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Trump's PBS replacement features Columbus telling kids that slavery was "no big deal"
The Trump administration is now seeking to replace PBS with “Prager University,” a far-right propaganda organization that isn’t actually a university.
One of their “kids videos” has Christopher Columbus telling them that slavery was “no big deal” and “better than being killed.”
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then I saw that. Prager U materials are now approved for use in Florida schools 
Mind blowingly mental and manipulative.
Apocalypto
What ever happened to “give me liberty or give me death?” Can’t have it both ways fascists.
In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.
Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, p11
Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, p11
