You can always just be wilfully evil too, but I guess a certain amount of lying comes with that
I dislike strawmans so this argument always irks me.
Teachers are left leaning because people with left leaning predilections tend to choose teaching as a career. There are multiple models to explain this but the most relevant is the idea that lefties tend to order their moral hierarchy “outward in” (World > Society > community > family > self) and righies tend to reverse that order (self > family > community > society > world)
The type of person that morally prioritizes the broader world & society will be more inclined to learn about it and also to teach it.
The realization that US history requirements for education subtlely strips the political situation from the history felt like a revelation
In ~10th grade public school a buddy told me “You know this all like complete BS right? Like this is not what happened, it’s just a propaganda version of events” and I thought he was just a conspiracy nut.
But uuuuuuuh nope! Public school US history curriculum is basically just propaganda.
Some of them enjoy cruelty, those go further right as they learn
I dunno man, I have a friend with a bachelor’s in history. He’s full maga. Some people just like authoritarians…
they assume they are the in group… lol
Or they’re in trouble somehow and hope the in group will protect them
There’s a lot of history buffs that just hard believe in the great man threory. And god damn do they wanna lick some geeat man boots.
You hear that Anarchists? The Marxists are calling you liars! /s
I’m a self-identified anarchist and marxist. His theories are foundational, but he’s been dead 143 years so unless you’re some fundamentalist weirdo you’re adapting his theories, not wielding them like scripture.
Don’t worry we’re used to doing all the work and getting shot in the back.
Unironically, yes.
Source: Student of History.
Björn Höcke, one of the most insane freaks in the german AFD party is a history teacher …
Sooo… the only choices are between being an idolator of Beardy McDeadguys or being a liar?
What’s Marxism?
Appreciation for Duck Soup. Groucho was brilliant.






