Lies My Teachers Told Me

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Lie Number Four: America Was Founded On "Racism And Genocide:" This lie is usually followed up with disturbing stories of Indian massacres and slavery abuses that play heavily on the emotions of students

This Lie is also based on the purged history about the Indian vs. White Man relationship. I am the descendant of one of the few survivors of the Pigeon Roost Masacare, purpetrated by those worshiped "Indegenous Americans". Another ancestor of mine witnessed her childs brains bashed out on the door post by another Indian.

In the cases where Indians lived peacefully with whites, they got along fine, and eventually the two cultures merged (sorry the Indian culture lost, but that's life. The same has happened to lots of other cultures that we're all descended from)

I'm part Cherokee myself. But I think the european culture taking over this continent was the best thing that has happened to the entire planet.

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BTTT

[Congressman Billybob]

Excellent article. Thanks for the post.

Every freshman going into any college should read this article, or others like it, BEFORE they walk into the average college classroom. Unfortunately, about 0.00001% of all new college students will be exposed to such ideas.

Instead, most of us are condemned to spend years or even decades with a pile of historical and political much in our brains, until the real world educates us to the folly that our professors were imposing on us.

Congressman Billybob

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[JimRed]

This should be required reading for every high school junior and college freshman. Fat chance, though; it busts too many of the teachers' union sacred cows.

[Hardastarboard]

Wow!! That is a PROFOUND thought!

[TankerKC]

It rules many states that once had sovreignty in principle, which it conquered in war.

I'm not sure what you are getting at.

[TankerKC]

That is a PROFOUND thought!

Agree.

[MissAmericanPie]

Great find.

[SpaceBar]

Perhaps you should read "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James W.Loewen.

[MissAmericanPie]

This got me to thinking how lucky I was to have missed this mess. My history professor was born to teach it. I hated when class time was over with.

He made events seem like they had happened yesterday instead of over 200 years ago. I knew so much about George Washington's personality and thought process that I expected him to walk into the room any second, powdered wig and all, like a long lost uncle.

The deterioration of our education system is such a shame.

[PhilipFreneau]

This lie is usually followed up with disturbing stories of Indian massacres and slavery abuses that play heavily on the emotions of students.

My 11th-great-grandfather, Captain Samuel Maycock, was one of the 350 or so killed by Indians in the Jamestown Massacre of 1622.

[MegaSilver]

Actually, you are understating the case here. The CPUSA was both funded and controlled by the Soviet Union. We know this both from the Venona data and also because the bagman was an American spy.

His name escapes me at the moment, but he had been a former communist who was sent back in to the party at the the behest of the US government. He became highly trusted by the Soviets after making a spot on analysis of what would happen to Nixon in regards to Watergate.

Interesting...

[MegaSilver]

BUMP--gotta remember Eric Hoffer.

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It rules many states that once had sovreignty in principle, which it conquered in war.

I'm not sure what you are getting at.

I'm saying that perhaps 50 states united under threat of military force (which was exercised once) might technically constitute an empire.

[Marie Antoinette]

My history professor was born to teach it. I hated when class time was over with.

Interestingly, I have the same situation. My history teacher, even though he's moderately left, makes for the fastest 1:45 I spend all day. He is fair with history, although he's somewhat anti-Bush.

My history book, which does a smear job on Reagan, is happily left unopened. It even offers further reading on Reagan, written by Robert B. Reichhhhhhhhhhuuh. Like I'm going to take HIS word for anything.

Big Giant Head

[Lucas McCain]

Something should be added to the rebuttal of lie number one. No one can deny that the U.S. had more than enough military power to defeat the North Vietnamese. We chose not to unleash that power primarily because as a people we were unwilling to inflict the kind of suffering on the Vietnamese people that victory would have required.

What other "imperialist" power in history voluntarily declined an easy military victory because of its concern for the welfare of its enemy?

[kitkat]

BUMP `

[HitmanLV]

Lie Number Six: Marx Was A “Genius”

One thing I have noticed is that the threshold for 'genuius' has been lowered considerably over the last several decades. This always made me laugh since people I have seen regarded as 'brilliant,' or 'genius' actually aren't that impressive at all.

At work, I would for example do a task, sometimes unusually quickly, and some higher-up would wax complimentary, calling me 'brilliant' or some overstated compliment. I would always laugh it off and dismiss it, my position being that those words are just used too much to be meaningful in normal use.

[TankerKC]

gotcha

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