It worked for me back in the day. At the end of the year, my AP US History class voted Ronald Reagan the worst politician in American history because I got all of my friends to go along with me.
In Communist China students are not allowed to deviate from the teacher's indoctrination lesson and if they do they will be censored.
We probably outcompeted the neanderthals by being more willing to form large social groups than they were.
So, why are upright-walking runny apes everywhere? Because that actually makes for a horrifyingly efficient omnivorous predator. Why us specifically and not some other species from our genus? Cooperation.
I'm a wuss for horror so I just read the plot on Wikipedia and watched a breakdown of it. The concept still disturbed me quite a bit.
In most hunting and gathering cultures around today vegetable calories to meat calories is like 60/40, and vegetable calories are far more reliable than meat.
Just FYI: I was kicked out of class every year I was in high school. You're doing the right thing.
Also, ask the teacher for scientific evidence
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/17/878896381/ancient-bones-offer-clues-to-how-long-ago-humans-cared-for-the-vulnerable
It's bullshit and we've got hte paleolithic fossils to prove it.
Meanwhile, in American schools, we are taught the unbiased whole truth of the founding fathers
Lmao my mom said the same thing. Where do people pick up shit like this.
I kinda wanna be a teacher and do this, just so I have an excuse to put out communist literature.
If they complain, I just shrug and say, ‘well the Democrats are Marxists and in bed with the CPC, like you say. It’s only fair I put the complete works of Xi Jingping on display’.
It would be fun to turn in a report on The Turner Diaries. Though that would involve reading it, which would be... less fun.
My science teacher in high school in my home country was a Catholic who showed the class abortion videos.
rip. my "religious education" teacher was a hardcore christian who thought it was ridiculous that he had teach to any Asian religions (bc it's "not religion") and got the muslim kid kicked out of his classes for refusing to draw god. even that class full of 12 year olds knew (and tried to point out) why she couldn't. schools are wack sometimes.
My ap gov teacher was so trash. Forced us to watch Fox News every morning. Then I had to constantly combat his bullshit pro military rhetoric that he spewed in class. Like when he tried to explain how America was an isolationist country before WW1.
Yeah, human nature, the nature humans have. Humans like Nelson Mandela, my dad, Augusto Pinochet, Elon Musk, Jerry Fallwell, Angela Davis, the Pope. That one nature that they all share because they're humans. Seems like a valid concept to me.
Lol in AP US History my teacher told us that beatniks were “teenagers from the suburbs that wore ripped jeans and played bongos”. Also told us that the Vietnam War was bad because we couldn’t win it and that people were protesting it because it wasn’t a war we could win. Didn’t even mention any of our war crimes, geopolitics, etc. The College Board is straight state propaganda.
Man I sure wonder why people living under a system that promotes greed and exploitation are being greedy and exploitative. Must be human nature.
My Honors Gov teacher showed us the Zapruder footage on our first day.
Tangentially related, but one of my favorite news stories is that time a teacher in quebec showed his class the Luka Magnotta murder video because "the students were asking about it"
before we started cultivating wheat, humans were very cooperative. once you had wheat, you had people who didn't have to labor directly to provide themselves with food. then you get job specialization, landlords, and populations that were so large they required a permanent commitment to agriculture or else there'd be mass starvation, and well, look where that got us. in fact, the etymology of the word "greed" comes from the persian word "wheat." source for that last part: my ass.
