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2011-12-19 Britain

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-12-19 02:24|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Knowledge of the useful elements of history tends to immunize a student against brainwashing.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-12-19 04:21|| 2011-12-19 04:21|| Front Page Top

#2 All most of 'em want to know is "when does the looting start up again..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2011-12-19 06:35|| 2011-12-19 06:35|| Front Page Top

#3 It's no better over here. Our public high schools make sure to tell kids about Hitler's atrocities 100 times before they graduate (which is a good thing) but none of the students have heard of Stalin even once.

This is purposeful. It's an attempt by the teachers' unions, leftist organizations that they are, to indoctrinate students to believe that evil only comes from right or centrist politics and never from the left.

Don't believe me? Check it out. Take a look at a high school history textbook some time. Look at a syllabus. Our taxpayer funded public schools do NOT in the main teach about the communist holocausts.

Posted by no mo uro 2011-12-19 08:08|| 2011-12-19 08:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't forget their painting of the Nazi's as 'right wing' when they weren't. That the right was responsible for slavery and the left spearheaded the civil rights movement. The KKK was a right wing organization. Revisionist history.

And it was that way even back when I was in high school in the 70's.

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-12-19 10:18|| 2011-12-19 10:18|| Front Page Top

#5 "In other words, stop thinking of the Democratic Party as merely a political party, because its much more than that. Were not just the party of slavery, segregation, secularism, and sedition. Not just the party of Aaron Burr, Boss Tweed, Richard J. Croker, Bull Connor, Chris Dodd, Richard Daley, Bill Ayers, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and Emperor Barack Hussein Obama II. Not just the party of Kendall Agent 202 Myers, the State Department official recruited as a Cuban spy along with his wife during the Carter administration. Rather, think of the Democratic Party as what it really is: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party."

Posted by newc 2011-12-19 10:30|| 2011-12-19 10:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Authoritarian governments don't want you to know anything.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-12-19 11:47|| 2011-12-19 11:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Our public high schools make sure to tell kids about Hitler's atrocities 100 times before they graduate (which is a good thing) but none of the students have heard of Stalin even once.

Stalin gave the communists a bad name. So now they call themselves Democrats.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-12-19 12:01|| 2011-12-19 12:01|| Front Page Top

#8 This is why I write historical fiction - strong emphasis on the historical, along with all the research that implies - especially reading original material; letters, memoirs and first-hand reports. We have to know our history, where we came from, who and what our ancestors were, what an amazing concept that the American experiment was. Yes, there were shadows on that bright sunny aspect- there are shadows in anyone elses' national history too - but there was amazing courage, optimism, creativity. We have to know our history, otherwise we are floating in a kind of cultural sensory-deprivation tank. I'm coming around to believe that is what the edu-cultural pooh-bahs actually want: a large, ignorant mob, easily led.
That being said - can I bleg Rantburgundians for some Christmas gift potential attention to my books? I have six out there now, the most recent two came out this year, touching on interesting times in the Republic of Texas ... which, believe me, was more than just the Alamo.
(and if anyone is getting a Kindle ... all six are available in Kindle editions...)

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2011-12-19 14:04|| http://celiahayes.com 2011-12-19 14:04|| Front Page Top

#9 AH!, a fine pearl among many here. Mike Kozlowski who posts here is a writer as well. I always enjoyed Kenneth Roberts- Rabble in Arms.

Posted by Dale 2011-12-19 14:24|| 2011-12-19 14:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Ebbang Uluque6305: While they are told about Hitler and the Holocaust, it is just a mention, and the teachers do not go into any detail. This is actually worse, because students just think of the Nazis as little more than 'snazzy uniforms'.

Which leads to some dangerous moral equivalence.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-12-19 15:52|| 2011-12-19 15:52|| Front Page Top

#11 I got told FDRs big government ended the depression when in fact it accelerated, extended and deepened the depression!

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-12-19 17:20|| 2011-12-19 17:20|| Front Page Top

#12 BP, msnbc has a commercial for themselves which says exactly that.

We also have a presidential candidate who says JFK just called up Kruschev and said pretty please remove those nukes, and Kruschev replied sure diddly do.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-12-19 18:39|| 2011-12-19 18:39|| Front Page Top

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