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A moment of of history that perhaps the west should learn from, before allowing 'culture wars' to escalate further.

by bluescrn 3y ago

adrr 3y ago
How can you learn from the past if you censor the past?
- interludead 3y ago
  It's imposible, learning from the past requires an open and honest examination of historical events
pavlov 3y ago
Germany doesn’t have a problem showing Holocaust movies, and America doesn’t have a problem showing movies about segregation and lynchings. Both kinds of movies regularly receive highest national awards like the Oscars. The West remains far from this kind of social amnesia.
- FactKnower69 3y ago
  >America doesn’t have a problem showing movies about segregation and lynchings >The West remains far from this kind of social amnesia. Did you forget how one of the two major American political parties has become completely obsessed in the past 5 years with trying to make it illegal to teach the history of the genocides this country has perpetrated?
  - AnthonyMouse 3y ago
    Have people still not caught on to the con with this? Teaching the history of genocides is different than teaching them in a context of "people of European descent are uniquely evil and deserve to be punished for the historical crimes of people with the same skin color." When someone tries to teach the latter, other people sensibly object to it. But because it's politics, the team objecting to it will try to paint it as a central example of what's being taught, when it's actually an extremist position that could be righteously kicked out of the building. Then that team will have their own crackpots, some of whom are racists too. The original team then finds an instance of someone on the objecting team saying something indefensible and tries to paint that as a central example of what the other team's objections are, when it's actually an extremist position that could be righteously kicked out of the building. They're both just lying to you about their opponents while downplaying the wrongness of their own extremists, because it's politics.

A moment of of history that perhaps the west should learn from, before allowing 'culture wars' to escalate further.

adrr 3y ago

How can you learn from the past if you censor the past?

interludead 3y ago
It's imposible, learning from the past requires an open and honest examination of historical events

pavlov 3y ago

Germany doesn’t have a problem showing Holocaust movies, and America doesn’t have a problem showing movies about segregation and lynchings. Both kinds of movies regularly receive highest national awards like the Oscars. The West remains far from this kind of social amnesia.

FactKnower69 3y ago
>America doesn’t have a problem showing movies about segregation and lynchings >The West remains far from this kind of social amnesia. Did you forget how one of the two major American political parties has become completely obsessed in the past 5 years with trying to make it illegal to teach the history of the genocides this country has perpetrated?
- AnthonyMouse 3y ago
  Have people still not caught on to the con with this? Teaching the history of genocides is different than teaching them in a context of "people of European descent are uniquely evil and deserve to be punished for the historical crimes of people with the same skin color." When someone tries to teach the latter, other people sensibly object to it. But because it's politics, the team objecting to it will try to paint it as a central example of what's being taught, when it's actually an extremist position that could be righteously kicked out of the building. Then that team will have their own crackpots, some of whom are racists too. The original team then finds an instance of someone on the objecting team saying something indefensible and tries to paint that as a central example of what the other team's objections are, when it's actually an extremist position that could be righteously kicked out of the building. They're both just lying to you about their opponents while downplaying the wrongness of their own extremists, because it's politics.