I have absolutely no problem with them teaching accurate American and world history (which includes slavery). Not sure why I would. Kinda confused by that assumption on your part. Iāve also never met a white parent who felt they shouldnāt be teaching about slavery. How could you even teach the civil war without teaching slavery for instance?
What Iām referring to above in terms of indoctrination is more about conformity, state centrism, collectivism, ideological bias etcā¦
That said your worldview as described above would fall under ideological bias in my opinion. White Europeans historically arenāt any more evil than any other group of people and white children today certainly bear no responsibility for the actions of people who looked like them hundreds of years ago.
History is always far more nuanced than this group bad/ this group good. Free blacks owned slaves for instance, native Americans owned slaves. Africans sold other Africans into slavery.
Personally Iām deeply against the teaching of any history that lays blame on any group or individual. Human affairs are complex, messy and deeply human and always have been. All history should be told as accurately as possible.
I have personally met white parents in Florida who believe that the history of American slavery should not be taught in public schools. I wrongfully assumed that you shared that sentiment thatās my bad. However, I do agree with your stance on American education. I also believe that all humans have some degree of ideological bias.
I am with you on it being somewhat damaging to black kids though. Iām Irish weāre colonized white people, but I didnāt have to sit through an endless list of atrocities the English did to my ancestors. If I had it may have created psychological trauma of being less than. Not sure. Hard to know. Very complicated subject.
It 1000% created psychological trauma that is very evident and can be seen in Black American culture right now but we could talk for hours about that like you said complicated subject
Itās good to have the discussion though and whatever moron parents you were talking to in Florida are completely clueless as far as Iām concerned.
Iāve never met anyone who thinks we shouldnāt learn about slavery. Speaking from an anti-woke perspective, thatās fucking retarded. Slavery was the intractable sin eating away at the core of our Founding, and the country almost drowned in its own blood to remove it. Frederick Douglass is one of the most impressive people to ever walk this Earth, and every kid should know his story.
But anyone who thinks that topic is the whole story of our country, either to endlessly invoke it, or to twist it and hide from it, is broken and doing themselves no favors.
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