MY LITTLE SISTER’S HISTORY TEACHER IS MAKING THEM LIST THE “POSITIVE EFFECTS” OF IMPERIALISM??????
forcing students into the mental exercise of justifying/rationalizing genocide because of its supposed “positive effects” itself perpetuates genocide and indoctrinates them into supporting an imperial war machine.
my sister is @CeceWalsh3 btw <3
and to be clear, this is a public high school in one of the most "progressive" cities in the US — Cambridge, MA.
it's not just Republicans banning CRT that are revising history — racist, imperialist revisionism it is a key objective of the entire US education system.
I think you can get the lesson across with better phrasing though. Instead of "positive effects of imperialism", ask students to list "justifications made by imperialists" or something like that. I'm doing a college Latin American history class right now, and that's how we've been doing it - understand the point of view of the colonizers, but don't do apologia for them.