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Originally Posted by MargaretR
Governments edit history in schools to influence social policy
oops - I may get moved to Anything Goes again  |
But schools no longer teach history, do they? 1066...Magna Carta...Glorious Revolution....Forget it. Kids spend 12 years doing something called empathy which involved pretending to be an 18th century jamaican slave, a 19th century domestic servant or a 20th century anti-aparteid prison mate of that old rogue, Mandela. They may get a bit of the evils of Hitler chucked in but nowt about those of Stalin or Mao.
As for Peterloo, can you imagine a similar meeting today? It would be a hotch-potch of latex dressed gay rights campaigners, bearded mullahs calling for holy war on british troops in Afganistan, conspiracy theorists demanding the government tell the truth about UFOs over Ossy and maybe the odd loony leftie like Mancie urging the workers of the world to unite. Only one answer to that lot - send in the cavalry and take no prisoners.