• @Buffaloaf
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    51 year ago

    Never heard this before, do you have a source?

    • @BallShapedMan
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      51 year ago

      Yes. I’ll come back to this when I’m not working and do a new reply with them. Bottom line it’ll be several books.

      I feel like the first one I read some of this in was "Lies My Teacher Told Me " by James W. Loewen.

      I’ll look through my resources later, maybe later today or this weekend. I know it’s a pain but it’s a lot of books to go through and I don’t really catalog them well for questions like this but I’m happy to share!

      • @InternetCitizen2
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        21 year ago

        I feel like the first one I read some of this in was "Lies My Teacher Told Me " by James W. Loewen.

        Not really challenging the statement, but I wonder where the line should be. Like it is easy to tell kids myths about the founding fathers and other people in history, and I suppose it does make for a good starting point for someone who does not have much context around anything, and still developing their brain. At some point people just want to hold on to those myths rather than learn the context or nuance of what actually happened.

        • @BallShapedMan
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          11 year ago

          Fair point. I’m no judge for what is right for others. I’m not even sure what I’ve decided is right for me is right. I do have a problem when the past has been glossed over the make terrible actions seem not so.

          I’m reading The Nutmeg’s Curse right now and I’m wondering how many Dutch people know their countrymen slaughtered a people and successfully committed genocide in the 1600s?

    • @BallShapedMan
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      51 year ago

      Here are the books, when I make notes I don’t keep track of where out of the book I got it and unless I’m reading business books I don’t keep which book I got it from since I’m just reading for me. But I tried to put them in order of where it mostly came from to least came from.

      Stamped from the Beginning by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

      How to be an Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

      So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

      When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Cullors, Asha Bandele

      Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

      How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith

      • @Buffaloaf
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        61 year ago

        Thank you! I like reading about history that I didn’t learn in school, and there’s a lot of it.

        • @BallShapedMan
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          41 year ago

          I’d love to hear what you think as you read through some of this. Only a few people I know have read all of these and I often wonder if the conclusions I’ve come to even make sense.

        • @InternetCitizen2
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          11 year ago

          You may also want to know about John Brown if you are interested in that time period.