Student: “why was she asked to move?”

Teacher: “Um, um…. Thursday in Montgomery.”

Now it just sounds like beginning of a math problem.

All part of the plan destroy public education to the point where it holds no value and everyone have to go to private schools that can just completely ignore it.

It also makes it fair game to put my own "did what I thought was right" forward as an equal alternative. Like, sure we beat the shit out of people when they protested those laws, but we just stood up for what we thought, just like her, amirite? Good people on both sides type of bullshit.

That’s definitely the point… Context and framing are everything. They are clearly attempting to rewrite the macro-narrative to suit their political agenda. It’s literally how the Confederate flag and sentiments have survived into modern day: warped framing of history.

Remember that McDonald's coffee incident? Lady was awarded millions over spilled coffee?

Sounds dumb when it's put like that, and it was framed that way because "people will sue over anything!"

In reality, the coffee machine was holding the coffee just a few degrees below boiling. It literally melted her flesh. That location had had complaints about the coffee being too hot for some time prior to the incident. There's pictures of some of the damage to her legs floating around, and they had to perform reconstructive surgery on her lady bits.

She wasn't even looking for a huge settlement, she just wanted medical bills paid. The judge awarded her the additional money more to punish McDonald's than help her.

The way you put forth information, and what you leave out, completely changes the context of the message.

Fun fact, the owner of Little Caesars paid Rosa's rent for a long time before she died in '05.

I have to admit, I can't keep up with this. I have noticed what is going on in Florida. But I never imagined that it would be so extreme.

I just thought for a moment it was about the upper wording. Because that is stupid enough.

But the lower one is just ... I have no words. Villainous comes to mind, but it seems far from sufficient to me.

“That’s my purse seat! I don’t know you!”

It’s good to know they changed it again and ridiculous that they found the first option racially charged. The big issue is how is a teacher expected to know the ever changing line that only exists in the mind of some random Floridian. It’s ridiculous.

Too racially charged?

I'm sorry... What?

It was a racially charged moment in history. That's what makes it significant at all.

I hate this state. I hate that the idiots around me vote for this shit over the betterment of their friends and family.

Can anyone get me around this paywall? I've reach my limit of zero free articles.

The first version with "because of the color of her skin" was rejected because it was too racially charged.

Lol, wouldn't want to be too racially charged when talking about segregation

I'm more interested to hear what FL teachers tell the kids if they ask;

"Why was she asked to move from her seat?"

The revision makes her sound like an asshole. It's so insulting. (To be fair, most of us still learned a dumbed-down, poor-thing-was-tired version, but still...)

Actually it does. It tells you that you can resist anybody telling you what to do, regardless of whether there is valid bias at play (racism, sexism, etc).

In other words, "my truth is louder than yours, you can't tell me what to do". Without mention of race, this new version is simply enabling Karens.

She goes from hero to entitled Karen. Now it just sounds like she was asked to change seats to like balance the bus or let a kid sit with his mother…

This is what the racists want.

As an ex floridan i feel you. Ain’t no swamp to return too just a sad condo with mournful tits awaiting me home

Dave Barry was right. High past time we sell it back to Spain.

Now it's just the cutting edge in depressing bullshit.

Well, at least they finally get to be #1 in something.....

When conservatives whine they're telling you what they want to do, not what they want to stop.

Conservatives aren't hypocrites, they're liars. The arguments they present are only ever the arguments they think are most publicly acceptable for that topic. These more acceptable arguments clash all the time. They're not bothered by that because they don't believe them. They're just rhetorical tools. Which is why they also don't care when those arguments are defeated.

Their real core of their arguments here is dogmatic beliefs in white supremacy and nationalism. From that comes a belief is that the nation was built by "white" men and the sanctity of the founding national myth.

From that comes support for statues of champions of whiteness and banning mention of what exactly Rosa Parks overcame.

They never cared for a second about history. It's all about the white supremacist national myth.

^{edit: lol, this triggered a conservative hard enough that they sent me a RedditCareResources message. Proof that ignoring the chaff they throw out and going after core of their position works.}

A woman - that would have been in baaaad situation without the REPUBLICAN A. Lincoln and D. Trump - once rode a bus. Then woke minorities wanted to impugn the honour of voted officials. This is why DemocRATS bad!!!

Florida Schoolbook ca 2031

And then version 3, "no1 asked her to move, Rosa was being Karen & her broke ass should never have been free to begin with."

Nah, next versions going to say, "Rosa was too lazy to move." Then the next version will say, "Rosa wouldn't move to let an elderly woman take her place." Then the next version will say, "Rosa made a white person move. White people could only sit in the back."

I went to a predominantly white school and they spent what felt like our entire 1st to 3rd grade teaching us the entire history from slavery to the Jim Crow era. They were honest as they could be. They weren’t sugar coating it to make us feel better. They showed us what happened and taught us how wrong it was.

I look back at that and am just so thankful they didn’t hold back. I’m glad I learned our countries mistakes so that I can be on the right side if it were to happen again.

It frustrates me to see this because as a child, this had no negative impact on me. It didn’t traumatize me or make hate this country. It helped me want to make it better. They’re ripping away a very important part of history and a vital part of our moral evolution.

This is a bunch of ignorant people who don’t care about a child’s safety, they care about not admitting what their ancestors did were wrong and avoiding accountability.

Imagine being a person who gave 2-3 decades of their life to the country, let’s call it INVESTED. The country they were taught about in elementary into high school, and thought they knew - only to witness it devolve into a dystopian nightmare which would promote a political agenda over teaching our fullest history with the whole truth. Absolutely disgusting & despicable. FILTH.

This is fucking infuriating. Literally whitewashing ROSA PARKS. Fuck you desantis and everyone else that made/allowed this to happen.

In Germany they’re still prosecuting Nazis from WW2. In the US we still have racists from the Jim Crow era writing our laws, and people who threaten and murder protesters are heralded as leaders. It’s embarrassing

They're literally not allowed to say why. It's insane.

Any child asking questions has committed a thoughtcrime and is sent to Room 101 for reeducation.

"Ask your parents."

Damn straight!

*Statue no one remembers being torn down:

It's the end of the WhItE aMeRiCa HISTORY!?!? The colored are trying to eNd OuR CoUnTrY with WoKeNeSs

*Changing a critical part of America history and intentionally lie to children:

You see, this is vital to protect the feelings of white children, for the sake of their parents. Sure it's basically telling all other children that they can fuck off, but see it from our point of view, this was very easy-- I mean hard to do...

Exactly. I don’t understand why this is ok with anyone.

She did weigh the same as a duck

This is the 2nd time he, DeSantis, has had to back pedal. He's come out saying they (publishers and teachers) are doing it to embarrass him. No, they are reacting to a law that is so vague, they don't know what todo do, so they err on the side of caution. He created this monster.

By design.