alt Hacker NewsWhat history course would you expect to see this in? Courses don't tend to contain "by-the-ways" for things outside of the course material. Should it be against the rules to have a course specifically on the african slave trade? If somebody is teaching a course on the italian renaissance, should they be obligated to mention that great art was made in china too?
College history courses aren't "one-sided morality plays."
What a sleazy way to try to obfuscate lying by omission. Why are you suddenly so confused? "What history course would you expect to see this in?" What kind of question is that? A history course on native Americans - you can't seriously be saying that you can't imagine any kind of college course teaching it, can you?
> Courses don't tend to contain "by-the-ways" for things outside of the course material.
Was it not clear that I was complaining about the composition of those course materials?
> Should it be against the rules to have a course specifically on the african slave trade?
No. But when your college is silent on every atrocity committed by anyone other than whites, people will correctly see it as trafficking in propaganda, not truth. Nobody is convinced by your implications that it's all just a big coincidence that there are no courses specifically on Aztec imperialism, or Dahomey slave trading, or the Barbary and trans-Saharan slave trades (not because they ignore the Middle East, because they do have courses on Edward Said-style "orientalism" [1,2]), or problematizing the cultural revolution.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism
[2] https://www.coursicle.com/harvard/courses/TDM/174PO/