving their owners. Conservatives have always used the education manipulate the future electorate through culture. They claim that removing the stars and bars and confederate statues is erasing history when they are the ones actual manipulate history.

An Alabama history textbook said slavery was a form of social security and that slave owners treated slaves well.

 Everything is projection with the right. They know that they've lied about American history, that's why they see the most meager attempts to begin to correct the record as such a serious threat.

The difference is that very few history teachers are teaching right-wing lies.

Wouldn't necessarily go that far, but it's clear that in America, left-wing lies are more often taught than right-wing ones in context of the schools.

For the most part, public schools seem to conform to the prevailing politics of the community. I grew up in the suburbs of Portland, a notoriously "progressive" city, and so in most of the history classes I took beyond elementary school I had to endure constant guilt-tripping over how much white people made blacks and Indians suffer. In rural conservative areas, I would imagine you get more of the "shining city on a hill" type rhetoric, extolling the virtues of great god-fearing patriots. In either case, lies and ideology are placed above historical truth.

 I call B.S. on this, what exactly was in your history curriculum that was guilt tripping whites about? Explain an example or cite something, reference a textbook because I don't believe you and would like to actually see an example of this.


 

It's the same typical nonsense you get in some universities about how the wealth of America, and that of white people in particular, is essentially due only to slavery and Native genocide, how everything was taken from them and they were given scraps in return, and of course naturally being a suburban Portland school with 95+ percent white students this is likely going to generate a great deal of shame. It wasn't an explicit part of the curriculum to "guilt trip whites," it was more of the manner in which it was conveyed. It was in public high school where I first came into contact with concepts like "white privilege," which I remember being taught as a fact to the students by my English teacher. I don't have any textbooks to cite, I can only cite my personal experience, which you are free to disbelieve for whatever reason, but a simple online search will reveal that many other people, especially of the recent generation, had similar experiences in public school, especially if they grew up in a liberal area as I did

Oh I see so just acknowledging bad things our nation did is “guilt tripping” to you 🙄

[Hindsight was 2020]

Remember that most textbooks in the south used to romanticize slavery and portray slaves as happy and loving their owners. Conservatives have always used the education manipulate the future electorate through culture. They claim that removing the stars and bars and confederate statues is erasing history when they are the ones actual manipulate history.

An Alabama history textbook said slavery was a form of social security and that slave owners treated slaves well.

 Everything is projection with the right. They know that they've lied about American history, that's why they see the most meager attempts to begin to correct the record as such a serious threat.

The difference is that very few history teachers are teaching right-wing lies.

Wouldn't necessarily go that far, but it's clear that in America, left-wing lies are more often taught than right-wing ones in context of the schools.

For the most part, public schools seem to conform to the prevailing politics of the community. I grew up in the suburbs of Portland, a notoriously "progressive" city, and so in most of the history classes I took beyond elementary school I had to endure constant guilt-tripping over how much white people made blacks and Indians suffer. In rural conservative areas, I would imagine you get more of the "shining city on a hill" type rhetoric, extolling the virtues of great god-fearing patriots. In either case, lies and ideology are placed above historical truth.

 I call B.S. on this, what exactly was in your history curriculum that was guilt tripping whites about? Explain an example or cite something, reference a textbook because I don't believe you and would like to actually see an example of this.


 

It's the same typical nonsense you get in some universities about how the wealth of America, and that of white people in particular, is essentially due only to slavery and Native genocide, how everything was taken from them and they were given scraps in return, and of course naturally being a suburban Portland school with 95+ percent white students this is likely going to generate a great deal of shame. It wasn't an explicit part of the curriculum to "guilt trip whites," it was more of the manner in which it was conveyed. It was in public high school where I first came into contact with concepts like "white privilege," which I remember being taught as a fact to the students by my English teacher. I don't have any textbooks to cite, I can only cite my personal experience, which you are free to disbelieve for whatever reason, but a simple online search will reveal that many other people, especially of the recent generation, had similar experiences in public school, especially if they grew up in a liberal area as I did

Oh I see so just acknowledging bad things our nation did is “guilt tripping” to you 🙄

So you believe that all wealth that this country possesses, and that white people individually possess, is all due to slavery and Indian removal? Not only is that objectively false, but is a slap in the face to the tens of millions of European laborers who sailed to America to work in our factories, shipyards, mines, and railroads.

Or maybe you're just one of the ones who's been a product of the same false classroom lessons I had to go through in the public school system, except you've been foolish enough to allow yourself to be indoctrinated by them. In that case, my condolences.

Umm yes? I mean not the entirety of the wealth this nation but you seriously are being ridiculous if you are going to argue that our nations wealth is not mostly indebted to the fact that for almost a hundred years we had a source of free manual labor and that’s not getting into the clear objectionably fact that none of the wealth would be here without the Native removal in the first place

[Hindsight was 2020]

Remember that most textbooks in the south used to romanticize slavery and portray slaves as happy and loving their owners. Conservatives have always used the education manipulate the future electorate through culture. They claim that removing the stars and bars and confederate statues is erasing history when they are the ones actual manipulate history.

An Alabama history textbook said slavery was a form of social security and that slave owners treated slaves well.

 Everything is projection with the right. They know that they've lied about American history, that's why they see the most meager attempts to begin to correct the record as such a serious threat.

The difference is that very few history teachers are teaching right-wing lies.

Wouldn't necessarily go that far, but it's clear that in America, left-wing lies are more often taught than right-wing ones in context of the schools.

For the most part, public schools seem to conform to the prevailing politics of the community. I grew up in the suburbs of Portland, a notoriously "progressive" city, and so in most of the history classes I took beyond elementary school I had to endure constant guilt-tripping over how much white people made blacks and Indians suffer. In rural conservative areas, I would imagine you get more of the "shining city on a hill" type rhetoric, extolling the virtues of great god-fearing patriots. In either case, lies and ideology are placed above historical truth.

 I call B.S. on this, what exactly was in your history curriculum that was guilt tripping whites about? Explain an example or cite something, reference a textbook because I don't believe you and would like to actually see an example of this.


 

It's the same typical nonsense you get in some universities about how the wealth of America, and that of white people in particular, is essentially due only to slavery and Native genocide, how everything was taken from them and they were given scraps in return, and of course naturally being a suburban Portland school with 95+ percent white students this is likely going to generate a great deal of shame. It wasn't an explicit part of the curriculum to "guilt trip whites," it was more of the manner in which it was conveyed. It was in public high school where I first came into contact with concepts like "white privilege," which I remember being taught as a fact to the students by my English teacher. I don't have any textbooks to cite, I can only cite my personal experience, which you are free to disbelieve for whatever reason, but a simple online search will reveal that many other people, especially of the recent generation, had similar experiences in public school, especially if they grew up in a liberal area as I did

Oh I see so just acknowledging bad things our nation did is “guilt tripping” to you 🙄

So you believe that all wealth that this country possesses, and that white people individually possess, is all due to slavery and Indian removal? Not only is that objectively false, but is a slap in the face to the tens of millions of European laborers who sailed to America to work in our factories, shipyards, mines, and railroads.

Or maybe you're just one of the ones who's been a product of the same false classroom lessons I had to go through in the public school system, except you've been foolish enough to allow yourself to be indoctrinated by them. In that case, my condolences.

Umm yes? I mean not the entirety of the wealth this nation but you seriously are being ridiculous if you are going to argue that our nations wealth is not mostly indebted to the fact that for almost a hundred years we had a source of free manual labor and that’s not getting into the clear objectionably fact that none of the wealth would be here without the Native removal in the first place

(1) No, it's not mostly indebted to slavery. Partially? Of course. But the wealth of this nation was by and large built by the industrial working class. Slavery by then had long since been abolished in the North and had ceased to be a profitable economic system. The South, which was dependent on it, consistently lagged behind even in international markets, which is why the British and the French refused to recognize the Confederacy. The United States did not become a wealthy nation capable of competing with the established European powers until large-scale European immigration and industrialization which occurred in the second half of the 19th century.
(2) To assume that Indian removal was necessary for the wealth to be created in the first place says more about your beliefs than it does mine. (Never mind the fact that most of the natives died from disease in the first place, rather than systematic murder.)

I didn’t say it was necessary for the wealth to be created in saying it did because without the removal then American History is changed entirely and the nation we are talking about is completely different from the one we currently live in. This isn’t the “what if” board arguing about moving parts of history around and if it would changes things we are discussing the current reality we live in and in that reality what happened to the Natives is a disgustingly huge building block upon which this countries society is supported on. Also I didn’t get these ideas from being taught it in public school fwi I got these ideas from my own independent reading

[Hindsight was 2020]

I didn’t say it was necessary for the wealth to be created in saying it did because without the removal then American History is changed entirely and the nation we are talking about is completely different from the one we currently live in. This isn’t the “what if” board arguing about moving parts of history around and if it would changes things we are discussing the current reality we live in and in that reality what happened to the Natives is a disgustingly huge building block upon which this countries society is supported on.

Sure but correlation doesn't equal causation. Just because they were removed, doesn't mean that's what generated the wealth of America, unless you can somehow show a causal relationship.

Also I didn’t get these ideas from being taught it in public school fwi I got these ideas from my own independent reading

The "I am enlightened by my own intelligence" meme personified.

But if they aren’t removed then the wealth in its current form is not generated because the country is completely different so wealth in its current form wouldn’t of happened. That’s a clear relationship and beyond you personal invested reasons there is no reason to play ignorant to that relationship or to dismiss it as a attempt at white guilt tripping

[Hindsight was 2020]

I didn’t say it was necessary for the wealth to be created in saying it did because without the removal then American History is changed entirely and the nation we are talking about is completely different from the one we currently live in. This isn’t the “what if” board arguing about moving parts of history around and if it would changes things we are discussing the current reality we live in and in that reality what happened to the Natives is a disgustingly huge building block upon which this countries society is supported on.

Sure but correlation doesn't equal causation. Just because they were removed, doesn't mean that's what generated the wealth of America, unless you can somehow show a causal relationship.

Also I didn’t get these ideas from being taught it in public school fwi I got these ideas from my own independent reading

The "I am enlightened by my own intelligence" meme personified.

But if they aren’t removed then the wealth in its current form is not generated because the country is completely different so wealth in its current form wouldn’t of happened. That’s a clear relationship and beyond you personal invested reasons there is no reason to play ignorant to that relationship or to dismiss it as a attempt at white guilt tripping

Yes, but how can you attribute most or nearly all of the wealth to that fact alone? Just because it happened? That's irrelevant. If you take away the fact that the English were the first European group to settle America in large numbers, that doesn't mean that because England settled America that means "most or nearly all of the wealth" is because the English settled here. You have to demonstrate a causal link. And once again, no attempt on your part to even evaluate the relationship between Indian and white settlers, other than your dismissive "it was all genocide" claim a few posts earlier which is obviously false.

Because all that wealth was generated from resources and land they had first that is the clear relationship.