Posted on 01/15/2022 5:20:51 PM PST by Apparatchik
The right-wing fight to suppress the teaching of uncomfortable truths in public schools reached a comical new low this week in a Virginia bill that blatantly misstated a basic fact about U.S. history.
Wren Williams, a 33-year-old Republican, pre-filed the bill on Tuesday, the day before he was sworn in as a new member of the Virginia House of Delegates. It proposed a new standard for regulating high-school social studies curricula in the state, including a requirement that students learn about “the first debate between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.”
This was a clear misunderstanding of the 1858 “Lincoln-Douglas debates,” in which Steven Douglas, a then-sitting senator from Illinois—not Frederick Douglass, the famed abolitionist—faced off against Abraham Lincoln on the issue of slavery.
Naturally, Williams was dragged online for the on-the-nose error, which seemed to prove exactly why censorious legislators should not be entrusted with the teaching of historical facts.
But on Friday, the Virginia Division of Legislative Services, a nonpartisan government agency that formats and edits drafts of legislation, claimed responsibility. The error “was inserted at the drafting level, following receipt of a historically accurate request from the office of Delegate Wren Williams,” according to a statement from the division.
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But does Slate care? Hell no! They go right back to demonizing conservatives.
This is getting ridiculous.
“””””Naturally, Williams was dragged online for the on-the-nose error, which seemed to prove exactly why censorious legislators should not be entrusted with the teaching of historical facts.””””
How about censorious news media or big tech? Should they be censoring people like they are currently?
What a stupid argument. Both sides should be debated. But it seems that only one side is allowed to express their opinion right now.
Without the press lying the Democrats would be pushovers.
They admit the error but they just roll on ahead anyway. This is all propaganda.
Don’t forget that these “errors” are sometimes not errors. Like staff plagiarizing Michelle Obama’s speech.
Slate is still a thing?
Sheesh. Whod’a known it?
Hey, Slate... It’s STEPHEN Douglas, not Steven Douglas. If you fellas are going to attack, get the name right.
They admit the error but they just roll on ahead anyway. This is all propaganda.
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