In my 7th grade history class(I’m 65) my teacher said in our lifetime minorities would outnumber whites in this country & there were powerful whites that were not happy about that & would try to stay in power. I was rose colored glasses naive & thought he was wrong. He was so very right💔
Please don't tell me to read something again. This is bluesky and that is Facebook Spam behavior. I read it the first time and understood it. I don't need to read it again. It's a little insulting when you tell me to read it again as if I couldn't possibly have understood it the first time.
This was making its way around last year when the US was funding and running political cover for genocide and student protestors were being arrested for speaking out.
Now liberals who cheered on genocide and silencing of protestors are using it to describe the hell they created.
We must all STAND UP against the evil we see in front of our faces....& STAND UP for people who are treated unjustly. We are a Nation of Immigrants with different cultures & ideals, we must stand up for others rights to be who they are.
I did something similar. Students couldn’t even remember I was wearing bright red outfit. They were so shocked. Then they were shocked at how easily the wee manipulated
I was trying to picture doing this to my students. I teach at a diverse high school in Florida. I was thinking of the students who wouldn't let it happen. It's my Black students (mostly the girls) And that tracks with what is going on in real time.
Thank you for posting this. Now is the time when we all need to speak out against what we’ve seen and are continuing to see with our own eyes:
Trump, Musk, Vance & every Republican destroying our country while supporting Putin - a despicable murderous, tyrant.
“Don’t ever let anyone tell you that what you see with your own eyes isn’t happening.” Hits different in 2024.
We are constantly being told not to trust what’s in front of us—whether it’s politics, media, or daily life. How do you push back when gaslighting is everywhere?
I tried this once in my high school classroom. Even though I had discussed this with the “targeted” student, one of the bystanders ended up in tears and it upset several others. I would not recommend doing this simulation—there are more effective methods.
What would you suggest as a more effective method? I understand students being upset, but they should be upset, right? Seems like a lesson that would stick with you forever.
They don’t have to be upset to have empathy. I create scenarios for my students; they can see themselves going along for fear of retribution or not believing that the worst can happen to them. I do this in a discussion format and they understand how the Holocaust happened in phases. Without tears.
Hope everyone in Congress will read this, especially Republicans. They are failing the country big time. This is the time when the country could do with a divided Congress, so desperately!
I guarantee you that I would have been thrown out of the class in defense of my schoolmate, but not because I'm some sort of hero. I have always challenged the adults in life. I'm certain it has to do with my Catholic upbringing and the fact that my old man was a San Francisco police sergeant.
Those who are not also applying this to what is happening to Palestinians have completely missed the point. This isn’t a concept only relevant to what affects your personal life. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Something similar happened in my 7th grade history class, the only difference was my history teacher had actual been in one of the camps. My favorite teacher of all time.
Good teacher, good lesson. But not the only one. Back in the 1970s, a social studies class was getting bored with a lesson on Nazi Germany. The teacher came up with "The Wave", which drove the lesson home in the real world. There was a video about The Wave, but who knows where it is now.
This is rich. Just look at how workplaces - including public employers & hospitals- treat accidental whistleblowers and employees who request minimal ADA accommodations like bright light removal. Pretending we haven’t long lived shoulder to shoulder with terrible, selfish humans is how we got Trump
PSYCHOPATHS Putin’s/Trump’s/Eloon’s MAGAs are a redux of PSYCHOPATH Hitler’s Nazis = psychopaths (1 in 25 persons in the general population) & their psychotic human pets.
History’s confirmed that these stupid, fragile, gaslighting, SADISTIC PERVERTS will grow HORRIFICALLY worse until stopped.
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Now liberals who cheered on genocide and silencing of protestors are using it to describe the hell they created.
Wild times.
I worked in a tough school.
In an assembly, I got all the kids with a surname beginning with M to stand up and I put them in detention.
I was very pleased I almost had a riot.
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Trump, Musk, Vance & every Republican destroying our country while supporting Putin - a despicable murderous, tyrant.
We are constantly being told not to trust what’s in front of us—whether it’s politics, media, or daily life. How do you push back when gaslighting is everywhere?
The endless, repetitive spew of lies and disinformation is NOT 'free speech', its a method for programming youth.
Forcing media to bow and those that don't are silenced!!
Just sayin'
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One of whom said when she immediately stood up to the teacher she got in trouble for “ruining the lesson”
As an aside, you must fight. It is easier to fight when you have support from others, but even when you don't, do not be afraid.
A great example for all!!
History’s confirmed that these stupid, fragile, gaslighting, SADISTIC PERVERTS will grow HORRIFICALLY worse until stopped.
Thanks for sharing ❤
Most American kids can’t even point out Canada on a map, never mind the Netherlands so would have literally no idea what the story was about…