This just reinforces the need to have real talks with our children about what propaganda is, what "history" is, and how to be critical thinkers and not believe everything they're told.

There is no such thing as "insert marginalized group here" history, only our understanding of past events and cultural lore, none of which is necessarily true or complete in our understanding of the facts.

The government day cares and indoctrination centers will continue to do exactly what they were designed and incentivized to do - train our children to be slaves to the state. The only thing we can do is deprogram and retrain our children (gently, of course) to see beyond the textbooks and teachers.

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I agree!

Fyi in India the Dalit have been labled since 400AD

Clearly westen ideologies have been adopted and is the only lense you view for the world from.

Are you saying that lgbtq (and whomever else may feel "marginalized") would all be considered Dalit? I don't know enough about the caste system and distinctions that go into it.

And how does India teach Dalit history? is it separated somehow from history taught to other castes? Just curious - trying to figure out how different the ideologies actually are on this point.

The original article was written in the US, discussing US/western practices, however I don't know that anything I stated, while definitely intended for a western audience, is any less true within other ideologies. That said, a more collectivist ideology might prefer to be indoctrinated through state/statist education centers, and may thrive on this path as dutiful members of the collective.

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