# "Florida Schools Will Teach How Slavery Brought ‘Personal Benefit’ to Black People" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 20, 2023, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-schools-will-teach-how-slavery-brought-personal-benefit-to-black-people/987304 "2023-07-20T14:46:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 96
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-schools-will-teach-how-slavery-brought-personal-benefit-to-black-people/987304/96 "2023-07-21T17:00:11Z")
> [@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?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-internet-so-bad-with-nuance-and-is-there-anything-that-can-be-done/987310): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-schools-will-teach-how-slavery-brought-personal-benefit-to-black-people/987304)._