Top U.S General Defends Critical Race Theory.

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[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well CRT is about narratives as much as truth which is why people protest about it. It's not because they're afraid of history being taught it's that they disagree profoundly with the anti-white narrative contained within CRT. Framing it as a war against history is a slimy little trick but I'd expect nothing different. Our society is full of slimy little tricksters.

That being said I presume you want soldiers reading books that are thoroughly patriotic or even chauvinistic in their perspective on American history right? This is, after all, merely a matter of learning all angles not indoctrination of a certain outlook and world-view.

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Our society is full of slimy little tricksters.

It's not really an emotional issue. It's related to understanding the past. As a historian, I've seen in high school and college and several countries that students of history have for decades wanted to know much more about the subject, warts and all. In fact, students often have a sense that something is missing when they are given white-washed or incomplete histories. The only solution to dealing with those who are controlling the historical narratives is to offer much more information, not less. This is the fundamental principle of Historicism and New Historicism and other theories and methods of historiography.