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Re:An update on the campaign to defend serious math educatio... by tonguez on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @03:36PM (#31172138)
“ 1. Blank slate - All humans are of equal ability”

“ 1. This is kind of a founding principle of the country, so...”

yes those slave owning people really thought their slaves were the same as them, totally dude

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Re:An update on the campaign to defend serious math educatio... by CryptoPunk on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @07:38PM (#31174522)
The founding fathers almost all believed slavery was wrong but they were born into a society where it was a core institution and it wasn't obvious how exactly to reform it.

Entitlement principles are why the West was the 1st place in the world to abolish slavery and then went about and abolished it throughout the world.

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Re:An update on the campaign to defend serious math educatio... by wonnage on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @03:49PM (#31172307)
Yeah I heard we tried to end the slavery part somewhere along the way and have been somewhat successful, but we definitely kept the first one.
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