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Topic	Liberals furious due to 4th Graders assignment to list good reasons for slavery.
Soviet_Poland 01/13/18 3:14:12 AM #143:	HypnoCoosh posted... Because it's called teaching. Critical thinking. Don't stick your head in the sand bad things happened and are still happening in some places. Ignoring or acting like it's taboo doesn't help a single thing or person. 4th graders. Some of them don't fully understand the concept of sarcasm yet. And we're trying to get them to think about the motivations underpinning why some people exploited others for their own gain? The Admiral posted... Kids should learn the rationale for why slavery existed, and it's not the Tumblr explanation of "racist evil white man want to oppress poor dark skin man!!" I agree with you. At a developmentally appropriate age. As mentioned several times in this thread, the minutiae in understanding complex social histories is a bit over their heads at that age. It's like trying to teach them calculus. Which is why people are jumping on you in this thread. It really comes off as disingenuous and you being a bit too eager in the exercise of thinking of "good" reasons for slavery. --- "He has two neurons held together by a spirochete." <cite>Soviet_Poland posted [p:893953101] in Liberals f... [t:76194285]...</cite> <quote><cite>HypnoCoosh posted...</cite> <quote>Because it's called teaching. Critical thinking. Don't stick your head in the sand bad things happened and are still happening in some places. Ignoring or acting like it's taboo doesn't help a single thing or person.</quote> 4th graders. Some of them don't fully understand the concept of sarcasm yet. And we're trying to get them to think about the motivations underpinning why some people exploited others for their own gain? <cite>The Admiral posted...</cite> <quote>Kids should learn the rationale for why slavery existed, and it's not the Tumblr explanation of "racist evil white man want to oppress poor dark skin man!!"</quote> I agree with you. At a developmentally appropriate age. As mentioned several times in this thread, the minutiae in understanding complex social histories is a bit over their heads at that age. It's like trying to teach them calculus. Which is why people are jumping on you in this thread. It really comes off as disingenuous and you being a bit too eager in the exercise of thinking of "good" reasons for slavery. --- "He has two neurons held together by a spirochete."</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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