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Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy❤
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“Release of More Footage Spurs Calls for New Jan. 6 Inquiry
'The J6 committee was a sham. I knew it then. Everyone knows it now. Let’s investigate the investigators,' wrote Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas).
Several House Republicans called for establishing a new House investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach after new security footage was released.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-Ga.) wrote that the release of the new tapes is "not enough" and that there needs to be a probe for the "lies, deceit, and lives ruined."
The lawmaker then called on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to create a new select committee. She criticized the previous Congress's Jan. 6 panel that was chaired by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.).
Mr. Johnson said that his decision will give millions of Americans, Jan. 6 defendants, public organizations, and media outlets the ability to see "what happened that day" instead of having to rely on a "small group of government officials.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/release-of-more-f...As more and more J6 tapes are released we will see the ‘other side of J6’, not just the the select panel, turncoats and edited videos spooned fed half truths.
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So the Capitol police fired rubber bullets into a crowd that wasn’t doing anything?
Figures.
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......a crowd that wasn’t doing anything?..."
Laughable trolling.
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......a crowd that wasn’t doing anything?..."
Laughable trolling.
I wish that was what it was. But it is much worse than that. These people are deep into denial of reality. It verges on some kind of mental illness.
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Rewriting history was Winston's job in 1984. It appears we have some people vying for that position today.
That's right up there with "black people benefitted from slavery", like at least one history textbook is trying to promote (or so I read a few months ago).
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That slavery line is missing MASSIVE context. Ironic when you’re talking about rewriting history.
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That slavery line is missing MASSIVE context. Ironic when you’re talking about rewriting history.
Please supply the context. Feel free and be eloquent, make WTH and Albaby notice. :)
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I suspect he's referring to modern African Americans should be grateful that their ancestors were brought over here, because otherwise they would not now be over here and free. That's what the textbook claimed, as I recall.
It was an attempt to make slavery more palatable, that it wasn't "all bad". Not quite an attempt to justify slavery, but an attempt to minimize it.
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Go look it up.
The context was that a slave who learned a trade retained that trade when freed.
Nobody said “Yeah it was a good thing the guy was enslaved in the first place”.
And lol at calling for help. They can argue it all they want.
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If you took a slave and made him a blacksmith, then the slave upon being freed is still a blacksmith.
lib media tried to spin it as “Florida is teaching that slavery was good because it taught trades”…which was and is a bald faced lie.
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lib media tried to spin it as “Florida is teaching that slavery was good because it taught trades”…which was and is a bald faced lie. - Dope
Did you know that in Florida you are not allowed to say the word gay. It is so bad there, the NAACP had to put a travel advisory that it is not safe for blacks to go there.
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And lol at calling for help. They can argue it all they want.
That wasn't a call for help.
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lib media tried to spin it as “Florida is teaching that slavery was good because it taught trades”…which was and is a bald faced lie. - Dope
Did you know that in Florida you are not allowed to say the word gay. It is so bad there, the NAACP had to put a travel advisory that it is not safe for blacks to go there.
The deep south got it's slave codes from Barbados. Sons of aristocrats who didn't inherit went to the Caribe and established slave plantations for the Sugar cane - sweets for the table in Britain ( among other things). They , inn turn, had sons who went to the Carolinas and brought their harsh slave codes with them. By 1750 those slave codes were the norm and spread through the south. Slaves were taught trades so you could make money off of them. It was all money - nothing beneficial except by accident.
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Dope1: If you took a slave and made him a blacksmith, then the slave upon being freed is still a blacksmith.
First, let's look at the language of the curriculum in Florida’s State Academic Standards -- Social Studies, 2023:
SS.68.AA.2.3
Examine the various duties and trades performed by slaves (e.g., agricultural work, painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic service, blacksmithing, transportation).
Benchmark Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.
So the language of the curriculum is pretty clear: "slaves developed skills."
And isn't referring to picking cotton as "agricultural work" a rather lovely, using your word, "spin"?
Anyway, here are some of the problems with the entire line of thinking:
First, the majority of slaves lived and worked on cotton plantations and their primary labor was picking cotton or planting and harvesting rice, corn, sugarcane, and tobacco; not exactly useful, high wage-earning skills post-slavery skills. Enslaved people also had to clear land, dig ditches, cut and haul wood, slaughter livestock, and make repairs to buildings and tools. Again, not highly coveted jobs. And, yes, some worked as mechanics, blacksmiths, drivers, carpenters, and in other skilled trades.
Women were either "field slaves" or "house servants" and many were forced to become sex workers. Wait, that's not the right description though, is it? Sex workers are paid and have a different relationship with their customers than slaves, who were sexually exploited and often raped.
And that brings us to the real problem with rationalizing slavery by way of a learned skillset: on the slim chance that a slave was able to become a carpenter or a blacksmith or a good maid, that role was not determined by the individual slave, it was determined by somebody else, their owners.
And that, folks, is not an acceptable rationalization for enslavement.
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If I were enslaved, the only skill I would care to develop is to look like I was working when I was doing nothing. The pay would be exactly the same.
