The British also outlawed widow burning (suttee) in India, and it would be amusing to hear your student justify India’s caste system.
Never mind all the messy details, all anybody needs to know is: Whitey is bad and evil, everybody else is good, noble and sinless.
>Never mind all the messy details, all anybody needs to know is: Whitey is bad and evil, everybody else is good, noble and sinless.
Yeah, we had another discussion about slavery and I asked her “You do know that 1 million white Europeans were enslaved over hundreds of years by Africans, right?”
She, of course, did not, so I talked about the Barbary Pirates for a few minutes and then asked, “Why were you never told about this? It seems quite important.”
Then we got into a discussion about historical narratives and truths. It’s a very thin line you have to walk as well when you do it, because many times a few of them are on the verge of exploding from the new information.