#keep learning
“Not all men-” You’re right. None of my boy mutuals would do this.
from observations, I feel like many people took “history books are full of propaganda” and ran with it and instead of more deeply investigating history from varying sources, they just don’t know jack shit about history
I need everyone that has ever talked about “overthrowing capitalism” to understand that
- people have tried to create a peaceful, oppression-free society before, but it turns out that’s really hard.
- The reasons it’s really hard are almost entirely practical and many of them are the boring and logistical sort of practical.
- Change happens incrementally. Revolutions and revolts…they happen when people hit the breaking point. But the idea that they throw out an old society completely and create a new one from scratch is itself propaganda. They don’t always result in a better society. They always result in a deeply flawed society. Also people die. Very often the most powerful people don’t die, and sometimes they end up powerful in the new society.
also there are things you didn’t learn about in history class that nobody was trying to hide from you
(there are definitely things some people sometimes ARE trying to hide from you, and that was even more true in the pre-Internet days when it was easier. I’m not saying it never happens. but it’s not always the reason)
if your teacher is trying to cover all of…I don’t know, Modern European History™, they might not have time- between wars and economic crises that impacted the fate of nations -to get into Virginia Woolf’s gay love letters. that doesn’t mean they’re ~hiding her as part of a homophobic conspiracy~. it just means they have a lot to cram into like six months to give teenagers some vague understanding of the events that shaped our society
I see a lot of people on here like “why didn’t I learn about [historical figure who is important in the history of an oppressed group but didn’t have a huge impact on the Big Picture of the world] in school?” and other people responding “you know why…” and like
sometimes. but definitely not always
people do their PhDs on getting into the nitty gritty of this stuff, even undergraduates are asked to write about specifics in papers. high school is meant to be a foundational level, you were learning the foundation.if your learning stopped in high school (and I’m not even talking about university here, you can learn outside of uni and college) then things weren’t hidden from you, you just weren’t looking.
for some things anyways, suppression definitely happens, but if you’re leaving a comment on a public widely shared post saying ‘why didn’t we learn about this in high school’ then it’s not a suppression conspiracy anymore, some scholar did the work and it’s freely available and being relayed to you.
it’s just likely a specific topic that was not on that foundational level yet, thus not learned in high school.
i’m proud of all of u out there who were raised in abusive and manipulative households who didn’t realize they were displaying the same red flags as the people who raised them because they don’t know anything beyond it and who are actively trying to be better. the people who don’t know how to love people properly because the “love” they got growing up came with passive aggressive, guilt-tripping strings attached. the ones who feel guilt deep in their heart for the things they never meant to do to others, but didn’t even realize they were doing. it’s an uphill battle to recover from being a victim of abuse, especially seeing those traits that you despise so much in yourself, and try to be the best person you can be. i’m proud of all of u who are trying and i know u are capable of being the person you want to be
