I’m so tired of biased sources.
I was three weeks deep into a presentation on the split between the now Roman Catholic Church and The Eastern Orthodox Church when my professor informed me that one of my primary sources was, in fact, an Orthodox apologist and therefore good for insight but not fact. Every Holiday visit to my grandparent’s house includes FOX news blaring in the background. Even news pieces from sources I generally agree with, even when we are seeing eye-to-eye on an issue, make me want to scream because their opinions are so obnoxiously obvious in their attempts to quash all possible opposition. I feel like I can’t make my mind up about anything if both sides are going to scream totally opposite positions and information at me about the same thing. Do I support Palestine? Is Planned Parenthood butchering babies? Do all lives matter? What about Hillary Clinton’s emails? God, I don’t know.
You’d think history wouldn’t fall prey to these same pitfalls- at least, you’d hope. One of the primary purposes from history is to learn our mistakes so as to not make them again. We have to look at the bad, in its full ugliness, even when we don’t want to- see how and why it happened and attempt to safeguard against it.
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