• BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes. I’ll come back to this when I’m not working and do a new reply with them. Bottom line it’ll be several books.

    I feel like the first one I read some of this in was "Lies My Teacher Told Me " by James W. Loewen.

    I’ll look through my resources later, maybe later today or this weekend. I know it’s a pain but it’s a lot of books to go through and I don’t really catalog them well for questions like this but I’m happy to share!

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      1 year ago

      I feel like the first one I read some of this in was "Lies My Teacher Told Me " by James W. Loewen.

      Not really challenging the statement, but I wonder where the line should be. Like it is easy to tell kids myths about the founding fathers and other people in history, and I suppose it does make for a good starting point for someone who does not have much context around anything, and still developing their brain. At some point people just want to hold on to those myths rather than learn the context or nuance of what actually happened.

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        1 year ago

        Fair point. I’m no judge for what is right for others. I’m not even sure what I’ve decided is right for me is right. I do have a problem when the past has been glossed over the make terrible actions seem not so.

        I’m reading The Nutmeg’s Curse right now and I’m wondering how many Dutch people know their countrymen slaughtered a people and successfully committed genocide in the 1600s?