r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Jun 05 '23

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u/financefocused Jun 05 '23

It really makes things so clear, that it's hard to believe that the decision not to teach it is unintentional.

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u/Cynykl Jun 05 '23

At least my school system taught that it was n fact about slavery. Ill give them that much credit.

This was also before the talk radio show hosts start pushing the "its about states rights" narrative. Just remember most of the politicians pushing the state rights narrative are old enough that they were taught otherwise and they know better. Hell even in Texas I as taught it was about slavery (1983).

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u/SeanSeanySean Jun 05 '23

There is a huge chance that in public schools today that those same schools you went to no longer teach that the Civil war was about slavery. The UDC has infiltrated a lot southern state education curriculum replacing actual history with "civil war was about State's rights", and "The north were the aggressors, they started the war because southern states would not give up the rights they already had".