# Alabama drags education back to pre-1861 days

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**Created:** [March 21, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-drags-education-back-to-pre-1861-days/999145 "2024-03-21T14:46:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2024, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-drags-education-back-to-pre-1861-days/999145/39 "2024-03-23T06:17:13Z")

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> [@Moriarty](#):
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> Yeah, that’s really not true.

> **[White guilt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_guilt)**
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> White guilt is a belief that white people bear a collective responsibility for the harm which has resulted from historical or current racist treatment of people belonging to other racial groups, as for example in the context of the Atlantic slave trade, European colonialism, and the genocide of indigenous peoples.\[citation needed\]
> In certain regions of the Western world, it can be called white settler guilt, white colonial guilt, and other variations, which refer to the guilt more pointedly in r...

This is getting into a hijack I think. So, no more.

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