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Exactly - part of America's heritage of a free, unusually aggressive, and intellectually combative free press (on both sides of the political spectrum) is that
by intro-b 9y ago
Exactly - part of America's heritage of a free, unusually aggressive, and intellectually combative free press (on both sides of the political spectrum) is that criticism of our government, history, and society is widely studied and disseminated, both domestically and abroad. Knowledge of American human rights injustices, ranging from slavery to Guantanamo Bay, is promoted, shared, taught in schools.
- ceejayoz 9y agoIt should be noted that American schools teach plenty of revisionist history or gloss over the worst excesses. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/opinion/how-texas-teaches-history.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/opinion/how-texas-teaches... https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/150-years-later-schools-are-still-a-battlefield-for-interpreting-civil-war/2015/07/05/e8fbd57e-2001-11e5-bf41-c23f5d3face1_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/150-years-lat... https://jezebel.com/heres-how-new-texas-public-school-textbooks-write-about-1726786557 https://jezebel.com/heres-how-new-texas-public-school-textbo...
- junkscience2017 9y agonot just America. growing up in Canada, exactly 0 minutes were dedicated to discussing treatment of First Nations peoples...noteworthy given that government's exceptionally awful history in that regard
- fartcannon 9y agoHuh. I went to public school in Ontario between 1987 and 2000 and all I ever learned about first nations people was how shitty they were treated. It was so often the point of our geography and canadian history lessons that I feel like the only thing I know about Canada's history is that they treated first nations poorly. It was so heavily reenforced that a lot of my schoolmates got empathy fatigue. Where and when did you go to school in Canada?