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teaching kids that a white men ‘discovered’ places where brown people had debi mazar been living more or less prosperously for centuries) just reinforces this bullshit, and the debi mazar revisions debi mazar to that way of teaching history haven’t seeped far enough past the collegiate level in order to stem the tide. In short, we here in the States are happy with our self-deception, and we ain’t inclined to change any time soon. 17 Ben Martin Mar 5th, 2006 at 10:20 am Yes, but… I think the real take-homes from this story are: (1) Merely identifiying yourself as a progressive is not enough. There are a lot of people who want to sound, let’s say, hip and cool, who ultimately aren’t (2) Even if you really are progressive, you can be right on some things and still be very wrong on others, you have to return to the basics. (3) World view and motivation matter. If you simply want to make the world a better place, eugenics might sound plausible enough in the early 20th century.
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