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feyre-fireheart-cursebreaker:
haletheheretic:
haletheheretic:
haletheheretic:
So I was in a history major and then dropped out and one of the defining reasons was that historians really like to tell you that you cant add today’s biases into society.
So if were talking about slavery or how women were treated as literal property, we cant make a statement about how that was a bad thing because the times were different.
And as much as I hate to break the hearts of the white only history professors at that school, racism and sexism and homophobia have always been bad.
Like can you imagine being one of like 25 poc in a class of 300 taught by a white man, and that white man telling us that we cant put our “biases” on something like the slave trade?????????? Historical perspective my ass
The history field has a huge white people problem honestly its ridiculous. I know people say that history is just stuffy old white men and they’re absolutely right.
I think the only worse field is philosophy tbh
My history professor, an older white woman, said something that has stuck with me: “Yes, these thoughts feelings and actions were products of their time, but never forget that they are WRONG, and never allow that to temper your feelings towards the perpetrators of these injustices. Hate them. Rage at them in your papers, but study them, learn their tactics, so that you can recognize them in modern people, and stop that shit from ever happening again. Do not allow history to repeat itself.”
Funnily enough, no one ever said anything like that when I was doing my MA.
It was in Holocaust Studies.
feyre-fireheart-cursebreaker:
haletheheretic:
haletheheretic:
haletheheretic:
So I was in a history major and then dropped out and one of the defining reasons was that historians really like to tell you that you cant add today’s biases into society.
So if were talking about slavery or how women were treated as literal property, we cant make a statement about how that was a bad thing because the times were different.
And as much as I hate to break the hearts of the white only history professors at that school, racism and sexism and homophobia have always been bad.
Like can you imagine being one of like 25 poc in a class of 300 taught by a white man, and that white man telling us that we cant put our “biases” on something like the slave trade?????????? Historical perspective my ass
The history field has a huge white people problem honestly its ridiculous. I know people say that history is just stuffy old white men and they’re absolutely right.
I think the only worse field is philosophy tbh
My history professor, an older white woman, said something that has stuck with me: “Yes, these thoughts feelings and actions were products of their time, but never forget that they are WRONG, and never allow that to temper your feelings towards the perpetrators of these injustices. Hate them. Rage at them in your papers, but study them, learn their tactics, so that you can recognize them in modern people, and stop that shit from ever happening again. Do not allow history to repeat itself.”
Funnily enough, no one ever said anything like that when I was doing my MA.
It was in Holocaust Studies.
