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Yeah. I first learned about slavery (and, for that matter, since it was a popular cause at the time, south Asian sweatshops and child labor) in first grade. Thi
by bananarchist 5y ago
Yeah. I first learned about slavery (and, for that matter, since it was a popular cause at the time, south Asian sweatshops and child labor) in first grade. This was a pretty run-of-the-mill public school, and obviously for first grade we were taught at a level relative to our world knowledge, very ideologically rather than politically oriented: people oughta be free, kids should be in school not factories, look at what you have and compare it to what they have/had, etc.
But my first grade teacher was a flat-earther so I didn't really have that going for me.
- pinewurst 5y agoI still remember my sixth-grade teacher going off about the superiority of the Aryan people, but lamenting their poor leadership. Shudder...