But I too would like to get a look at the rest of this textbook. Two pages is not enough for me to develope a truly informed opinion. I'm see nothing here but a bunch of uninformed knee jerk reactions.
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It's so nice that our culture can reach this level of wealth without any slavery (except in prisons and in poor countries).It's because the society they lived in practiced it. Just like in Muslim countries they are taught that it's okay to beat women and kill gay men. When a society embraces it, it becomes common culture.
We no longer have that common culture. We are a free society and our laws keep it that way. Kids don't look around them and see slavery. They see freedom and our whole society eschews slavery. So specifically telling them slavery is bad isn't necessary to change behavior. Merely showing them the horrors of slavery and what was going on is enough to support their already established slaveless mores and culture.
If kids are smart enough to figure out that slavery is wrong, why did the institution of slavery survive for the majority of mankinds history?
Some people equate teaching the awful facts with saying "its bad". And so they dont even want to teach facts because that would be "indoctrination".It's because the society they lived in practiced it. Just like in Muslim countries they are taught that it's okay to beat women and kill gay men. When a society embraces it, it becomes common culture.
We no longer have that common culture. We are a free society and our laws keep it that way. Kids don't look around them and see slavery. They see freedom and our whole society eschews slavery. So specifically telling them slavery is bad isn't necessary to change behavior. Merely showing them the horrors of slavery and what was going on is enough to support their already established slaveless mores and culture.
Maybe it would be a nice gesture to inform the little tykes that some folks were so enamored by “our peculiar institution” that they could not envision living in a nation that had no slaves, so they tried to create one out of several states of the Union?Kids when taught properly are quite smart enough to spot that things like slavery, murder and robbery are indeed wrong, along with spotting the lies and corruption in leaders.
You may want to show a little more faith in them.
Then you are talking about totalitarian propagandists, not "communism". Did the Soviets use totalitarian propaganda? YES, emphatically, YES. But, that does not make all propaganda communist. Please be more careful in you use of words, it helps if you want to be taken seriously.
If kids are smart enough to figure out that slavery is wrong, why did the institution of slavery survive for the majority of mankinds history?
Some people equate teaching the awful facts with saying "its bad". And so they dont even want to teach facts because that would be "indoctrination".
Maybe it would be a nice gesture to inform the little tykes that some folks were so enamored by “our peculiar institution” that they could not envision living in a nation that had no slaves, so they tried to create one out of several states of the Union?
Given the price of textbooks these days, $500 isn't nearly as much a markup you'd think.
That's because the law student has to spend his own money and not tax payer money.Are you saying 1 text book in the US on average costs $500? That's outrageous.
A Law student here might spend $165 on a single text book and possibly 500+ per semester but not $500 on a single book.
Are you saying 1 text book in the US on average costs $500? That's outrageous.
A Law student here might spend $165 on a single text book and possibly 500+ per semester but not $500 on a single book.
Well maybe not on average. On average text books cost anywhet from about $50-$300. I don't know why this one is so much. Maybe cause the taxpayers are paying? It's a bit outrageous.
Is or is not North Korea communist?
Does or does not NK feed its people propaganda?
I would say yes and yes. So being fed propaganda goes along with communism.
I wasn't saying Communism was the only place where propaganda exists because certainly a cult would be another place I was simply giving an example of a country that feeds it's population propaganda. Obviously North Korea is an extreme but any country can begin to slip into this way of behavior, if it's population is not educated and become sheepels. Reading, writing ,mathematics and critical thought and discussion are key to the population being clued in enough to spot and stop such spoon feeding. To understand their constitution and to be able to understand and protest laws that will ultimately strip them of their rights for more and more government control.
A population that is told 'this is bad and this is good because I say so' has no critical thinking skills.
I really don't care about NK. That's not the point. The point is that some fool equated propaganda as "communism". Propaganda is not a form of communism. Propaganda is used by all sorts of people, not just communists.
Are you saying 1 text book in the US on average costs $500? That's outrageous.
A Law student here might spend $165 on a single text book and possibly 500+ per semester but not $500 on a single book.
$500 is a bit steep -- but only a bit. I've seen high school textbooks in the $200-$300 range...
Is any of that untrue? Based upon what was happening to the they were forced to do so. When they realized what was happening they did send their slaves cause they were forced to leave.
It's not sympathetic to describe actual events.
The fact so many here are arguing about this shows you all think it's fine to dumb down kids.
The issue here is that the entirety of the introduction to the civil war and succession chapter is from the viewpoint of the slave owner. This fosters sympathy in the reader. Notably absent is anything from the viewpoint of the enslaved. The reader is left to extrapolate or create their own sympathy for those individuals.
You can twist a lot of heartstrings and pervert a lot of minds without saying anything untrue.
Why not talk about the slaves who were literally forced into the same migration that the slaver women took by choice? This question could be better answered with some excerpts from later in the chapter, once they finally get around to discussing the experience of the enslaved.