{"id":61426,"date":"2022-01-11T19:06:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61426"},"modified":"2022-01-11T19:06:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:06:01","slug":"othering-unvaccinated-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61426","title":{"rendered":"Othering Unvaccinated Persons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Othering Unvaccinated Persons<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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In my teaching, I prepare undergraduate students to become high school history teachers. In one course, teacher candidates prepare and deliver mock lessons. Their peers play the role of high school students, and I observe and give feedback following these practice lessons. Whether coincidence or a reflection of the times, this fall a good number of mock lessons covered the rise of totalitarianism. In one excellent lesson, a teacher candidate had his students examine the contexts that gave rise to totalitarianism. He accompanied this lesson with an excerpt from a world history\u00a0textbook<\/a>\u00a0listing characteristics of totalitarianism.<\/p>\n

This lesson hit on the true purpose for including totalitarianism in high school curricula. That purpose is not to honor the likes of Hitler, Stalin, or Mussolini. Nor is that purpose to provide the methods of totalitarianism as an instructional manual to follow. Rather, the purpose of teaching on totalitarianism is to deliver a warning: heed well the conditions that yielded totalitarianism, so you can recognize and avoid them. As I observed this teacher candidate\u2019s lesson, I could not help but think about that purpose in the context of our present time.<\/p>\n

One passage from the lesson\u2019s textbook concerned me the most: \u201cTotalitarian leaders often create \u2018enemies of the state\u2019 to blame for things that go wrong. Frequently these enemies are members of religious or ethnic groups. Often these groups are easily identified and are subjected to campaigns of terror and violence. They may be forced to live in certain areas or are subjected to rules that apply only to them\u201d (pg. 876).<\/p>\n

Creating an enemy of the state requires\u00a0othering<\/a>: a process of\u00a0dehumanizing<\/a>\u00a0through marginalizing a group of humans as something different, less than, and other. Such othered groups become an easy target to scapegoat, unfairly bearing the blame for a society\u2019s ills.<\/p>\n

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