Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools::undefined

    • isles@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Really? Seems like something they’d run with, as long as they got to pick the curricula and decide what the reputable sources are. You could continue to galvanize a base into believing they now DO have critical thinking skills.

      • TherouxSonfeir@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Well yes, even California is going to decide what to focus on. Which will be mostly politics I’d imagine. Neither one of them is going to focus on who the real problems are: rich people deciding what gets covered so they remain in power.

      • prole@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        It’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.

    • freeindv@monyet.cc
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      1 year ago

      No way would the GOP fight something that helps more people wake up to the reality that CNN is fake news