This perfectly illustrates the conservative mindset towards engaging with history.

[Nevilledog]

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Di'Rico L. Baker
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Jul 7, 2022
When you get right down to it, this perfectly illustrates the conservative mindset towards engaging with history. They do not want anything that makes America (white people) look like the villains. Hence the anti-CRT backlash.



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It also perfectly illustrates the intellectual dearth of anti-wokeness. They have no interest in learning anything that doesn't either make them feel good or confirm their biases. They're the most intellectually stunted and incurious people you're ever gonna meet.
7:01 AM · Jul 7, 2022

[gratuitous]

1. It's, I don't know, good? that this knucklehead is reading books

But he's clearly not interested in learning anything. Yeah, 400 years of genocide, bad-faith treaties, and other oppression is discomforting if you identify with the bad guys, because it was pretty one-sided. I suppose one could work on developing an atrophied sense of humanity, own up to the past, and work on doing better in the future. Make some kind of gesture toward reparations or reconciliation. Perhaps work on a future where such atrocities don't happen and we treat each other with respect and kindness.

"Naaaaaah."
- Theodoric of York

[Midnight Writer]

2. I take it this conservative is looking for hard-core genocide porn.

[treestar]

3. It does not need to be slanted either way

Why not facts; let people make up their own minds. Both sides want their opinions taught.

[Nevilledog]

4. They're not interested in facts. He's objecting to having to read facts.

[Caliman73]

5. There isn't a "both sides"

The "slant" has been away from American Mythology that glossed over atrocities committed in the founding and expansion of the US toward more accurate recording of the effects of those acts on the Native Americans. Reporting of actual information can be unpleasant, especially if you grew up with the mythology.

I remember growing up reading books about how much of a hero and manly man Andrew Jackson was, how he was so brave and wanted to protect settlers from Indian attacks.

Obviously later I learned that Jackson was a vulgarian. Certainly he was brave fighting in the War of 1812, but he hated the Indigenous people and saw them as subhuman. He instigated a cultural genocide against the Cherokee and Seminole bands to kick them out of Georgia and Florida respectively. Did it make me uncomfortable? Yes. I grew up thinking Jackson was one of the best Presidents. Am I ashamed of the US and myself? No. People did messed up things (and still do). I can only do what I can to make situations better.

The fact that some people cannot come to grips with actual US history is not "slant". It is fragility and an unwillingness to accept that the mythology we are all taught in school is not accurate.

[sanatanadharma]

6. "...along with Coronal Jackson down the mighty Mississipp..."

Andrew Jackson, redcoats, alligators, guns, bacon and beans all set to music, seducing the youth of the time.