Indeed, the very act of learning history in a free and multiethnic society is inescapably fraught. Any accurate teaching of any country’s history could make some of its citizens feel uncomfortable (or even guilty) about the past. To deny this necessary consequence of education is, to quote W.E.B. Du Bois, to transform “history into propaganda.”
The problem is intentional cherry picking of history to intentionally alter accuracy. Unless I can walk into a classroom and tell every student about the atrocities committed by each and every group to exact detail. you just defeated your own point retard.
If learning history in a multi-ethnic society is so hard, maybe we shouldn't have a multi-ethnic society. And if something that ought to be as straightforward as teaching history becomes difficult, how much more difficult does it make legitimately difficult social tasks?
The problem is intentional cherry picking of history to intentionally alter accuracy. Unless I can walk into a classroom and tell every student about the atrocities committed by each and every group to exact detail. you just defeated your own point retard.
If learning history in a multi-ethnic society is so hard, maybe we shouldn't have a multi-ethnic society. And if something that ought to be as straightforward as teaching history becomes difficult, how much more difficult does it make legitimately difficult social tasks?