[URL="http://March 20, 2013 Subscribe · Forward What Can Students Learn From The KKK? Popular knowledge suggests that hate is learned, like writing or reading. So who is the most effective teacher, and what happens when professors and teachers invite hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and the Westboro Baptist Church into the classroom? The answer, of course, isn’t simple. An engrossing piece from the Washington Times’ Tim Devaney describes the rise of this teaching tactic in some schools. Randy Blazak, a sociology professor at Portland State University in Oregon, told Devaney that he brings neo-Nazis into class because they humanize a hatred so extreme that students often consider it separate from humanity’s capacity -- like a relic of some past time that’s carried to this day by people who no longer understand it. PS.Why my URL Link doesn't work ,what I do wrong ?
those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. I'm not sure inviting such groups into a highschool (unless it's a very high level school) is a good place to bring such groups in. But in college.... SURE. The only time I am upset is when either side tries to push their agenda with who they bring it. Be it bringing in WBC or making students stomp on a picture of Jesus for a grade. If you do it to stimulate discussion and debate... that's one thing, flunking a student because they disagree with you is another.
I agree we should teach kids the true history of racism in this country and the KKK. They should know Woodrow Wilson loved them, and showed Pride of a Nation to visitors to the White House. That they were a terrorist arm for the Democratic party that Grant had to smash in the face after those very people broke the treaty that spared their lives originally. They should be taught that they are all cowards, and ran from other armed men, but were tough enough to kill and terrorize the defenseless. I am not sure we should try to exaggerate the extent it exist today by bringing in neo nazis for kids to play with. They should bring in 500 normals for every Neo Nazi, so kids dont get a skewed view of things.
Deciding what to teach children, and what to expose them to, can often be controversial. Unfortunately it seems, all too often the schools are just unnable to teach the students about anything that is in the slightest extent controversial. (what I resent is that often times they try to get around this by inserting subtle selective content in textbooks) Personally, I think they should bring in people from different sides of an issue at the same time. Each side gets to argue their case in front of the children, one immediately after the other. Atheists versus Christians versus muslims, for example, give them each 10 minutes. I would really like to see the abortion issue brought up in kindergarten classes. I can just imagine what pro-lifers could say: "Only 5 years ago, you could have been aborted. You were lucky that your mommy wanted you." liberal intellectuals just love race-extremists. There are only a couple hundred active Klansmen and neo-nazis in the entire country, yet liberals like to constantly point them out and use them as a strawman for all the supposed "racism" they claim is everywhere. You know, some of these people have rather reasonable arguments, yet journalists and academic sociologists like to single out the extreme ones who advocate violence. The klan and neo-nazis are like a lightning rod for social progressives to take all their anger and frustration out on. Many Americans forget that the klan was a very influential interest group in American politics many decades ago, in the same way that feminism is now. Perhaps those on the left are doing everything they can to distance themselves from the klan, since in the distant past the Democratic Party relied heavily on the klan for support.
