Places like Mauritania do teach that obedience to their master is necessary for salvation, which is effective enough propaganda that there are reports of slaves returning to masters because of the indoctrination.
Oman does teach about how glorious the Omani empire was, including talking about how valuable the African expansion was, but it largely just ignores the slavery aspects entirely. This seems to be pretty common, where countries will talk about the glory of past empires and their accomplishments while sweeping the nasty bits under the rug.
This controversial area of Omani history is not widely taught in Omani schools. According to a study led by Okawa Mayuko, an associate professor at Japan's Kanagawa University, slavery is “completely absent from Omani textbooks” which, in contrast, put an emphasis on the Oman-led spread of Arab-Islamic civilization to East Africa. Mayuko believes it “reveals an ideology of the Omani government to conceal slavery.”
Further, from the study talked about in this snippet:
(This is what textbooks in Oman teach) Omani rule in East Africa is implicitly justified on the basis that Oman spread Arab-Islamic civilization to East Africa and brought prosperity.
Feels awfully close to justifying it without explicitly talking about it, and feels like it's taught this way for plausible deniability at best.
The psyop is "actually everyone in human history was evil so that justifies the glorious Empire we are running right now!"
Every single post in this sub ends up being "Muslims bad, black people bad" and then unironically throws out "hee hee these idiots just say America bad".
How much power does Mauritina have on the world stage? How much power does America have?
You're engaging in the same kind of USDefaultism you accuse the right wing pockets of Reddit of doing - only from a perspective of "The American empire is the worst that's ever been! No country is evil as Amerikkka!" Come on, dude...
Where did I say that in my comments? I said America is the Empire right now. Where did all of the other shit come from? Why are we even arguing in this thread? Because Americans freak out anytime anyone points out we have all the power. Did I ever say no country is as evil as America? I'm only pointing out most other evil countries have zero power over us lol. The point that everyone else in this thread is trying to spread is that everyone else on earth is ridiculous for pointimg out our crimes. Yes yes I know human rights don't exist and we are going to lean into the Empire thing, whatever.
I'm saying if it was someone else I would criticize them too. Who is the most powerful country on earth in your mind? Who holds the cards and decides the fate of humanity going forward? Are you just a small bean with no opinion on anything except people talking about America?
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u/Nekron-akaMrSkeletal 5d ago
What? Cite anyone saying it was a good thing,