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Everything that’s happened the past few days shows why teaching history is so important. This entire week has been a best hits album of american racism, but bc many fail to understand its prior manifestations, people mistake regurgitated bigotry as if it appeared out of thin air.
When I was a high school teacher there were some resources that I found really helpful in addressing the ahistorical fallacies that shape our contemporary public & political discourse. I’ve shared some before but I’ll share them again here for anyone who might find them useful:
.@facinghistory “helps students learn about hatred and bigotry so they can stop them from happening in the future.”
facinghistory.org
facinghistory.org
