A Quiet Revolution in High Schools and Colleges
I came across this article on Facebook.
Millennials can’t help it
Many of us shake our heads at how young people can possible have the worldview they have, one evidenced by their support of Socialists. It is not their fault. It is the fault of the curriculum they are taught in our public schools. Case in point, the most commonly taught ‘history’ book in America’s high schools was written by the Master of Deceit, Howard Zinn, ‘A People’s History of the United States,’ which is pure Marxist propaganda written by an Atheist Communist.
The book is full of lies written to bolster Leftist Ideology. Zinn admitted he wrote not to chronicle the past but to further his own social aims, and those of his fellow travelers. He conceded that the book “is a biased account. I am not troubled by that.” In his own words: “I wanted history and my teaching of history to be part of social struggle.” Many celebrities and professors fawn over the book, like it is their Bible. The New York Times declared (when it came out in 1980) that it should be ‘required reading’ for American students—and so it is.
More striking than the gross inaccuracies, are the intentional omissions. Washington’s Farewell Address, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, and Reagan’s speech at the Brandenburg Gate are excluded. No mention is made of America leading the world in inventions by a country mile, such as the first walk on the moon. Not included are Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright Brothers, and Jonas Salk but we do learn about Joan Baez, the Berrigan Brothers, and Speckled Snake. Left out are the great American success stories such as Alexander Hamilton, John Jacob Astor, and Louis B. Mayer. There is no mention of the Normandy Invasion at D-Day or other important American victories but the My Lai Massacre gets three pages.
To Howard Zinn, Red China under Chairman Mao was not the bloodiest state in world history in terms of mass killings by its government but a people’s paradise. Cuba under Castro has no record of suppression whatsoever, in his telling. There is very little one can learn about history in this book. If you have read Karl Marx you can predict what Zinn will say. The first line in the ‘Communist Manifesto’—“The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggle”—is how Zinn explains the entirety of American History. He sees greed motivating every major event—the rich got richer at the expense of others is all you need to understand.
America sparked the fire of Freedom and Self-Government around the world, but to Zinn our own Founding was a new diabolical way to oppress others. Whether the United States permitted or abolished slavery, its motives can be boiled down to pernicious greed. Even our entry into World War Two was because Americans were greedy, according to Howard Zinn. And us rebuilding our mortal enemies after that conflagration, Japan and Germany, who are now our chief economic rivals, that was American greed too.
Howard Zinn’s book says, laughably, “Unemployment grew during the Reagan Years,” which is ridiculously false. The day Reagan took office unemployment was 7.5%; the day he left office it was 5.4%. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see which figure is greater. He only smears Reagan because Reagan helped free hundreds of millions of people from the Slavery of the Socialism that Zinn builds his entire worldview around.
‘A People’s History of the United States’ can be reduced to this: workers are good, entrepreneurs are bad; minorities are good, white men are bad; feminists, racial agitators, and socialists are good but Christians, Conservatives, and Achievers are bad. All people are neatly slotted into groups and all groups have been oppressed except one: the Oppressor (did you guess heterosexual white males?). posted by James Watkins
Looking for myself to see if this is true, I found this article on Wikipedia that verifies the required reading of this deceptive history book in our high-schools and colleges.
A People's History of the United States
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People% … ted_States
Millennials are lead to believe anti-American propaganda as historical truth. This is an eye opener (in part) to how and why people are brainwashed in masses by the government. I know that many millennials know better and completely reject socialism...and are too smart to fall for the lies being taught in schools. While there are those with low IQs that may have forfeited their brains in the government's common core education system, but its not their fault.
It is something to think about, and shows how important it is to get rid of Common Core, and bring the schools educational materials back into the control at the local levels (where smart parents and smart teachers have a say). One more great reason to support Trump.
They want your mind controlled!
"government run 'education' (read: indoctrination) must be permanently outlawed. Free and mandatory government education is one of Karl Marx's Ten Planks of Communism." - Bill Henderson
Not to the God is love part. Just the rest of it.
Good question, Cred. "What agency or process is going to keep the cost of college within the reach of the average person".
Cutting to the chase with a poll question that no one raised their hand...
“How many of you would say that the primary motivation for offering students merit scholarships is to reward academic achievement?”
That response goes a long way to explain college tuition rates that have risen 12% in the last decade while median household income has declined 6% over the same period. And why student debt levels have hit $1.2 trillion, a burden that surpasses even U.S. household credit card debt.
Elite universities like Harvard, Stanford and others on the top of the FORBES list exist in their own orbit–they admit students without factoring in need, their multibillion-dollar endowments providing generous grants for the middle-class and poor. (Get into any Ivy League school with a family income of less than $60,000 and you can pretty much expect a free ride.) ...
Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgra … 8cfd3c6efb
Sounds like a problem that Trump / Carson can solve.
OR Facilitate job creation by the citizens themselves:
1. Follow/comprehend The Constitution's original precepts.
2. Give states, cities, communities back their power.
3. Keep jobs in the US and all that entails.
4. Ease up on the fines, regulations, over-burensome taxes and rules that make entrepreneurship IMPOSSIBLE in this country.
5. Provide opportunity through education and all that entails.
How any of this could be done I have no idea.
Let's ask Mr. Sanders and Mrs. Clinton.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Cruz.
Oh wait, no more debates.
Patrick Henry and the American Revelation is still remembered in history text books. The man who founded this great country. "Give me liberty or give me death" is the only text from his great words from his 1775 speech that remain, all else has be deleted.
"An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God that. presides over the destinies of nations. The battle sir, is not of the strong alone. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death."
The attacks on our religions started during the Cold War. Communism/socialism opposes religion in countries that adopted it and discourages it, and also opposes nationalism. Socialism and communism are the same ideology.
Except religions that are based on socialism that promotes atheism.
Sounds to me like another controlling religion based on works.
What about Christianity?- ahorsebackposted 7 years ago
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