L L wrote:
The 1619 Project is an effort to teach more about the origins of slavery in schools.
The main premise of Tom Cotton’s “slavery was a necessary evil” comment was that he was asking for federal funding to be withheld from schools who offered to teach this.
Correct. And if we teach falsehoods like "slavery was a necessary evil" then we will never learn anything from history. Our students will only learn a Soviet style of history where the United States is eternally virtuous and can never do anything wrong.
Our treatment of native Americans was a necessary evil
Japanese interment camps were a necessary evil.
The Tuskegee syphilis experiments were a necessary evil.
Segregation was a necessary evil.
Child separations at the border are a necessary evil.