I’m a history teacher and a big part of the problem is that history is not taught thoroughly anymore. Everything is taught through a social justice lens. It’s all about the struggle of certain groups and the overcoming obstacles. It’s important to teach those things, but it only gives you a small portion of the whole story.
I’ve found that I have learned way more about history by studying wars and military history than I ever did when getting my history degree. That stuff is so much more important, but we just ignore it because it is not fashionable in the current SJW culture.
FDR was a good president, he did some pretty questionable things to draw America into World War II. In my opinion if he hadn't done them the Nazis might have won and the world would be a horrible place. That doesn't make all the things he did right but maybe it made them necessary. That's a small slice of a pivotal piece of History that isn't taught in school.
Field Marshall Montgomery was not a great general he had an ego problem and he was a little bit of a peacock. He won battles because of superior intelligence not because of tactics or brilliance. He wasn't a bad commander and the British empire desperately needed a hero. So the choices that were made were probably the right ones. That's never been taught anywhere and no one really knew the full magnitude of that until the Blenchly Park stuff was declassified.
The greatest hero of World War II was a borderline autistic mathematician that happened to be gay and was persecuted for that. The only reason anybody knows his name is because of Science Fiction and a Hollywood movie.
I’m a history teacher and a big part of the problem is that history is not taught thoroughly anymore. Everything is taught through a social justice lens. It’s all about the struggle of certain groups and the overcoming obstacles. It’s important to teach those things, but it only gives you a small portion of the whole story.
I’ve found that I have learned way more about history by studying wars and military history than I ever did when getting my history degree. That stuff is so much more important, but we just ignore it because it is not fashionable in the current SJW culture.
If I could put a 10X on your up vote I would.
FDR was a good president, he did some pretty questionable things to draw America into World War II. In my opinion if he hadn't done them the Nazis might have won and the world would be a horrible place. That doesn't make all the things he did right but maybe it made them necessary. That's a small slice of a pivotal piece of History that isn't taught in school.
Field Marshall Montgomery was not a great general he had an ego problem and he was a little bit of a peacock. He won battles because of superior intelligence not because of tactics or brilliance. He wasn't a bad commander and the British empire desperately needed a hero. So the choices that were made were probably the right ones. That's never been taught anywhere and no one really knew the full magnitude of that until the Blenchly Park stuff was declassified.
The greatest hero of World War II was a borderline autistic mathematician that happened to be gay and was persecuted for that. The only reason anybody knows his name is because of Science Fiction and a Hollywood movie.
Alan Turing