Emperor Desantis gives his absurdly false version of how he expects history to be taught

[Nevilledog]

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Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦
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Sep 22, 2022
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Emperor Desantis gives his absurdly false version of how he expects history to be taught: “It was the American Revolution that caused people to question slavery. No one had questioned it before we decided as Americans that we are endowed by our creator with unalienable rights.”


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And it’s working on people

[underpants]

1. 👀 gotta watch this later.

[Kittycatkat]

3. Beware, you can't unsee it. I wish I could!

[Kittycatkat]

2. Righto, no one eeever questioned slavery until then. What an asshat!

[Walleye]

4. And it only took us four score and seven years even try to do anything about it

I can’t listen. His voice is almost as grating as trumps

[underpants]

6. Speaking of which, his voice reminds me of a small Seinfeld character

[DET]

14. OMG...

You’re right! I kept thinking I know this voice from somewhere… It’s the rabbi! And that was a great episode, BTW.

[geardaddy]

22. Totally!

[geardaddy]

24. I just hope it never "happens" for DeathSantis

i.e., becoming POTUS.

[underpants]

5. As I look this up, to see if it's prominent in RW letters and media, I think I see

where this germinated. A lot of slaves did escape during the mayhem and chaos of the Revolution.
Movements amongst slaves used universal rights as the engine. This is quite a twist by DeSantis.

https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=4571

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Three fifths. . . . nt

[belpejic]

8. I'm not original in coming up with this mishmash of insults

But Emperor Benito Hamster Cheeks can go eff himself...

[GuppyGal]

9. Well it's semi working on people......he had that lady thinking

[belpejic]

11. I would put quotes around "thinking" nt

[RKP5637]

10. This creature called DeSantis is disgusting beyond belief!!! n/t

[DavidDvorkin]

12. Has he never heard of Google and/or Wikipedia?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism

[brush]

13. This little bully is nothing but trump 2.0, and just as dumb...

it seems...making up a mishmash of the history of enslavement from the fragments of what his little brain remembers from the Civil War and Revolutionary War teachings all blended together.

Why do these republican dummies think they know better than professional educators with degrees?

[kwolf68]

15. because professional educators with degrees

the intelligentsia oftentimes do study and research to come to a conclusion that does not advance their agenda. Thus by definition higher education brain washes people to "be left". It's basic Fascism 101, education must be taken over by right wing adherents so THEY can actually do the brainwashing.

[Yavin4]

16. That man went to Yale and Harvard. n/t

[brush]

17. Can't tell by that BS he spews. He's a little Hitler.

[kwolf68]

19. It only counts if you are RIGHT

Yale and Harvard will get lambasted by the goons on the right, but as soon as one of their guys has a degree from there they won't shut the fuck up about it.

[Solly Mack]

18. The voice of Foghorn Leghorn: And, I'll tell ya. Until the white man in America discovered freedom

no one had ever thought of freedom before. We invented freedom and them thar rights too. White men done told their slaves about freedom, and wee doggy, those slaves weren't having none of it. Not for another 89 years would they even allow us to speak of it again. No, sir. No freedom for them. Said they didn't need it. Never once heard a slave complain about being a slave. Nope. Freedom was a head-scratcher for them. Slaves never questioned slavery. 'Cause no one ever questioned slavery before us white men in America did. We did that. You may thank us now.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. The radicalized Republican party must kill education in order to push their agenda.

Republicans' war on education is the most crucial part of their push for fascism

It's been going on a while. From 2011: https://progressive.org/latest/republican-war-education/

[Nevilledog]

21. Article: DeSantis flunks American history test with nonsensical slavery rant

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/desantis-slavery-american-revolution-florida-schools-rcna49157

*snip*

Speaking at an event Tuesday, the Republican tried to downplay a lawsuit over his oppressive "Stop WOKE Act," a law designed to severely restrict educators’ ability to teach about social ills. DeSantis has railed against teachers in his state who have sought to educate their students on truths about racial, gender and sexuality-based inequality. But his rambling, ahistorical diatribe showed why he’s not to be taken seriously on those matters.

In his remarks, he maligned “The 1619 Project,” a New York Times multimedia effort focused on the roots of slavery in virtually all aspects of American life. White Republicans — led by former President Donald Trump — have denounced the project as “un-American” since its debut in 2019. And they have decried academic focuses on social inequality, like critical race theory, just the same.

The Times’ project is a “CRT version of history,” DeSantis claimed. He added, “They want to teach our kids that the American Revolution was fought to protect slavery,” which he said, wrongly, was false. (We’ll get to that in a moment.)

But DeSantis went even further, claiming that America’s revolution against Britain was solely responsible for the movement to abolish slavery. “No one had questioned it [slavery] before we decided as Americans that we are endowed by our creator with unalienable rights and that we are all created equal,” DeSantis said.

He delivered those demonstrably false remarks with all the confidence of a seventh-grade student bluffing their way through a class presentation.

*snip*

[geardaddy]

23. I bet he flunked history at Yale

What an absolute fuckwit.