Most k-12 students in the US are currently being taught that "slavery was not so bad" and that "lynchings and violence never happened"? This seems like a massive and very grave scandal if it's, you know, true.pic.twitter.com/USLl1bOu1E
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Most k-12 students in the US are currently being taught that "slavery was not so bad" and that "lynchings and violence never happened"? This seems like a massive and very grave scandal if it's, you know, true.pic.twitter.com/USLl1bOu1E
Jeet Heer Retweeted Joshua Benton
You might want to look into what is actually taught in approved texts.https://twitter.com/jbenton/status/1404245820103348227 …
Jeet Heer added,
Are textbooks about Louisiana history actually representative of the US history books assigned in the history classes most American kids take?
As one of the fifty states and part the group that seceded from the union? Yes. No need to minimize this.
It's not a question of minimizing it. It's a question of whether Reid's description of what "most" American kids are being taught about slavery is accurate.
Yeah but your immediate first response to being shown pretty damning evidence proving that idea was to be like “well not all states” - you care to acknowledge that it does exist and has been taught and is terrible or are you only gonna hunt for degrees of correctness...
Stop. The tweet I was responding to was making a broadbrush statement about what "most American kids" were being taught. So that's the statement that has to be supported - not a statement that some kids, in some schools, are being taught bad history.
I feel like in looking at issues like this it's important to have a sense of proportion. What is ultimately more important -- that states like Louisiana teach Gone With the Wind history or that one newscaster was too glib in a tweet describing extent of problem?
I just don't agree that that's the right question. This is way overstatements on Twitter always play out. People make over-the-top statements because they know they'll get likes and retweets, and most people won't ever question them.
I feel like you and Greenwald over-estimate the danger of bad tweets as against real world political power. Greenwald's response to Reid had been that "this is likely an overstatement but, yes, slavery badly taught in much of USA" I wouldn't have objected.
If overstated tweets aren't worth responding to, why did you respond to Greenwald's overstated tweet?
I mean, we're on Twitter. Responding to bad tweets is part of what we do when we're here. It doesn't mean I think they're doing irreparable harm to the social fabric of the country.
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