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I think I mean that if we accept that our history lessons/education was loaded by a specific bias, why would we think that teaching the new young through the prism of a different bias is better.
We don't have access to our own inner history with any accuracy. Wouldn't it be more honest to lay in front of students that "history" is the past viewed from today's perspective. Lay all the perspectives in front of them so they realise it's such a complex thing that we can actually have knowledge of almost nothing. Being so muddy of course goes against the very thrust of education which is to build up the belief in people that they have knowledge when in fact they have opinions (mostly others'opinions). So to educate to the point of self recognition of ignorance would be a real revolution. But if achieved it would surely shift the focus to how society believes it should behave now, rather than endless varying reruns of the past.
Our education system does for everyone what Freudian analysis does for individuals...Locks people into endless analysis rather than action in the moment.
Phew! Just an opinion of course..
Nick

and one that makes a lot of sense to me you must have a headache now...

I had one near the beginning of this thread!

I'm with Nick on this.

I found a very apt and contextual passage.

'For many years the practice of human sacrifice and cannibalism among the Aztecs was denied by many, and their brutality towards prisoners presented as a reflection of the equally brutal treatment they received at the hands of the Spanish conquerors.'

How does one differentiate between one nations cruelty against another nations cruelty? And how do you align the common history from each nations prospective and potential sense of injustice.

Looked BLM up TBM - looks okay but a bit cancel culturish deciding if we can comment or not in this forum

BLM just another American import that we could do without. Trick or treat anyone?

No, they can have it back with McDonalds and Burger King too totally crap food

Mind they can leave me a Bullitt Mustang behind

ALL Lives matter... no reason to pick out any particular group for special attention, indeed to do so is, in my opinion, a form of positive discrimination: this is as odious, as negative discrimination.
Our human history is what it is, much of it not at all to be proud of, but it is what it is and agonizing over the sins of our forefathers is not going to help.
Trying to re-write it is impossible.
Human society has to learn to understand the context of the past and strive not to make the same mistakes again (I'm not hopeful).

I am impressed with the way the F1 message "We race as one" has evolved. We need to live as one.

Mea Culpa. Wrong audience.

Won't make that mistake again,