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When I Hear Florida Schools Will Teach How Slavery Brought ‘Personal Benefit’ to Black People (lemm.ee)
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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ahhh... The old "replace factual history with 'belief-ism'" tactic. What's the saying? "Those who don't read history are doomed to repeat it"

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

It feels like 1984, unironically.

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot.