| ▲ | MSFT_Edging 5 hours ago | |
> very different to changing historical facts like China does. Oh but they're trying. The right-wing usage of things like "woke" and "DEI" primarily serve to hide/destroy historical realities. [1] Florida has it's "STOP WOKE" act that forces teachers to talk about how slaves learned skills/benefited from slavery[2] and that various massacres also had black perpetrators. What is this other than changing historical facts? About fucking chattel slavery for Christ's sake. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/12/judge-nation... [2] https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/floridas-new... | ||
| ▲ | nixon_why69 4 hours ago | parent [-] | |
And also, not taking a side here, plenty of woke partisans valued righteousness over truth in the 2020 era. The 1619 project which was a whole NYT backed big thing had a bunch of factual errors. The real rub is when you get into "shared facts" that Americans were all taught in high school civics but the rest of the world wasn't. If you've mostly been in America, it can seem like someone's deliberately lying about history but they simply weren't properly educated with the Correct Interpretation. | ||