It was beneficial.
To white property owners. Much to the detriment of enslaved Africans and their descendants.
Literally the first sentence of the article. Emphasis added.
Students at Florida public schools will now learn that Black people benefitted from slavery because it taught them skills.
Ironically, one of the (many) reasons this is total bullshit is that not all slaves were imported for unskilled physical labor. In the Carolinas, when landowners began growing rice they paid a premium for female slaves from west Africa who had experience with rice cultivation because they had no idea how to do it themselves. So it would be accurate to say that white people benefited from slavery because it taught them skills.
It's also basically the main reason that the US becamean superpower before WW1
pass on the message that "slavery was so beneficial that this time white people should be enslaved" and watch the whole thing die out.
Yes! Let’s take turnsies! I nominate the entire upper class! It’s time for people like Musk and his ilk to get into the mines!
my turn : I nominate all right-wing politicians.
why should they be denied the many benefits of slavery?
Repealing slavery is the third rail of American politics!
/s, but for a while literally yes.
They're already on the way to doing that. The slow striping of worker's rights won't have a natural end until everyone but the elites are serfs.
I can't stop working. Even if my retirement accounts continue to exist for the three more decades it will take me to begin drawing from them, I have no way to know and absolutely no trust that they quantity of money will be sufficient to support me.
The bank can take pretty much anything I own if I lose my job and fall behind, which severely curtails my ability to do anything except exactly what I'm told at work.
What's the major difference between this and serfdom, except that my current lords don't even have to supply me with food and shelter directly?
Some are actually trying to bring company towns back. In some countries, Walmart pays their employees, in whole or in part, with gift cards.
In the US, Walmart pays their employees by teaching them to file for food stamps and then keeping their pay depressed enough to qualify.
Bonus, those employees use those food stamps at Walmart.
What a sick thing to say…
When you care more about profits than people, that’s the kind of slavery apologist shit that you say… just disgusting…
"Students at Florida public schools will now learn that Black people benefitted from slavery because it taught them skills."
Are these people fucking insane?
I don’t wanna chalk it up to some psychological issue, but I think they are very much in denial about this and will say anything to absolve themselves of the responsibility they have to teach history before it repeats.
So instead, they rewrite history…
Which brings me to my next point. I also don’t want to chalk it up to some psychological issue because literally whitewashing history like this is an evil thing to do. It’s a choice they are making…
I am sure this will be the GOP/Nazi party line in Florida.
Increasing temperatures and CO2 levels have been linked to decreased brain function. People literally can't think straight and get dumber. With the weather in Florida, Texas, this is beginning to check out.
On all seriousness though, how is this even legal for a bunch of local statesmen to resign educational system, whitewash history, prosecute women and minorities? At what point does the federal government step in?
The changes to Florida's education system made in the previous decade have been dismal. Florida is driving itself into the ground, not the least because climate change will sink the state in the next century. DeSantis and his ilk need to be removed from office and soon or the states they govern could take decades or even possibly a century to recover.
What is wrong with people?!
Conservatism.
Fascism. Don't let neo conservative ethno fascists hide behind some cushy word. They know what they are, we know what they are.
this. the GOP has picked their lane, and anyone who doesn't completely and unequivocally oppose the GOP is a fascist. this isn't a generalization or hyperbole, it's political reality now
Same thing. Except I think Conservatism embraces ignorance more. Fascism + Prideful Ignorance = Conservatism
"Sorry madam, but, you know... god is always correct and if people do not think so they will riot"
the linked article is quite poorly written, but I also had to look at 4 different stories to find some details
When high school students learn about events such as the 1920 Ocoee massacre, the new rules require that instruction include "acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans." The massacre is considered the deadliest Election Day violence in US history and, according to several histories of the incident, it started when Moses Norman, a prominent Black landowner in the Ocoee, Florida, community, attempted to cast his ballot and was turned away by White poll workers.
What!? There is something seriously wrong with this! Just don't do business with Florida at all.
Every time someone says America was built on slavery they are saying slavery was beneficial.
Our nation would be larger and stronger if slavery never existed. Never forget that slavery stole from all of us.
"Built on slavery" is referring to the benefits that the ruling class received by exploiting slaves and that exploitation is a core part of US culture. It reminds people that most of the population was not included in the "all men are created equal" documents of the time.
It is not a positive phrase about general benefits for everyone. It is a reminder that we did, and still do, terrible things and we should not forget.