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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

But the cartoon's main argument is that schools are indoctrinating young students with facts that make them feel bad.

1) That's not really what's happening - young kids are not really informed of the actual brutal past, nor would they understand it

2) Students should learn facts

3) There are ways of teaching facts that do not cause emotional distress

4) Unless we learn about these facts at a young age, we'll continue to be complicit in the attrocities committed by our countries

5) Young students learn about the group in a manner outlined by Jean Piaget, in stages, and cannot understand the actual traumas of history until after the onset of puberty

6) The purpose of this cartoon is to promote the idea that lies about the past are best for our kids, and the implication is that we should also whitewash history for ourselves

7) What's the alternative to teaching facts? Edutainment? Promoting stupidity?

8) History lessons for young kids do not focus on attrocities, and when there is a worthwhile note about an attrocity, it's explained in a very generalized manner

9) Consider the example of the conquest of the Americas, or of India, or by the Roman Empire, &c: it's the standard history of people taking what they want, at all costs. A religious excuse for the conquest of the Americas was: providence

10) When students learn about history - warts and all - they learn about themselves, humanity, and how to potentially avoid the attrocities of the past - and they're not taught in a manner that would cause them emotional distress

11) The cartoon is an excellent example of the kind of cultural infantilism and a culture of narcissism that has spread in the US since the 1970s , whereby the inner child should be coddled to the point of avoiding the attrocities of our governments. Kids and our inner child don't benefit from this coddling, nor do others. Children are dying on a daily basis in Yemen due to hunger, thanks to Saudi Arabia, the US and Israel. We're not teaching children this, but they can read about it in the news. Kids will grow up understanding some of the shadow costs of greed and the military undustrial complex when they are taught basic history. Who among us adults care about what's happening in Yemen? Our views today were shaped by our earlier education.

[–]p_millz 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

4) Unless we learn about these facts at a young age, we'll continue to be complicit in the attrocities committed by our countries

The establishment that is pushing the hot garbage that is CRT has been bombing the Middle East and robbing them of their resources for how long now?

There's no end in sight for those atrocities, so I don't believe they have any interest in making the world a better place. They are simply trying to perpetuate racism forever to prevent the masses from unifying and rebelling. Divide and conquer.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't know what CRT is, but would agree that - because of these attrocities - it's more important now to teach kids history.

[–]Jesus 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

CRT = Critical Race Theory.

I believe it was coined in the Frankfurt school and the goal of it, from my observation, is to traumatize caucasians for no other reason than having lighter skin. That is, they are at fault for the attrocities that occured in the past.

It's markedly idiotic.