Historical blind spot. Achilles, man, you confound me. How is it that you have a handle like that but divorce yourself from history? How is that???? That frustrates me. I am not talking to pspr or Luke. I am talking to an intelligent human. How do you divorce yourself from history? I might learn something if you answer this post.
BS As if that hard to do You don't know jack shit about history, you just think you do. Because he knows history and you don't? Get tired of being eviscerated did you? Far more intelligent than you. He didn't, you Reverend Wright and Al Sharpton did. You have to want to learn something first, which I doubt. Reality would burst your bubble.
I heard they teach evolution also. Sounds like liberal indoctrination to me. Everyone knows God snapped his fingers to make man. In fact education in general is liberal. Education is an assault on conservatism and the delusions, I mean ignorance, I mean "Faith" upon which it is based. Things were so much better when the world was flat and God was very important.
There is excellent evidence for evolution. There is no evidence beyond wishful thinking that a fiat currency is compatible with Article I, section 10 of the Constitution.
I'm only guessing here, so go easy on me If you're referring to Indian genocide and slavery, sure. All truth is relevant. But when educators harp on the wrongs and ignore the rights, the subtext of their agenda shines through. Take slavery, for example. There is two sides to that argument. First, slavery was a fixture of civilization since the dawn of time. Pretty much the entire Asian, middle eastern, and European continent participated in slavery, for most of recorded history (Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Ottomans, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Germans, French, Pakistan, Thailand, Korean, Burmese etc). Indentured servitude and outright slavery was the norm in Africa, long before the Europeans ever set foot there. Even some North American Indians, Mayans and Incans practiced slavery - either enslaving rival tribes or their own people. Further, if the meme "racist whites exploited innocent blacks" couldn't get any more ridiculous, I read the population of indentured, white European slaves in North America was larger than the entire population of black, African slaves. The point here is context is totally ignored and distorted to underscore an established meme = white people bad, brown people good. To be clear, I'm not saying two wrongs make a right. Slavery is horrible, and for the life of me, I don't understand why the Bible and Christ never condemned it. Revolutionary America caught the tail-end of slavery as it was relegated to the dustbin of history, but there is no context in it's presentation. No mention that slavery was completely normal for thousands of years and every race both owned slaves, and were slaves, at one time or another. That's incredibly important for so many reasons, especially because its distorted presentation racially singles out Black Americans, makes them feel psychologically inferior, AS IF their people were the only ones that were slaves on the entire planet. Because that's how it's taught. No context. No mention of white slaves, no mention of slavery as the historical norm. But again, the agenda here is to sow racial division. White person bad, brown people stupid, gets everyone at each others throat, undermines the brilliance of our system of Government (guilt by association), and creates disenfranchisement and resentment amongst Black Americans, when America needs a unified nation, more than ever. As for native indians, again, they are cast as altruistic pacifists gunned down by the evil white man. First, the indians were inherently warlike before Columbus discovered America. Tribal warfare was the norm. Two, they enslaved each others tribes, as mentioned above. Three, Indians engaged in offensive war (territorial) against European settlers and the early American colonies. They weren't exactly spotless. Their only mistake was clinging to stone-age technology, while their adversaries were 3 ages ahead. Again, two wrongs don't make a right. Yes, eventually the colonies committed genocide against the Indians. But it's the context and emphasis. The white man is always cast as the devil incarnate ravenously guzzling the blood of innocents, who are always doe-eyed, bambi-type creatures who never hurt a fly. The underlying thrust to all this is to cast the Founders as racist, genocidal bigots which discredits their work (Bill of Rights, Constitution, American system of Government), via guilt by association. Baby out with the bath water. This revisionist history agenda and discreditation of the Founders is meant to create fertile intellectual ground educators can implant more "desirable" memes into Americas youth. Socialism. The UN. Guns are bad. Capitalism is bad. The Free Market is bad. Hardcore environmentalism is good. etc. Most teachers have no idea what they're doing. They're grossly overpaid idiots (haha). It's the DoE and the Federal Government who set curriculum and they are hardcore authoritarians, as we've seen with Obama's police-state legislation, and also under GW. These guys want to end our Constitutional Republic and institute some type of Federal Dictatorship. That's why one of their angles of attack is to indoctrinate the youth and slowly ease them into news form of Government, via revisionist history and predictive programming. Youtube Charlotte Iserbyt. She was a high-level DoE whistleblower who exposed the Department of Education mandate was to do just that. Lots of her videos which give a good background of the situation. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DDyDtYy2I0M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
"If education looks liberal, itâs because reality is liberal. So whatâs a conservative to do? Change and adaptation are antithetical to conservatism, so instead they buckle down and shove their fingers in their ears even harder. They denounce education, denounce learning, and try everything they can to undermine the threat to their understanding of the world. This usually is in the form of disuading people away from education, like Santorum just did, cutting funding to education, or even building up their own bubble. It is possible for a child to go from home school, to a private evangelical college, to the job place without ever having to come in contact with a new idea. Naturally, the results are disastrous, but since theyâve been brought up to believe that the conservative world view is unquestionably correct, the fault for failure must always rest with some foreign enemy or saboteur."
Hit the nail on the head. Problem is, the DoE has been at it for awhile. Maybe 4 decades? That spans 3 democrat, and 5 "conservative" administrations.
Take comfort in the fact the kids who are "barely literate in reading writing and science are also barely literate on the "social agenda" that is taught. HS kids are basically a bunch of self centered, immature weenies, Researchers, sociologists and psychologists argue the new age of adolescence is nearing 25- 26 years old.