'There's an immense gulf between the righteous, self-certain, swaggering American nationalist patriotism conservatives cherish—and the flailing, dysfunctional country that conservatives deliver to U.S. kids.' 📝 Conor P. Williams
In other words, there’s an immense gulf between the righteous, self-certain, swaggering American nationalist patriotism conservatives cherish—and the flailing, dysfunctional, all-but-delusional country that conservatives daily deliver to U.S. kids. Daily participation in American democracy currently requires an inordinate amount of make-believe.
There’s a common thread linking attempted censorship of the American past to our difficulties with improving the American present. It goes like this: nothing undermines the public’s civic faith quite as much as the realization that public institutions haven’t been telling the truth. That’s true when conservatives force schools to hide uncomfortable facts about American slavery, the causes of the Civil War, the genocidal component of, and so forth.
Rebuilding their faith in the American experiment will, indeed, require some changes on campus. Again, conservatives are right to recognize U.S. public education’s role in training citizens to be prepared to participate in a democracy. They are also right that this means fostering a shared understanding of the country we all inhabit, a U.S. narrative that links who we were to who we are now—and hints at the country we are on our way to becoming.
But that project is only possible if schools teach students the actual American story they are joining. Conservatives err by conceiving a too-narrow version of the country, a history concerned with defending the primacy and prestige of a handful of—mostly white, mostly male—characters.
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