The right wing trap is: “We don’t need African American history because it’s American history” only to mandate teaching American history through a false, Eurocentric view that erases or omits any counter-narrative. They feign care about African American history to erase it from curriculums. /1 - ThreadSky

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marceliusb.bsky.social • 7 days ago

The right wing trap is: “We don’t need African American history because it’s American history” only to mandate teaching American history through a false, Eurocentric view that erases or omits any counter-narrative. They feign care about African American history to erase it from curriculums. /1

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marceliusb.bsky.social•7 days ago

They also label any history that centers race, ethnicity, sexuality, etc. as exclusionary or discriminatory when it’s actually about specificity. It centers the particular experiences/perspectives of groups that are often ignored in the context of history that centers the majority perspective. /2

semiquaver.bsky.social•7 days ago

...and this is not just a flawed intellectual posture such as some asshat Claremont Institute scholar might take - this is *law*. They are making it illegal to center black people for example! Using force of law to compel scholarship! What world is this?

representthepeople.bsky.social•7 days ago

I am still dumbfounded at my conservative friends and family that don't see this for what it is.

America was built on trafficking and abusing people that are "other." This belief system is an extension of "we didn't learn our history."

mariojn.bsky.social•7 days ago

What gets me is when President Trump say “we’re going to get rid of racial so so from out of America “ we are going to form a merit country. Like come on now, you would never give black people the equality we deserve yet the pedigree owed to us. I believe in fairness but this seems to be a hand hide

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