Steve QJ
1 min readAug 30, 2021

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Ugh, God, okay man. Life must be so simple when you simply decide what complete strangers are thinking insetad of listening to them. I mean, you'll end up being wrong all the time, but who cares about that eh? As long as you get to tell yourself that you're some paragon of moral virtue.

I haven't suggested I'm unaware of the failures of schools to teach American history accurtely. In fact, if you bothered to read the article instead of trying to read my mind, you'd see that I've even linked to some examples of failures to honestly teach American history! The two issues aren't the same.

It's possible to believe that:

a) the history of racial prejudice in America can and should be taught accurately and comprehensively, without demonising children because of their race.

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b) that the ways in which race is taught inaccurately should be fixed.

These positions do not contradict each other.

Your argument seems to be that if American history is taught accurately we have to make children feel badly about themselves. Therefore anybody who is against making children feel bad about themselves is against an accurate telling of history. If that's how you think then I'm hoping you're not a teacher.

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Steve QJ
Steve QJ

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