☭World Views
29th October 2010, 19:27
In class today we had to watch a movie critical of Disney films, examples of stereotypes, etc. And how movies and early school years revise history.
Now we should all be familiar on the general purpose of doing so, but the position the class took was that while bourgeois movies and education tend to "white wash" history, exposing children to the history of genocide and racism would be harmful.
Now in a class of 200 uninterested students I didn't feel it was worth speaking up, but do you think that is okay?
What's wrong with instilling children starting at the age of 4 the real nature of genocide, slavery, the TRUE function of the "criminal justice system", the idea that the way society and the world is organized is fundamentally wrong on false premises that affect every facet of the super-structure, etc?
Could teaching children that put you in legal trouble? I'd love to have a 5 year old that would stand up to the teacher and effectively refute all the revisions and negationisms.
Now we should all be familiar on the general purpose of doing so, but the position the class took was that while bourgeois movies and education tend to "white wash" history, exposing children to the history of genocide and racism would be harmful.
Now in a class of 200 uninterested students I didn't feel it was worth speaking up, but do you think that is okay?
What's wrong with instilling children starting at the age of 4 the real nature of genocide, slavery, the TRUE function of the "criminal justice system", the idea that the way society and the world is organized is fundamentally wrong on false premises that affect every facet of the super-structure, etc?
Could teaching children that put you in legal trouble? I'd love to have a 5 year old that would stand up to the teacher and effectively refute all the revisions and negationisms.