Posted on 08/08/2020 3:51:57 AM PDT by C19fan
Educators from around the country have been reflecting on what they teach and how they teach it in the wake of the death of George Floyd and the national protests that followed.
Some lessons up for reconsideration: the dismissive take that it was simply "the norm" that Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned slaves in the late 1700s and language around Christopher Columbus' "discovery" of America.
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Will these woke teachers tell their students the Aztecs were an imperialist power the oppressed their neighborhoods? Will they tell the students the Native Americans instead of living in “harmony” with nature manipulated the environment to suit their needs?
I apologize for Wimp Lo, he is an idiot. We have purposely trained him wrong as a joke...
WTF has a Violent Convicted Felon with a history of Drug Addiction who resisted arrest and died got to do with anything?
Agreed.
These teachers are the very ones who have molded young Americans [Millennials] to admire Communism and hate our form of government.
Knowing Republican teachers here in LA, they tell me it is shocking how today’s teachers try to impress on their students that the USA is the enemy.
Great Grandpa George Floyd discovered America...
Wlil they teach that the North didn’t really fight to free the slaves?
How do you “discover” a country that was crawling with people when you got there?
Ahh - A Howard Zinn protege.
You’re aware that the author of 1619 has said it wasn’t meant to be accurate but allegorical?
What a complete raft of bs.
We are so doomed.
Dis-cover means to uncover.
There were already some (like the Norsemen) who knew there were some lands to the west.
But the whole civilized world did not know until Columbus made landfall and returned.
That is the point when the continents to the west were uncovered, so to speak.
With advanced telescopes and other devices, we are discovering new planets all the time.
Some of those planets may have advanced life, perhaps even humanoid life, on them. So would that negate our discovery of those planets?
Of course not. What makes something a discovery is that prior to that event, it was not known by the prevailing culture calling it a discovery. Prior to the voyage of Columbus, the continents of Europe Asia and Africa where most of civilization resided were completely unaware of the existence of North and South America. The indigenous people living in North and South America were not part of the prevailing culture that was calling it a discovery, so therefore they were not relevant to whether or not those calling it a discovery ought to do so, just as alien life on another planet would not be relevant to astronomers calling it a discovery when that planet first got detected by them.
How do you “discover” a country that was crawling with people when you got there?
Its a reletive thing. That’s simply the way it works out when one culture is simple and static and the other is sophisticated and dynamic. Columbus discovered America for the people who were making history. It’s never been about who was here or who actully came here first.
The indigenous peoples discovered they were not alone in the universe...
Homeschool your kids and have your kids homeschool your grandkids.
Wimp Lo second antagonist in Kung Pow enter the fist.
Unless Columbus was up in the crow’s nest yelling “Land Ho!”, I’d say not. That guy was Luigi Pastabarilla. So blame him.
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