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Kids to Meet Marx in School – Care of Hollywood and The History Channel
Big Hollywood ^ | 12/9/2009 | Patrick Courrielche

Posted on 12/09/2009 11:15:53 AM PST by NMEwithin

Children are uniquely malleable beings, readily convinced of magically colorful tales – Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy are the first that come to mind. This innocence is beautiful, but it is a quality that can easily fall victim to radically foreign ideas if taught consistently and pervasively at an early age. One need only look at the birth of fascism or socialism to see a recipe for how radical ideas become ubiquitous among a nation’s youth. Enter Howard Zinn – an author, professor and American historian – who, with the help of Hollywood and the History Channel, intends to change the way our pre-K through high school children learn American history. His current curriculum suggestions, like introducing three-year-olds to the lynching of African-Americans, or quizzing seven-year-olds on which Presidents owned slaves, should be a red flag to parents.

Zinn has spent a lifetime teaching college students about the evils of capitalism, the promise of Marxism, and his version of American history – a history that has, in his view, been kept from students. His controversial 1980-book The People’s History of the United States paints traditional American history as a façade – one that has grotesquely immortalized flawed leaders and is based on principles that victimize the common man. In 2004, Zinn wrote a companion book entitled Voices Of A People’s History Of The United States, which includes speeches and writings from many of the people featured in The People’s History.

(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; christianright; historychannel; hollywoodreds; howardzinn; indoctrination; littleredschoolhouse; marx; pravdamedia; publicschool; revisionisthistory; stalinisttactics; zinn
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To: netmilsmom

Ironically, he was a Communist sympathizer.


21 posted on 12/09/2009 1:36:37 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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To: NMEwithin

bttt


22 posted on 12/09/2009 1:59:09 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Clintonfatigued; Impy

Another reason to homeschool... and cancel “The History Channel.”


23 posted on 12/09/2009 2:13:43 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: ConservativeMind

He was a huge lib and was investigated but nothing was found.
He was not blacklisted.

Love his comedy, hate his politics.


24 posted on 12/09/2009 2:54:33 PM PST by netmilsmom (I am Ilk)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Enter Howard Zinn

25 posted on 12/09/2009 3:32:17 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: NMEwithin

Has anyone noticed that these old leftists seem to live forever? I guess the devil takes care of his own.


26 posted on 12/09/2009 4:02:08 PM PST by conservativebuckeye
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To: fieldmarshaldj

There is a history channel piece on Stalin that kids should watch.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9118985704353138889#


27 posted on 12/09/2009 5:29:07 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN | NO "INDIVIDUAL MANDATE"!!!!!!!)
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To: NMEwithin
Yeah I figured this would be some commie/leftist bilge when I saw the clowns Danny Glover and Matt Damon advertising for this crapola on History.

Guard your kids!

28 posted on 12/09/2009 7:59:55 PM PST by thecraw (God allows evil. God allowed Barry to usurp the highest office in the land. God will not be mocked.)
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To: metmom; Tired of Taxes; wintertime

Not only is this a reason to homeschool, but also to send an angry complaint to the History Channel.


29 posted on 12/09/2009 8:07:40 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Liberal sacred cows make great hamburger)
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To: a fool in paradise; ml/nj; NMEwithin; ExTexasRedhead; pissant; BP2; Candor7; patriot08; ...
...which Presidents were Red Diaper Doper Babies raised on a steady diet of anti-American Marxist theology?

As far as I know, there has only been one who fits the category: Barack Hussein Obama. And fittingly, he is probably the only president born after 1776 who is not a native born American citizen, perhaps not even an American citizen at all! The Founding Fathers knew what they were doing when they put the NBC clause into the Constitution.

30 posted on 12/10/2009 2:24:45 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93
Chester A. Arthur may have been born in Canada; and I don't believe his father was a US citizen at the time of CAA's birth.

ML/NJ

31 posted on 12/10/2009 2:39:18 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: SunkenCiv; NMEwithin; Clintonfatigued; Just A Nobody; fieldmarshaldj; RedRover; GitmoSailor; ...
FYI, Zinn became a TV “star” a few years ago when PBS created a documentary based on his “People's History” and interviewed him in segments of it. Wonder how many public school teachers made their pupils watch it.
32 posted on 12/10/2009 2:40:23 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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33 posted on 12/10/2009 3:26:45 PM PST by potlatch (ACTIONS - Speak Louder Than Words)
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To: justiceseeker93

You bet they did! Now the fraud must be exposed..


34 posted on 12/10/2009 11:42:25 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: justiceseeker93

Obama wasn’t raised in America, that is certain. He did not grow up in an America loving household (at least until after age 10). Momma was globe trotting, trying to find something “else”.

Bill Clinton and moreso John Kerry were also Red Diaper Doper hippies in the 1960s. Loathe the military. Raise up the Communists. Lie to Congress about warcrimes. Aid and comfort to the enemy in wartime. Treason in a word.


35 posted on 12/11/2009 6:15:47 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Question authority!Who is the University of East Anglia to drive the 'Global Climate Change' agenda?)
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To: a fool in paradise; All
Bill Clinton and John Kerry were also Red Diaper Doper hippies in the 1960s.

I would agree with you that they were on the left in the 1960s and that Clinton was a "doper" (he used marijuana but "did not inhale" - LOL!). But neither was a "Red Diaper Baby", which means that neither was born into a family with parents who were Red - at least in so far as we know. That distinguishes those two from O.

36 posted on 12/11/2009 6:34:41 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

However, IIRC, Al Gore’s dad was a Red, or at least a sympathizer, or at least a willing shill, paid off by Armand Hammer. And recall how close he came to being President.


37 posted on 12/11/2009 8:16:03 PM PST by Stultis (Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia; Democrats always opposed waterboarding as torture)
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