Texas Educators Propose Calling Slavery ‘Involuntary Relocation’

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.

An advisory group of nine educators in Texas has submitted a proposal to the Texas State Board of Education for the state’s second grade curriculum that would teach kids that slavery was actually just “involuntary relocation.”


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The best part of June 2022!

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Have A Good 4th Of July Holiday, Y’all!

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I guess they thought that “peculiar institution” suggested something less savory.

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Frankly i don’t think America deserves a birthday party this year.

True that. If nothing else for all the damn fireworks that scare cats and dogs and well all kinds of creatures, including human kind.

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Ok Texas Ed board, whatever you gotta tell yourselves.
Its 2022 and you’re still scared of the Truth.

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History In Texas

Now taught by the gallon!

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Written in colors of the rAinBoW :rainbow_flag:

Mrs woman got such the smugA$$ face going on, eh.

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’Involuntary relocation’

WTF???!! Seriously, there are no words.

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And I saw a headline this morning that some benighted Wisconsin school district banned a book about the world war 2 (ethnic) Japanese internment camps.

@tiowally, @SheSellsSeashells

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TBF, the truth makes them feel discomfort, and that’s illegal, dontcha know.

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I wonder if the Texas educators also want to call white slavery (human trafficking) “involuntary dating?” If not, why not? Skin color?

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  • It was a good day for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, who surely did his EPA-gutting momma (who served as Ronald Reagan’s EPA administrator) proud with his vote.

Oh, so he’s a momma’s boy. :thinking:

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Gotta start registering as Republicans and voting these off-the-rails rightists out of the primaries. The only defense is keeping them TF out of any sort of power.

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Summer is here. Canada Day is today. The Fourth on Monday. Does anyone need sandals?

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It’s not that racists don’t want to acknowledge the past so much as that will lead to having to acknowledge the present.

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Then how will they redefine lynching?

“An early promotion to heaven?”

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Happy Canada Day @garrybee and all the other Friends to the North here. :maple_leaf:

And That’s a Hard pass on the sandals.
Pathetic ruby G.

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I hope she’s delivering some side-eye to that mofo Alito.

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