"Florida Schools Will Teach How Slavery Brought ‘Personal Benefit’ to Black People"

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@Odesio

I’m not defending slavery in the least

FWIW, I didn’t think @Ann_Hedonia was accusing you of doing so.

But this whole thread is reminding me that the internet—and certainly the BBQ Pit—is notoriously bad with nuance.

Why is the internet so bad with nuance, and is there anything that can be done?

I keep running into this sort of situation where for example (in one of my videos) I’m growing squashes of my own variety that I maintain by saving seeds from one year to the next. I ALWAYS get people saying stuff like 'OMG you shouldn’t do that! if your squash was cross-pollinated, it will be toxic! U will die!!!" Behind this is a tiny grain of truth: cucurbits are notoriously promiscuous and will cross with other cucurbits - and if you live in a part of the world where wild bitter gourds gr…