Columbus probably did think that. What's the problem? I am assuming they let kids know Columbus was wrong, don't they?

They do not, in fact. They largely present abolitionists as maniacs of monsters. The exception being Frederich Douglas, because their warped revisionist version of him condemns other abolitionists for not taking "No" for an answer.

I don't think that firing goes far enough (unless it's out of a cannon).

Out of a canon.

Into the sun.

WTAF?

Oh My f*cking GAWD 🤬🤬🤬

For many reasons, including the fact that there is no proof that Columbus was on mainland America's soil.

We can predict there won't be any chapters about how Columbus and his men lopped off the hands of Arawak children who didn't bring him enough gold.

This is perfect. Pray they are successful in pushing this idiocy. I never understood the African-Americans voting for the fascist, much less for pedoführer. This should help flip whatever outliers remain in this community.

Prager is garbage

All of it was so appalling. They used so many accents for 1492 Christopher Columbus to explain to kids ages 2-10 why slavery then, slavery 350 years later wasn’t such a bad thing 🤬

Disgusting!

It’s already in FL.

Religion is ending our world instead of making it better. Not sure when people will finally see this. Religion has always been used to control people. Life is about being good to yourself and others.

Religion is often the cause of wars.

"When people are treated like property, that means they are highly valued."

Preferably from a trebuchet.

No they should be hanged and their body's left on display at the city gate.

My family has an oral history. I’m descended from enslavers, and he raped and murdered the people he enslaved. It’s was horrific and should not be sanitized. Those who want to erase history want to repeat it

Wow. And to think the meaning of slavery and its relevance was once made very clear to me during a re-air of Roots w/ Levar Burton on…The Family Channel, the cable channel begun by Pat Robertson. (This would have been circa 1994-ish).

What is the country coming to? I'm so glad I'm old .

F no!

#EvilAtWork

Any dumbshit who says "slavery is no big deal" should have to work as one down in a mine or on a fishing boat for a year. Then we'll check in, yeah?

George, agree with the stand against this horrible messaging. Don't agree with who your targeting. In schools teachers are required to teach the curriculum. Target those who require this type of nonsense. (as a teacher with moral compass I would find creative ways around this if it was required).

No honest teacher would teach this. If they have any morals they will immediately resign.

I wouldn't teach it but the teachers are being used as human shields. Target the right group here.

I'm not saying to not target the right group. I'm just saying teachers that comply should not be let off the hook. "Just following orders" didn't work at Nuremberg, and it won't work here.

Not wrong however....teachers are worn out from carrying & being responsible for all of societies baggage. Whenever there's a n issue the solution is that ,"it needs to be taught in school." It's an easy out when you put all the responsibility on another group.

Teachers can't shoulder anymore of societies issues. When we protest we are vilified. It's why many are choosing to leave the profession resulting in a teacher shortage.

If teachers are forced to do things like this, they should leave. And there should be a teacher shortage. They should just walk out right there.

You missed the point...teachers aren't going to shoulder societies issues alone anymore.

Garbage.

Surely this can’t be real? Surely? wtf is going on???? 🤯

Sounds like the MAGA version of slavery, when millions of happy Africans were offered a cruise to the New World, jobs, and free food and housing.

And did they say "thank you"?

After one of the Prager guys turned out to be a shameless Pravda peddler, another just copied from a literal fascist handbook, and yet another happily started lying about recent history in exchange for any money... I guess the USA really goes for that Kambodia award. /sarcasm because AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Well it's probably accurate that p.o.s. Columbus would say slavery was no big deal and that he was being nice not killing them

As if being a slave excluded being killed…

“It’s better to be a slave than dead” is the direct opposition of “Give me Liberty or give me Death”

The truth is, it's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Heck even Killmobger in Black Panther wanted to be buried at sea to be with the people who refused to become slaves. (A villain with a legit point but a bad solution)

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Disgusting...

Those fortunate slaves who were.... *checks notes* worked to death in the fields only to be replaced by even more within a year or two.

For those that survived the Passage. So long as about 30% were alive when they hit port, the slavers made a fortune. Did you know that sharks got trained to follow slave ships, because of the number of bodies thrown over across the Atlantic? Think about that for awhile.

WHAT an INSULT to PEOPLE of CONSCIENCE. WHAT an INSULT to PEOPLE of FAITH. WHAT an INSULT to PEOPLE OF COLOR. WHAT an INSULT to PEOPLE who are not afraid of HISTORY. WHAT an INSULT to PEOPLE of ACTION … who CHOOSE to identify and confront the evils of society … in order to correct them.

It’s similar to the intensifying messaging from the White House, capitulating to us is better than be poor or dead.

Fired at*

“🎶Oh freedom over me…And before I’ll be a slave, I’ll be buried in my grave, and go home to my Lord and be free🎶”. There’s a number of spirituals about how death is better. But what do we know. 🙄

I would rather see them enslaved for several years.

Objection: Anyone teaching this about slavery should have their teeth knocked out, because that is surely also better than being killed.

@saberspark.bsky.social

But Christopher Columbus HATED salvery

Im 36, I had a SC History text book that explained how slaves were better taken care of before emancipation, but slave owners wanted to keep their property in working order. The irony is that the text wasn't completely wrong, but it didn't tell a single thing about convict leasing...

WHY ARE THOSE THE ONLY OPTIONS?!

They should become slaves if it's so great

They already are, they just haven’t clued into that yet.

I’d vote for that. Send them to trump’s foreign “work”. (Death) camps!

It was sarcasm. (Actually I wouldn’t vote for that. I believe in rule of law)

A right wing Jewish crank fronting Christ Fascist lies and distortions funded by billionaire donors

‘Better than being killed’ that’s the lowest of bars.

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." - Abraham Lincoln

Prager U is absolute white nationalist trash.

They can't outright bring back slavery today, but this is exactly how you do it in two decades. By twisting the minds of our children, long enough to get them to voting age.

And simplistic and it’s history for bigoted morons who refuse to accept the warts of America

Grooming kids much?

I’m afraid I have to disagree with you on this one. They shouldn’t be fired, they should be forced to keep doing their job without pay. #KarmicJustice

Oh. My. Fkn. God.........

His second voyage"When he returned w/ 500 Indian slaves—much to chagrin of Queen Isabella, who deplored slavery—... accusations from sick, embittered crew members, among them a priest he had denied rations to after he chastised Columbus for whipping recalcitrant settlers." American Heritage website

Literally living in a time where conservatives have declared war on decent people and attempting to rewrite history in their own image of hate and racism

He was here in 1492 we got here in 1619. How does that even make sense?

Since it was "no big deal," then anyone teaching this should summarily enslaved.

Disgusting

Don't you just love fascist revisionism? But don't worry Americans, freedom for whity won't be in jeopardy. Only the spics, coons and the chinks will suffer. No need to rise up and protest. Just enjoy your tax breaks.

More like firing squad. That's traitor talk!

The cartoon is missing an option when presenting slavery or death. There's also freedom.

You cannot simultaneously claim to love this nation unconditionally and try to lie about its mistakes and the unfortunate circumstances of its creation. If you think loyalty must be based on lies then you admit what you offer isn't good enough to see past the flaws.

It's not going to work. Also his tenure will be shortlived -- too much too soon too awful always bursts, not sustainable.

People have been saying that for years, and yet he always finds some vile new escalation. And "unsustainable" doesn't concern him, as he doesn't care what becomes of the country or the world.

I have very bad news: newhampshirebulletin.com/2023/11/03/c...

*arrested

Columbus had limbs of natives amputated for minor infractions and killed thousands under his leadership

Yeah the outrages continue to flow from the White House. It's getting worse all the time. Soon enough it will become existential for a lot of us and bluesky will cease to be relevant. But at least they were able to tamp down my references to active shooters.

All those that chose to jump into the sea seem to have thought much differently.

Or that eventually nets were placed on the boats because too many people PREFERRED DEATH!

Will they learn how shark migration patterns changed based on the transatlantic slave trade? Will they see diagrams of cargo ships retrofitted to hold more human cargo? That slaves couldn’t even stand up and they laid in their own bodily eliminations?

They chose the wrong country for their Fascist project. They can get f*cked! 🤬

Are you serious? They actually said it was ‘no big deal’, those exact words? Christ on a bike…

And they complain about the 'grooming of children' when it's talking about biology and social issues natural to life, but are happy to groom them saying that doing illegal things is "perfectly fine"... After all, a lot of the enslaved were children, who were abused...

I spent some time at Betty's Hope, a plantation museum in Antigua. As a Métis person, it was the closest I'd ever come to understanding the impacts of slavery. We saw the "slave trees" where gruesome things were done. And then we were taken to Devils Bridge, a breathtakingly beautiful rock...

...formation on the Pacific side of the island. It's also where escaped slaves went to let the Pacific take them rather than continuing to live the way they were. Anyone with a shred of empathy can't walk away from that experience unchanged. Perhaps it should become the standard form of education.

It should always be a part of education, experiencing what we abolished in history even just for a short time is a strong reminder that it was a bad thing, after all, slavery and oppression brings about revolution, which can lead to wars a-la the US and its 'civil' war...

State approved propaganda for all.

...From a cannon into a paper shredder

Into the sun, out of a cannon.

Yes, teach children always to submit to power, even perceived power. Little girls should be taught to have babies, one after another. Little boys should be taught to submit to serfdom and work the landowner's estate.

It is not enough that Trump and its cronies are messing with the global economy and reducing the due process to nothing… this will actively support the creation of historical illiterates and racists people. I am increasingly fearful of the US.

A division of Trump University?

Sick make America ghastly again garbage. They are meeting with the master of ghastly ideas.

Will they also be learning about Patrick Henry?

jailed immediately so everyone knows, israeli schools teach that kind of stuff to Jewish children every day

There is a reason. There is evidence that Columbus was actually Jewish ethnically, from one of the forced conversion families that were "encouraged" by the Inquisition. You know, with stretching exercises and making sure they weren't too cold if they refused.

ah yes, i heard about that.. perhaps Christo Columbus (classic Hebrew name) was decended from Najran Muslims who were forced to convert To Judaism by the Yemeni Himyarite King .. you know by ecouraging them with free esophageal circumcisions if they refused

I showed this to my son and told him I don’t want him to watch it at school if it’s presented. He can either walk out or (preferably) yell “Give me liberty or give me death!” and then walk out. I’ll gladly pick him up from school and we’ll go out for ice cream.

Good for you. It's never too early to learn to resist.

Christopher Columbus was actually Jamaican?? (Going by accent) 😂😂

Shit the bed. Makes Hitler look like Marilyn Monroe.

Well, to be fair, Columbus both kidnapped indigenous people to be slaves and he killed many others. You know, on top of the rape and plundering.

If I caught anyone showing this to children in my circle, they’d be losing teeth.

Meanwhile, much of the rest of the world continues to teach real history while watching the US govt plan to turn its population into drones for all those manufacturing jobs and coal mines.

Christopher Columbus was so bad the crown tried to remove his hereditary pension.

Yeah, the Christopher Columbus video seems to be their most loathed.

Federal funding for PBS is around 15% of their budget. Their foundational budget also helps smaller and rural affiliates that really suffer from federal funding being rescinded. Everyone: If you want PBS and all their good programming to survive, + help aid rural/smaller affiliates, then *donate.*

For many people, dying is better. Love how people who've never had anyone in their family experience something, can tell others what it's like. 😠

This should be an absolutely unbelievable piece of news - but it isn't......

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TALKING PEACE! The vote made all this possible. The extreme left, the ones who voted for Jill, the ones who abstained, the ones who boycotted and the undecided-decided. All of them are responsible since the extreme right very clearly said what they were going to do. Natanael

Fired? Let’s be real, in this fever dream of a reality they’d be promote

That's the crux of home schooling guidelines. And, no one will be fired for following the school district standards. We need to run more people for school boards to push back.

Dennis Prager: What's Wrong With Masturbating To Child Porn? crooksandliars.com/2023/08/denn... #GOPPedophiles

prager = propaganda

The irony is that Columbus was imprisoned by the Spanish Crown for slavery and murder. Among numerous other things.

100%

Toothache is also better than being killed. But that's not an argument against flossing and dentists.

This is a major WTH moment. IF it ever comes on the air, I urge parents with my whole heart to not turn this crap on at their house. Just garbage from tweaking history.

Hooooleeeef*****ck! Columbus used methods so brutally efficient that Hitler based part of his “Master Plan” on those very tactics.

Praeger FU

Fired out of a cannon into a brick wall.

I hate them SO FUCKING MUCH

It’s in my state. But our county has said they have no intention of putting it on curriculum

Were slavery or being killed the only 2 options? Jesus Christ Also, let's give kids some credit, they'll know this is wrong

Not if it's the only thing they're allowed to know. That's what they're pushing. Kids won't know any better because "better" was made illegal to teach.

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I don't know why people are making such a big deal out of this. You're talking like an entire group of humans being owned like chattel, brutally abused, denied civil liberties, and systemically oppressed causes wide-ranging generational trauma which then impacts a person on every axis of health 🙄 /s

That would happen over my dead body- literally!

You know, I'm sure that's actually something Columbus would have said. But he should always be remembered as a vile, despicable person.

There are entire youtube channels devoted to exposing this fascist propaganda threatening to indoctrinate our children.

Prager U. is pure propaganda.

Prager's a scam and it's trying to be used in OK by that Ryan Waters nitwit superintendent.

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Black folks literally have a song expressing the precisely opposite sentiment

Indoctrination in to confederate ideology

Columbus was one of the biggest mass murderers in human history. Spanish trash.

It’s right out of koo koo land

The people who made this video need to experience slavery firsthand before they promote it as being "better than death." We can do this by simply putting them in prison.

because that's how the GOP really feels

Absolutely fucking disgusting. This is priming the public to be ok with slavery in the future by brainwashing our children to follow their fascist right wing ideology. If a school my child attended showed ANY of this garbage, I would pull them out immediately.

This is fascist propaganda. Teach children to be slaves and like it. Reprehensible.

This is obscene. Literally vomit-inducing.

Woke is historical truths. Clearly Trump/the Republican Party and white supremacists cannot accept the truth! A civilized society must have the truth as the core value.

Or put to work in a cotton field barefoot, for free, with nothing but a bare tent to sleep in after a 16 hour day.

This isn't just teaching about slavery. It's priming all of us to think that what they're doing is "no big deal" and it's better to go along than to risk death, violence, or imprisonment.

or flogged?

I would rather have kids see the Doobus Goobus video (which has *gasp* swearing) than this

Trump knows all about fake universities! 😡

"Now kids: for homework tonight read the Chick Comics booklet entitled 'No Cool Place in Hell,' and write a 50-word report on why it's bad to sin."

Fired, yes. Out of a cannon and preferably into an active volcano..

Yes. fired immediately... Out of a cannon Directly into a concrete wall.

Yes, that's why so many Africans chose the water

Prager (not a university) U got into K-12 in FL. Mission included “persuasion” Now changed to “promoting conservative & capitalist viewpoints on various political, economic, and sociological topics” IOW, propaganda machine masquerading as education with no education credentials just like Chris Ruffo

D:

Didn't Columbus also kill a number of people?

I’m really disappointed with humanity for letting nazis getting back in power.

And anyone else who teaches should be thanked endlessly. Buckle up! You have communities behind you even if f*cktwats above you!

What a frigging mess we will have To clean up after he is gone.

Fired out of a cannon.

I watched the clip in question. However bad you think it is, it’s worse. It was chilling.

Fired? How about forced into slavery?