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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

Interesting. I can remember when cons said that statues are how we learn about history when statues of traitorous white supremacists were being taken down.

And now they literally don't even want this guy mentioned? They literally want to remove mentions of him?

Wonder if they are ready to give PEDOnald the same treatment? I sure hope so. Seeing how quickly all things named after Chavez are being renamed/scrubbed is heartening - apparently if you are a pedo, or at least a left-wing pedo, there are consequences.

We'll see if that holds for Republicans pedos like Donvict.

[–] returningtheday@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

Oh, but we have to learn about all the countless other racists still? That's cool. Fucking hell.

Performative racist bullshit.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have a hard time believing he was ever part of the curriculum, sure as shit wasn’t in my southern public schooling. Even if he was a part of it I’d bet my last dime most students didn’t learn shit about him

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 5 points 4 days ago

Mountain west, and same. Closest we got was a watered down mention of MLK and Sacagawea, mostly because she is pertinent to state history. They kinda glossed over her being a teenage sex slave and depicted her as the “wise old squaw” trope, never mentioning she died in her mid-20s. We have a statue of her by the Capitol. She’s pointing Lewis and Clark south, the one direction they didn’t go 🤦‍♂️

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

Huh. I wonder why they'd scrub him just as the world realizes he was a conservative all along.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

As if they were teaching about him anyway. Went to Texas schools know jackshit about him.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

Well, what did you expect, the time for Trump Family 201: Eric to Lara had to come from somewhere! We can't have the children do more hours, the dynamite mines are waiting!

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Columbus for Chavez. Only fair since they both are problematic (if the recent Chavez allegations are too be believed).

Edit: That includes scrubbing Columbus day. No teaching the 1492 song. No statutes. Nothing.