The organization eliminated some items that appeared on a draft of the plan that circulated a year ago: lessons on Black Lives Matter and on reparations for the harms of slavery and racial discrimination, as well as suggested readings from left-leaning notables such as scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, an architect of critical race theory. The topics aren’t barred from the course, though, and teachers are free to choose reading assignments.
The College Board and several professors who worked on the Advanced Placement course said it was all strictly a matter of pedagogy, not politics. Others saw darker motives.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 1 year ago
I'm curious... Should the English owe the Irish and the Scottish reparations? Should the English demand reparations from the French for the Normans invading? How about reparations from Italy for invading England during the era of the Roman Empire? Should native americans pay reparations to the Polynesians for the genocide in the Americas when the proto-siberians came over the land bridge? Should the mongolians pay reparations to the whole of Eurasia? Should American blacks demand reparations from Africa for enslaving them and selling them to the Americans?
And for that matter, isn't opposition to slavery a western attitude that was spread through cultural imperialism? Maybe it was morally wrong to free the slaves, since it was imposing western values on people who were not from a western country? Perhaps the reparations we should be paying would be to correct the historical wrong of ending slavery, re-enslave the descendants of slaves?
Of course, I'm not serious about any of that, but it becomes quickly apparent that we have to be careful. These pseudo intellectuals are using arguments that start to fall apart if you start applying them to anything more than the one scenario they've agreed upon.
Lovstuhagen@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
I do think reparations on the immediate aftermath are good though