Asking the Right Questions at the Right Time
As part of a unit of fascism and totalitarianism, I’ve been teaching my students about propaganda this week and last. I started off with a PowerPoint presentation that I’d made shortly after the Iraq invasion was undertaken, in favor of the war in Iraq. I had the kids identify some of the techniques of propaganda I’d used: Assertions, name-calling, card-stacking, glittering generalities, and so on. Then, by way of review, I later presented another PowerPoint, this time ranting that the US get its troops out of Iraq.
And one of my students, a bright kid, and a conservative, who loves history and politics and is always asking questions (the best kind of students always ask the best questions) said after I was finished, “The people who want the US out never ask what happens after we leave.”
I wish that someone with that kind of foresight had been […]
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