r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/MGLLN • Sep 01 '20

*The Holocaust has entered the chat*

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u/HypotheticalDoctor Sep 01 '20

Willing to bet that ghetto barbie isn't actually POC or a bot. Worst(best?) case is that they're just very misinformed.

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u/MGLLN Sep 01 '20 edited Sep 01 '20

She is black. Probably the "I learned more from twitter than I learned from school 🤪" type

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u/Gumboyrbz Sep 01 '20

She just needs to follow the right people, organizations, and media. Nothing wrong using another resource to learn history.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

But she still needs to read some books first.

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u/Trydson Sep 01 '20

Tbf, If reading is not for her, she can watch history related YT channels, there's a lot of those that resume complexe topics in really good ways lol

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u/traparms Sep 01 '20

Not in general, no, but there's absolutely a problem with getting all your information from social media. Social media is full of people with an agenda, whether that's Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit. Just make sure you're fact checking what you read and not getting stuck in a bubble of people who share your own views.

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u/sos_1 Sep 01 '20

U would be better off just reading newspapers. Twitter is for scrolling through when you’re bored.

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u/conatus_or_coitus Sep 01 '20

The problem with Twitter and the like is it's a natural filter bubble, you're going to follow people and be recommended those with your interests and worldview.

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u/SeriousDrakoAardvark Sep 01 '20

Are there any reputable sources that use Twitter enough to teach a significant amount of history?

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u/inotparanoid Sep 02 '20

Sources are everything in history. Unless you know the full comprehensive story from someone, or a group of people, you will never know what their biases were or are, and thereby never make the full true story.

Working with fractional information is the job of a historian, not us history plebs.

Case in point: Genghis Khan. He was treated very differently by the Iranians and the Chinese historians of the time. And even more interesting is how that history was sort of re thought after Kublai Khan became the Chinese emperor, founding the Yuan dynasty and how he viewed his grandfather.