What happened and why?
Will it happen again?
A discussion for Social Studies and Civics classes, no other.
This topic is perfect fit for Cooperative Learning, a teaching style which develops five student groups to analyze, discuss and present one or more points of view.
Engaging students with each other, allowing them to interact with different points of view, encouraging supporting theories with facts are curriculum development points.
This is not a topic, actually no topic is worthy of a lecture approach.
Barack Obama responds.
https://twitter.com/barackobama/status/1479090410211393543?s=21
It's happening tomorrow!
"Here's the key part: This is no fringe view. A new poll says most Republicans feel the rioters were defending democracy; on crowdfunding pages, millions of dollars in donations have flowed to cover the rioters' legal fees."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/u-s-capitol-attack-anniversary-analysis-1.6303070
Here is a CBC video highlighting the January 6, 2021 event.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1850580547788/
Canadians, can you imagine this scene going unchallenged by police?
It wasn't just the U.S. Capitol that was vulnerable on Jan. 6, 2021. Armed protesters stood inside, and at the entrances of, several state legislatures, including the State Capitol in Lansing, Mich., shown here, after a rally supporting Trump.(Paul Sancya/The Associated Press)
Do you remember Kevin Vickers response to the armed assailant in Parliament?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/u-s-capitol-attack-anniversary-analysis-1.6303070
This TOO is former RCMP Mountie Kevin Vickers doing what Mounties do...in Ireland.
RACISM, IS THERE A DEMOGRAPHY?
The majority of racists in the study were male. "In 2019, police reported 1,946 criminal incidents in Canada that were motivated by hate, according to data from Statistics Canada. From 2010 to 2019, 23 percent of people accused of hate crimes were between the ages of 12 and 17, and 86 per cent were male."
Photo courtesy of Warren Kay CBC "Youth are sometimes reluctant to speak to their parents, teachers or experts about what they're seeing online, and they may only engage with people who have the same views — an echo chamber, Ahmed said. That's where the tool kit will come in, to help teachers address those problematic views." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-extremism-teachers-students-1.6276936 "It is likely that somebody of Mediterranean stock has darker hair or skin than a person from Scandinavia. But other characteristics to a category of people is unreasonable.
Photo credit Unsplash "People of [different] classes; political (the left versus the right), economic, (Labor versus management) or ethnic groups is the matrix for biased thinking and prejudice." Dr. Aaron T. Beck MD Prisoners of Hate
“Even this solemn anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol underscores the inability of the country's warring political tribes to set aside their loathing and inhabit a common reality for just one day.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/u-s-capitol-attack-anniversary-analysis-1.6303070
Great point Jackson. Whether it be this incident or politics or any social issue, it is the teacher's responsibility to guide students in researching then articulating their discovery and position. Dr. Barrie Bennett taught Cooperative Learning and I highlight the method numerous times in my novels.