A lot of people who I think ought to know better are posting approvingly about this new California media literacy education law. California schools spread innumerable really dangerous lies about history and politics. Why would anyone think they're willing or able to teach anyone to effectively criticize propaganda?
Don't take my word for it. Here's a convincing 2019 study on California public schools' false teachings on the state's genocidal history, which
"... shows that violence is only minimally addressed in California fourth-grade history textbook content on the topic of Spanish colonization. Although generally underrepresented throughout the text, California Indian people are disproportionately over-represented as perpetrators of violence in the early colonization of California, a framing that is drastically out of alignment with the historical record as it is agreed upon by historians."
This matches my own experience in California public schools. They didn't teach one true thing about the genocidal history of the state's indigenous people and according to the study they still don't. Before they purport to teach kids to spot lies they ought to stop lying.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/016146811912100805
https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2023/11/fake-news-california-school/
#California #FakeNews #MediaLiteracy #Genocide #MissionIndians #CaliforniaIndians #CaliforniaIndigenous #Indigenous
