As a history teacher, I've met a few who would definitely beg to differ. They're mostly deluded armchair cosplayers or still licking boots from their time in the military.

If you study history intently and don't come to the conclusion that we must continually topple oppressors and promote communal welfare and accountability, you're doing it wrong.

Unfortunately not all e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_H%C3%B6cke

Eh, not necessarily. Here in the States, "conservative History teacher who's only there because he wants to be a football coach" is a very particular genre of guy. Bonus points if he's a military history nerd

Are they? The current secretary general of NATO is a history teacher and he was also the leader of the Dutch right wing liberal party. He was the prime minister of the Netherlands for 14 years and pushed the country full libtard.

I didn't put the pieces together until years later, but my 7th grade history teacher was literally a fascist who endorsed eugenics. Not disagreeing with your general point though.

I'd say mine were staunchly conservative. Not empire lovers, but very happy to be on the winning side and finding the battles themselves more interesting than the issues leading up to them and happy to swallow whatever convenient excuse aligns with their upbringing ("the communists were killing the intellectuals" (sometimes true) or "the communists were too divided to lead" (often true), etc.)

I have some childhood trauma from a right wing history teacher.

I was lucky enough to get Zinn as required reading when I was still a weird conservative child. History teachers can be great

I had an American history teacher in jr college that taught the civil war was about states rights and we had to buy his crappy right wing history book for class. It was entertaining but it was a bullshit class. I guess I’m lucky that my executive functioning disorder allows me to critically think hard AF. Got my transfer credit

Yeah, I have a history degree. That combined with good Critical Thinking Skills, and you end up standing in the middle of humanity screaming "WHY AREN'T YOU PEOPLE FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS? THEY TAUGHT US ABOUT THIS IN SCHOOL! DON'T YOU REMEMBER WHAT THIS LEADS TO?"

It's very frustrating.

Seems to be high school level are conservative and college professors are progressive.

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