Seriously, what the fuck is up with the south? They don’t want to teach kids any parts of history regarding black people, they want teachers to give “opposing views” when discussing the Holocaust, and now they want to ban all discussion of the LGBT+ community.
I know it’s not all of you living there, but fucking hell. If you’re black, jewish, or LGBT+, get the hell outta there. They want to deny your entire existence.
Tena, you’ll just get angry if you get political again but also don’t trust everything the media says.
The last one is part of a bill they’re currently trying to pass in Florida. A school administrator in Texas was recorded instructing his staff to present “opposing viewpoints” to the Holocaust (the school’s superintendent later apologized publicly about it). And I think everyone knows by now how Texas schools want to leave out parts of American history concerning slavery and civil rights.
Believe me–I would much rather be mistaken.
People also regularly push bills to lower the age of consent or legalize zoophilia and they’re just as quickly thrown out
That’s literally ONE freak incident. Compare it to how many progressive people hate Israel and how the memory-holed the recent Texas synagogue attack.
Schools in Texas aren’t leaving parts of history out, they fighting against teaching CRT which preaches that all white people are inherently evil, very different things.
See how things look different when you put them in context?
Yeah, Texas passed Bill 3979. There is no “context”–It is 100% all in there. It prohibits teaching parts of American history dealing with slavery, and wants teachers to present “opposing viewpoints” if they do discuss “controversial” material. It is an actual fucking BILL. One of TWO, actually.
Also, CRT isn’t even fucking taught in grade school. It NEVER WAS.
On this day, 23 January 1919, racist rioting broke out in Glasgow, Scotland, as Black and white sailors gathered, hoping to be hired for work, in the mercantile marine office by the Glasgow Docks. A fight broke out between a group of sailors from Sierra Leone and white workers who objected to foreign labour competing with them for limited jobs.
Soon the white mob grew to several hundred strong, and the rioters armed themselves with guns, knives, batons, and bricks. The sailors from Sierra Leone sought shelter in their lodgings, but the white rioters surrounded building and attacked it, smashing its windows. In response, some of the Black sailors fired shots down at the crowd. Eventually, police detained 30 Black sailors in “protective custody”, then charged them with riot and weapons offences. None of the white rioters were arrested.
This was just the first of many race-related harbour riots that took place across Britain in 1919 - which left five people dead, hundreds arrested, and dozens seriously injured. But what’s remarkable about this case is how closely it’s linked to the strike for a 40-hour working week: it took place just days before the famous Battle of George Square, and some of the same people were involved.
Manny Shinwell was imprisoned for his role in the Battle of George Square, but it was also he, as local secretary of the British Seafarers’ Union, who addressed 600 white workers on the morning of the race riot demanding “action” against workers of colour. Shinwell would become the longest-serving Labour Party MP, Secretary of State for War in Clement Attlee’s government, and Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party. But his branch of the BSU banned Black members.
Such racism was, sadly, a feature of party-political trade unionism from its inception. The Trades Union Congress, which established a parliamentary labour party in 1899, had since 1892 been calling for a total ban on immigration, and it supported the antisemitic Aliens Act of 1905. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1905367339648407/?type=3
