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History and Mondo Dolls : Comments
By Valerie Yule, published 20/8/2015Children and adolescents often complain that history is boring. It is not. It teaches us about our present as well as our past. But it is taught so that it is boring.
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You claim that ingroups want to keep outgroups in ignorance by making sure the outgroups don't question the ingroup's position.
Then you make the bizarre claim that I've 'swallowed' their line. How??
I questioned the numerical makeup of the Mondo figures, to question the subliminal ways that history conditions us to value war over peace, royalty over common folk, warriors over workers, men over women - i.e. the ingroup's historical narrative.
By your own intimidatory response to me, one that is designed to mildly rebuke what you declare to be my perceived 'ignorance' and 'gullibility', YOU are the one who is not only swallowing the ingroup's line, but proactively practising it.
jayb
Judging by your earlier posts on this thread, you appear to have a sycophantic preoccupation with royalty, the military and the divine right of powerful men to procreate with as many wives and mistresses as time allows.
So, of course, you need to psychobabble me as some awfully unhappy person simply because I challenged the vicarious fantasies of your particular 'ingroup'.