Fox News host Jesse Watters defended Florida's new controversial curriculum on Friday, which teaches "how Black people developed skills during slavery."
There’s some considerable cross over between slavery was good because it taught slaves skills, and wage slavery is good because it teachers wage slaves skills.
Rhetorically, it feels like both a return and an advancement of a stupid ideology: a return in the sense that slavers believed this shit during their own time, and an advancement because they’ll potentially use this same line of reasoning for increasingly slave-like conditions for workers. “At least you’re learning skills to become more valuable…” as if that’s a good thing.
There’s some considerable cross over between slavery was good because it taught slaves skills, and wage slavery is good because it teachers wage slaves skills.
Rhetorically, it feels like both a return and an advancement of a stupid ideology: a return in the sense that slavers believed this shit during their own time, and an advancement because they’ll potentially use this same line of reasoning for increasingly slave-like conditions for workers. “At least you’re learning skills to become more valuable…” as if that’s a good thing.