Well, howdy there internet people, Lidsboo again. So today we're going to talk about Texas,

a term, and teaching history. Because there was a proposal to introduce some new terminology to history classes there.

And the term they wanted to introduce was involuntary relocation.

There are a lot of points in American history where that is an appropriate term,

because that's what happened right?

The problem is in this case they wanted to use the term involuntary relocation

as a substitute for the slave trade.

Yeah, I don't think that fits.

That doesn't seem appropriate.

Now, luckily, the Department of Education there in Texas they agree and they kind

of shot this down, sent it back and was like yeah you need to work on this term and

good that they shot this down. But let's talk

about how we got to this point. Why is there a push to introduce this terminology or similar terminology.

What's the goal?

To soften it?

That's the goal.

The goal is to make the hideous blot of slavery seem a little bit more

palatable. Why? Because a whole bunch of people got together and decided, oh, we don't

want history talk critically. We don't want students to know the good, the bad, and the ugly and the hideous of American history.

We just want them to feel good about themselves. We just want them to feel good about

the country. They don't want American history taught. They want American mythology. They

want propaganda taught. And they want it packaged as if it was history.

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