It use to be that in our schools we were taught civics…..learning how the government was formed and works was how one became a solid member of our great society….well those days are gone…..these days it is more important teach revisionism and pure horse manure than the workings of a good government.
I am proud that most of my historic schooling was taught all aspects of our history, (not completely but better than the crap they pass off as history these days) our students should be taught all aspects of our history, the good, the bad and the ugly.
We have two opposing thoughts on our great society…..
The fight today is not about what we want to achieve but, rather, how best to achieve it. Both sides claim to want a society in which people can live fulfilling lives. Both claim to adhere to the vision outlined in the Declaration of Independence and supported by our Constitution. Yet neither side has any sense of common ground on which to move forward.
Put generally, one side envisions improving our society through a highly involved federal government that provides greater support and greater regulation meant to benefit everyone. The other side believes that traditional American ideals of individual freedom, limited government, and free markets will lead to a better life for all.
Those who want to restrict government power and reach are depicted as greedy and without compassion for the disenfranchised and less fortunate. Those who desire larger government aid and controls are seen as ignorant of history and human nature. One side is judged heartless; the other, brainless. These polarizing caricatures quash any desire for a real understanding of how we as one nation can move forward.
I think that Howard Zinn’s book should be taught in our schools, The People’s History of the United States….
Then there is the historian Maj. Danny Sjursen (Ret)…..his great series….”American History for Truthdiggers” is also a great look at our history….
This is his series…..
Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7; Part 8; Part 9; Part 10; Part 11; Part 12; Part 13; Part 14; Part 15; Part 16; Part 17; Part 18; Part 19; Part 20; Part 21; Part 22; Part 23; Part 24; Part 25; Part 26; Part 27; Part 28; Part 29; Part 30; Part 31; Part 32; Part 33; Part 34; Part 35; Part 36; Part 37.
This is the final part of the series…..
Below is the 38th and last installment of the “American History for Truthdiggers” series, a pull-no-punches appraisal of our shared, if flawed, past. The author of the series, Danny Sjursen, who retired recently as a major in the U.S. Army, served military tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and taught the nation’s checkered, often inspiring past when he was an assistant professor of history at West Point.
American History for Truthdiggers: A Once, Always and Future Empire
There should be a standard for teaching history….instead we have 1000s of school districts that try and control the history our students learn.
My question is….what are these revisionists afraid of our students learning?
Like the 16 GOPers that voted against teaching a sad part of our history…..
More than a dozen House Republicans on Wednesday voted against legislation to promote public education about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
The bipartisan bill was authored by Republican Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) and passed handily by a vote of 406-16. All of the no votes came from Republicans, including several members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus.
The Republicans who registered their opposition were Reps. Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Mo Brooks (Ala.), Michael Cloud (Texas), Louie Gohmert (Texas), Bob Good (Va.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Andy Harris (Md.), Clay Higgins (La.), Trey Hollingsworth (Ind.), Doug LaMalfa (Calif.), Thomas Massie (Ky.), Mary Miller (Ill.), Ralph Norman (S.C.), Matt Rosendale (Mont.), Chip Roy (Texas) and Van Taylor (Texas).
(thehill.com)
What are these spineless freaks afraid of in education?
Now I read that FOX News has declared war on teachers……
From Tucker Carlson to Laura Ingraham to Mark Levin, Fox News propagandists have declared war on public school teachers. The dangerous attacks follow the right’s misleading claims – fueled by Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislation – about children inappropriately being taught about sex, homosexuality, bisexuality, sexual orientation, and gender identity starting as early as kindergarten.
Last month, just days after Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis’ spokesperson Christina Pushaw charged that anyone who opposed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill was “probably” a “groomer” – essentially, a pedophile, pedophile enabler, or pedophile supporter, Fox News propagandist Laura Ingraham jumped into action.
“When did our public schools, any schools, become what are essentially grooming centers for gender identity radicals?” Ingraham asked, as Media Matters reported. The chyron was less ambiguous: “Liberals are sexually grooming elementary students.”
https://www.alternet.org/2022/04/fox-news/
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One can’t teach the history of mankind without understanding.. and embracing.. the natural foibles and benevolences of man that have created that history.
I think that a total knowledge of history is the only way it can be understood…..without understand then you have America of today where non-issues are paramount. chuq
All forms of revisionism, bar none, are designed for one purpose and one purpose only … to change the national dialogue in favor of some political aspiration and to set a stage that supports those changes by trying to give them credibility by means of assigning Historical reality to them. Revisionists always bend the spectrum of experience to attempt to promote one agenda or the other. Revisionism also attempts to alter uncomfortable facts. Example: Right leaning politicists trying to clean their image of any negative elements … elements such as anything that would support the facts of rampant racism among most who claim themselves to be right wing conservative so-called christians … christians who, by the way, are most favorable in all instances to denying minorities the rights to enjoy any freedoms whatsoever whenever they can get the chance. Revisionists desire earnestly to remove all such stains from their subjects’ active past. Revisionists are all either deluded or liars.
Liars in my book…..chuq
What is truly sad is that our political system is SO dysfunctional now that Republicans disrespect a Black woman as she is added to the Supreme Court…walking out on her and hitting her with slanderous lies – the far “left” can be just as offensive, and there seems to be no moderate middle…sad state of the world
The GOP disrespects most blacks……as far as the world goes…..a pathetic lot. chuq
The intererence with history worries me most. If we were alive in 100 years time, we would not be able to recognise what is written as ‘history’. It will all be altered and changed.
Best wishes, Pete.
I agree there is already too much BS being said as history. chuq
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