And therein lay many of the critiques which miss the mark by painting with either a broad brush, or a wrong on.There were many bad people in the Church over the last 2000 years, many in positions of authority. Also, many historian fail to distinguish between the institutional Church and the people in it.
To do so is not to criticize. It is to look dispassionately at a statement, and to be able to look at the matter from more than one position (for example, not looking at the matter only from your own experience, and/or being Catholic). Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.Learn to think critically
You’d be wrong. There is no effort in higher ed to hide America’s racist history. If anything, it’s over-emphasized in some ways.I bet they don’t
Is there any one person that can speak for the whole of higher ed?You’d be wrong. There is no effort in higher ed to hide America’s racist history. If anything, it’s over-emphasized in some ways.
In Brazil’s case? Slavery and the formation of a hierarchical caste system (the castas) based on the degree of non-European ancestry. In the US, the “one drop rule” was adopted so racial division was more clear cut between white and black.If the Catholic church was so terribly racist, why do countries like Paraguay, Brazil, and Mexico, predominantly Catholic countries, have such large mixed race populations?
Most universities are dominated by liberals in the humanities. Liberals are more than willing to acknowledge American racism throughout history.Is there any one person that can speak for the whole of higher ed?
Neither Catholic nor Protestant imperialism is going to win any prizes regarding treatment of native peoples. Empires on both sides of the religious divide cruelly exploited these peoples.it is true, that for a long time Spain did hold an iron grip on the Americas, but it was actually the Protestants from England and the Netherlands, that treated American Indians amongst other people as lesser people, seriously when you get the chance, read Columbus’s diary, he had a very high opinion of American Indians. Although a lot of people don’t like to admit this, it was actually the Catholic church that originally led the Abolitionist Movement.
Amen to that. The USA has a huge amount of racism throughout its history, some of which was largely hidden away or not talked about until recently. President Woodrow Wilson makes Trump look like MLK.There is no effort in higher ed to hide America’s racist history. If anything, it’s over-emphasized in some ways.
Really? I have two degrees in history and never found a course to be one sided. The emphasis when I was at university was on teaching students how to think, not what to think. When one read out an essay one’s tutor he was hoping to hear something that displayed some flair of originality. Possibly he wouldn’t agree with it, but then you’d spend the next hour pulling it apart, trading opinions, and filling in gaps in knowledge. I remember one week my tutor had set Time on the Cross as reading for an essay. He completely disagreed with pretty much everything that Fogel and Engerman had to say, but he thought it was important to know what they said and didn’t mind taking the risk that some of his students might actually agree with them.you are better off reading history on your own. It will be mostly one sided when you take courses.
Check out the book if you are interested. I just looked it up online and the authors unsurprisingly mention the Democratic Party over and over. Did you really think that two reputable scholars had managed to write a history of the United States that failed to mention the Democratic Party?Do they mention there was a political party in the United States that defended slavery as a “positive good” and remained in control of the former Confederate States and introduced segregation and other forms of legal discrimination?
I bet they don’t.
Are you saying students are taught it was the Democrats that supported slavery, ant the Republicans who opposed it? Do they teach that Segregation was enacted in “Yellow Dog” Democrat states? Do they talk about the KKK as the enforcement wing of the Democrat Party? Do they identify Bull Connors, Orvil Faubus and other segregationists as Democrats?You’d be wrong. There is no effort in higher ed to hide America’s racist history. If anything, it’s over-emphasized in some ways.
I talk about that in my high school US history class. When I was in college, we learned about the South, slavery and the fact that the South was a one-party state under Democrats. And yes, we were taught that Lincoln was a Republican.Are you saying students are taught it was the Democrats that supported slavery, ant the Republicans who opposed it? Do they teach that Segregation was enacted in “Yellow Dog” Democrat states? Do they talk about the KKK as the enforcement wing of the Democrat Party? Do they identify Bull Connors, Orvil Faubus and other segregationists as Democrats?
And do you emphasize they created the mess we’re in now? Do you tell them how the KKK ruled Louisiana – and who stopped them?I talk about that in my high school US history class. When I was in college, we learned about the South, slavery and the fact that the South was a one-party state under Democrats.
What mess are you talking about?And do you emphasize they created the mess we’re in now?
We don’t get into details on state level KKK activities. I only have these students from the mid-August to Christmas break, so it has to be a quick survey of all US history from the 1600s to 2011. But we do cover Reconstruction and the Compromise of 1877 and the devastating consequences that had on African Americans.Do you tell them how the KKK ruled Louisiana – and who stopped them?