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   Alexander Karn (xankarn@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 04:00:04 JST Alexander Karn

   A #democracy must practice deliberation to survive.

   W/ respect to #history education, this means we must welcome differing perspectives, engage with principled disagreement, and accept that history is controversial.

   Since Jan 20, Trump has made clear he expects a monopoly over historical truth. He asserts that his facts and narratives are objective, while everything that troubles these is ideological warfare waged by a lunatic fringe.

   History is participatory, or it is propaganda.

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     Alexander Karn (xankarn@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 04:00:19 JST Alexander Karn

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     Perhaps it’s time we lunatics admit our agenda.

     What I aim to smuggle into history—my revisionist agenda as it were—is democratic pluralism.

     This means there should be more than one perspective/voice when it comes to the production of historical knowledge.

     It also means that facts and narratives should be seen as doing ideological work, advancing specific concepts of national identity, and aiding or frustrating the struggle for justice.

     It means using the past to promote critical thinking.