Spurven Ten Sing wrote:As a trained historian, allow me to clarify something to the rubes like jskains.
Historians have developed methods to apply various theoretical approaches to the past. Each theory, or perspective, attempts to best explain all available evidence on a meta or micro scale. As a natural outgrowth of this, scholars have discovered that there existed many unexamined aspects of the human story. Gender, race, ethnicity, religion, economic identity, and sexual orientation are critical facets that must be addressed in constructing a theoretical framework.
It is not only expected, and valuable for analysis, it is demanded. Many a graduate student has had his thesis rejected and ripped apart for ignoring an aspect as fundamental as gender or sexual orientation. Every one of these must be addressed in any serious survey or monograph.
What's more, these expectations are decades old. That California wishes to include the relatively (30 years) new study of sexual identity in their curriculum is absolutely, positively in line with main stream academic approaches to history. In fact, it is laughable to leave it out.
So, Mr. Skains, you are speaking out of opaque, brittle, bigoted ignorance. You may wish to educate yourself and learn the difference between solid academic theory and "indoctrination". PC has nothing to do with it, moron.
Oh-ho, a trained historian. Care to elaborate, Leif Cluelesson?
Spurven Ten Sing wrote:As a trained historian, allow me to clarify something to the rubes like jskains.
Historians have developed methods to apply various theoretical approaches to the past. Each theory, or perspective, attempts to best explain all available evidence on a meta or micro scale. As a natural outgrowth of this, scholars have discovered that there existed many unexamined aspects of the human story. Gender, race, ethnicity, religion, economic identity, and sexual orientation are critical facets that must be addressed in constructing a theoretical framework.
It is not only expected, and valuable for analysis, it is demanded. Many a graduate student has had his thesis rejected and ripped apart for ignoring an aspect as fundamental as gender or sexual orientation. Every one of these must be addressed in any serious survey or monograph.
What's more, these expectations are decades old. That California wishes to include the relatively (30 years) new study of sexual identity in their curriculum is absolutely, positively in line with main stream academic approaches to history. In fact, it is laughable to leave it out.
So, Mr. Skains, you are speaking out of opaque, brittle, bigoted ignorance. You may wish to educate yourself and learn the difference between solid academic theory and "indoctrination". PC has nothing to do with it, moron.
Oh-ho, a trained historian. Care to elaborate, Leif Cluelesson?