You see how there’s a difference between saying slavery was good and saying that slaves developed skills that could be applied for their personal benefit?
Those are absolutely not the same positions.
You're looking only at the literal content of the assertion, and not at the structure of the discussion which would position that assertion as a point worth making.
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YES! I am looking at exactly what is being taught and what is being proposed, and I am not looking at any sort of theory behind why they would teach it, or any theory of motivation or conspiracy or any other abstraction.
I honestly don’t care why they would be teaching something true. All I care about is that they are teaching something true.
