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This accusation has been bothering me for a while, once it started cropping up 10-15 years ago. Did these people just grow up in shitty schools?
I grew up in a former Confederate state, and had the kind of private religious schooling that sends liberals screeching about indoctrination and mis-educating kids. I'm talking 100% ultra-conservative, ultra-patriotic, religious to the point that we learned more arguments against evolution than about how it worked.
Even in this "worst" of settings, we learned about all of the subjects she mentioned. Except for Henrietta Lacks, who isn't a notable historical figure, more of a 4th amendment medical grievance case that got racialized.
Before the leftist BS destroyed the curriculum decades ago, kids weren't being taught a "patriotic fantasy". They were being taught the blemishes in US history, but they were also taught the context and the political counterpoints.
The story of "slaveholding Founding Fathers" doesn't begin and end with slaves. It begins with an inherited institution, goes through a literal Revolution of thought, examines the intricate "poison pills" they inserted into the Constitution to destroy slavery over the long run, and ends with many of them personally trying to free their own slaves. It's one of the first places kids encounter the morality-vs-legality tension.
But instead of teaching it properly, the leftist zombies want to go 100% on the morality side and cut the lesson short with a sanctimonious condemnation. They don't even get the morality right; they reject contemporary morality in favor of anachronistic modern morality.
I understand them trying to subvert proper teaching of history. But I really can't figure out where all these whitewashing accusations come from. Those darker parts are in the history books, and they are being taught. Maybe these morons just never paid attention in class, until they got to college and some woke professor turned the entire class into a guilt-tripping focus on those parts.
When it comes to accusations, many point to Texas textbooks: