Another Attempt at Book Banning

ucbalumnus
Wed, 07 Dec 2016 16:49:57 +0000

fractalmstr:

When I was in grade school, I certainly didn’t feel I was being taught a pro-white version of history. I was taught white people were horrible in almost every way imaginable – they invaded Indian occupied land in NA, kept slaves, were involved in colonialism, Viking barbarism, etc, etc, etc. In fact, I honestly can’t remember one instance where white people were actually portrayed positively.

Even the ones who opposed slavery or opposed abusing Native Americans, etc.?

On the other hand, an honest reading of history will make a lot of people look worse than they are idealized (or excused) as. Of course, if you take a racial view of people representing their race (even though people usually only represent themselves, even when they claim to do something relating to their race), all racial groups will look bad based on looking at their worst actors. White people just happen to be most numerous among influential people in US history.