Breaking: Florida Senate passes GOP-backed ban on teaching students to 'feel guilt' for history!

CNN reports that: The Florida Senate voted Thursday to ban public schools and private businesses from teaching people to feel guilty for historical events committed by people of their race, addressing a top priority of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis,” (CNN).

Now, let me ask the question: What does this mean? I thought that people develop feelings of guilt and so on based on their human consciences and consciousness. However, does this mean that we cannot teach the truth about what actually happened in the US racial history? Now if they’re saying that teaching about how white people enslaved and discriminated against Black and Brown People is tantamount to teaching people to “feel guilt” for historical events, then it would mean that teachers can no longer teach the truth about the past. It would mean that they can teach about the nice part or a diluted version that continues to stroke the white races’ egos over another race; A race that still bears the scars of their past while exposed to a story (advocated by this law if that’s the meaning) that minimizes said scars so as to satisfy the children of the white races’ guilt and save them from the pain that their forefathers caused that the children of slaves still bear. 
I posted this on a discussion group on Reddit and several persons commented. You can follow and join the discussions about this matter at: Reddit. Here’s one comment on my Reddit post and I will provide one of my replies and arguments regarding Florida’s decision to pass this ban. 
See Comment Here: “The easiest way to get around this as a teacher is adding a disclaimer/discussion at the beginning of the lesson that lets students know they are not responsible for the past but are responsible for the future. That can relieve that feeling of guilt while simultaneously empowering them to create change in our society that won’t systematically discriminate against people of color.( Again, reiterate that they are not responsible for building the systems they were born into.) You could even add the kicker that none of us asked to be born, but now that we are here and see injustice everywhere it is our duty to do something about it.
What do you think, would this hold up in the court of law?”

My Reply Here: Good point. Further, instead of finding ways to prevent guilt feelings, why not explore methods that ensure each student can create a future that does not repeat the past. Isn’t that the BEST way to prevent or respond to feelings of guilt. For passing this bill would seem as an attempt to forget the past so as to cover guilt that has not yet been resolved since talking about the past still breathes guilt among the legacies or children of the past. Further, how can we lead into the future with a brighter and better prospect without learning from mistakes and ills of the past!
This Forida ban against teaching students to #feelguilt on #history seems to be based on bad analysis, in that, it presumes that people aren’t responsible for their own emotions or their internal feelings or responses towards external stimuli. The fact is, each person is different and unique and may have one feeling or reaction towards an external stimuli which differs from another when exposed to the same stimuli. This is where #Descartes was useful, when he arrived at “cogito ergo sum”—pointing out that we can’t really know anything outside of our own minds. In a sense this bill blames the truth of history contained in lessons that’s actually on the school’s curriculum or business programs to develop diversity among their staff. Further, this bill gives students tremendous authority over the classroom and learning, for any student can now say they feel guilty from any lesson in history that is taught. 

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