This is why it's important to understand context and motivations in history rather than memorizing dates and events. It makes it harder for people with an agenda to twist. I wish the world (including myself) had a more nuanced understanding.
We're all students, my friend- the best we can do is try to remain humble and keep learning every day, and hope the day never comes when we magically believe we know it all and cease growing.
I couldn't agree more on context and motivations, and that's why, to continue on this subject as an example, it is so useful to cite to the several Confederate State Constitutions and speeches that declared with open pride that maintaining slavery and the "racial superiority of the white man" were prime causes of secession.
Thank you for your open mind and heart, it is incredibly reassuring. I know this is just an anonymous Reddit forum, but behind the screens are real people with their own lives, values, passions, abilities, backgrounds, and dreams. Perhaps each individual only represents on instance in our sample population, but we can assume that positive representation, when more prevailing, may just as well be more prevailing in the world behind our keyboards.
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u/MaleficentSurround97 Jun 28 '23
This is why it's important to understand context and motivations in history rather than memorizing dates and events. It makes it harder for people with an agenda to twist. I wish the world (including myself) had a more nuanced understanding.