Comment on Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools
prole@sh.itjust.works 11 months agoIt’s a tough one, because there is (at least as of this moment) still such a thing as objective truth. Obviously if they’re just teaching propaganda then yeah it’s bullshit. But if a person is actually given the tools to help them find that objective truth, they will use those tools themselves, and evaluate a source themselves.
A course like this isn’t (or shouldn’t be at least), “these are the right facts, these are the wrong facts,” it’s about teaching a person how to determine that for themselves. And once they do that, you lose control.
isles@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh absolutely, I just think there’s a difference between an implemented “Critical Thinking” course and an ideal one. But it’s easy for people to call both the same thing.
prole@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
That’s why we need to do everything we can to make sure children in this country learn it, even if that means putting it into a movie about Barbie. Frankly, I couldn’t care less about claims of indoctrination. On the contrary, this is an attempt to de-indoctrinate these kids and give them the tools to do it to themselves and their peers.