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As a history teacher, I’ve met a few who would definitely beg to differ. They’re mostly deluded armchair cosplayers or still licking boots from their time in the military.
If you study history intently and don’t come to the conclusion that we must continually topple oppressors and promote communal welfare and accountability, you’re doing it wrong.
Thank you for all that you do, seriously.
Much appreciated, here, friend. I have tried other jobs/careers and, honestly, I couldn’t see myself anywhere else (at least for a while). Definitely a labor of love.
Yeah, I have a history degree. That combined with good Critical Thinking Skills, and you end up standing in the middle of humanity screaming “WHY AREN’T YOU PEOPLE FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS? THEY TAUGHT US ABOUT THIS IN SCHOOL! DON’T YOU REMEMBER WHAT THIS LEADS TO?”
It’s very frustrating.
Eh, not necessarily. Here in the States, “conservative History teacher who’s only there because he wants to be a football coach” is a very particular genre of guy. Bonus points if he’s a military history nerd
I was lucky enough to get Zinn as required reading when I was still a weird conservative child. History teachers can be great
Are they? The current secretary general of NATO is a history teacher and he was also the leader of the Dutch right wing liberal party. He was the prime minister of the Netherlands for 14 years and pushed the country full libtard.
Some people just want to watch the world burn
Remember that most Americans don’t use the word Liberal like we do - we mean liberal in terms of selling everything off to corporations that will rob us blind while they man liberal as in socially liberal.
Which as an aside goes back to the 1800s more specifically Southern slavers using the term liberal as short hand for basically everyone who wasn’t a slaver. This is a rather old dialect difference between American English and British English.
Also as an aside, John Brown did nothing wrong and Sherman didn’t go far enough.
The classic socially liberal (Voltaire and shit) and the corpo lib aren’t always mutually exclusive. Like a lib can be for gay rights and for laissez-faire free markets. And not every social liberal is a progressive. Like many social libs are pro gay rights because the progressives fought for those rights and made that socially acceptable to be for gay rights. But Trans rights is for them a step too far. So those libs are still right of center.
While such a state does occur in practice for a period of time, your last sentence shows where it inevitably ends up.
Unfortunately not all e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Björn_Höcke
He’s a perfect example of someone who is really into history for the wrong reasons. History should not be glorified, it should be used to reflect what is happening in the present.
*Bernd
But what if I was the fuhrer?
That’s how the Caesar in fallout new vegas came to be, isn’t it? He was the only one who cared about history and understood the basic concept that history tends to repeat itself so he filled the role before anyone else could.
Yeah, but Edward Sallow deserves that INT 4 in his SPECIAL score.
The mole rat at Quarry Junction has a higher INT score BTW.
I’d say mine were staunchly conservative. Not empire lovers, but very happy to be on the winning side and finding the battles themselves more interesting than the issues leading up to them and happy to swallow whatever convenient excuse aligns with their upbringing (“the communists were killing the intellectuals” (sometimes true) or “the communists were too divided to lead” (often true), etc.)
Seems to be high school level are conservative and college professors are progressive.
American k-12 has been basically daycare for a long time. With various activities labeled as education. Not the faults of the teachers.
As the meme says, the college professors studied history.
