Children taught to be ashamed of America
MF Ogilvie
Feb. 24, 2003
The Historians vs. American History
By C. Bradley Thompson
It is now obvious that American children know very little about the
history of their own nation. This past year the U.S. Department of
Education released its History Report Card and the results were
predictably awful: 57 percent of high school seniors flunked even a
basic knowledge of American history, and only 10 percent tested at
grade level.
What is less obvious-and more dangerous-is that the history they do
know is utterly subversive of American culture and values.
I recently attended the annual meeting of the American Historical
Association, the nation's largest and most influential organization of
academic historians. What goes on at this meeting will eventually make
its way into your child's classroom. I was shocked by what I saw and
heard.
Of the roughly two hundred panels, there was virtually nothing on
subjects such as the American Revolution, the Civil War, or America's
involvement in the two World Wars. Instead, there were dozens of
papers on subjects ranging from the banal to the bizarre and perverse.
Participants were subjected to scintillating presentations on topics
such as "Meditations on a Coffee Pot: Visual Culture and Spanish
America, 1520-1820," or "The Joys of Cooking: Ideologies of Housework
in Early Modern England," or "Body, Body, Burning Bright: Cremation in
Victorian America."
But without question the dominant theme of the conference was sex.
Historians at America's best universities are obsessed with it.
One historian from an Ivy League college delivered a paper on "Strong
Hard Filth and the Aroma of Washington Square: Art, Homosexual Life,
and Postal Service Censorship in the Ulysses Obscenity Trial of 1921."
Another scholar from Berkeley spoke on "Solitary Self/Solitary Sex."
And one spoke on "Constructing Masculinity: Homosexual Sodomy,
Ethnicity, and the Politics of Penetrative Manhood in Early Modern
Spain."
But historians' obsession with sex is the least of their vices.
Academic history has become thoroughly egalitarian. It seeks to
elevate the history of ordinary men and women doing ordinary things at
the expense of great men and women doing great things. Thus, the
history department at Harvard University no longer offers a course on
the American Revolution. In its place, it now offers a course on the
history of midwives and quilting.
Worse yet, mainstream historians are driven by a pernicious political
agenda that seeks to elevate "group rights" over individual rights. By
sanctifying the stories of oppressed and "marginalized" groups,
historians subtly indoctrinate students with the idea that justice and
rights are synonymous with one's group identity, be it one's race,
ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation.
But what of America's founding ideals, such as the principle of
inalienable individual rights?
Ultimately, academic history is driven by a hatred of America and its
ideals. It is common these days for students to be told that the
colonization of North America represents an act of genocide; that the
Founding Fathers were racist, sexist, "classist," "homophobic,"
Euro-centric bigots; that the winning of the American West was an act
of capitalist pillage; that the so-called "Robber Barons" forced
widows and orphans into the streets; that hidden in the closets of
most white Americans is a robe and hood.
To help put over this slander, historians dissolve American history
into a chaotic hodge-podge of trivial stories about politically
correct victim groups. It is no wonder that our children no longer
learn the truly important facts about their nation's history.
There was a time, not too long ago, when students were required to
study the great events, the magnanimous statesmen, the brave warriors,
the brilliant inventors, and the ingenious industrialists of American
history. There was a time when American students knew in intimate
detail the heroic story of the American Revolution and the tragedy of
the Civil War.
American children once learned about honesty from George Washington,
justice from Thomas Jefferson, integrity from John Adams, independence
from Daniel Boone, oratory from Daniel Webster, ingenuity from Thomas
Edison, perseverance from the Wright Brothers, and courage from
Sergeant York. They memorized and learned the principles of the
Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg
Address. American history was taught as a grand story of epic scale
and heroic accomplishment. The history of America was the history of
freedom.
Today, our children are being taught to be ashamed of America. By
denigrating the principles and great deeds of America's past and
dethroning its heroes, today's college professors are destroying in
our youth the proper reverence for the ideals this nation stands for.
And a nation that hates itself cannot last.
Anonymous
that glorified crap that American history was all flag waving glory. Me, I
prefer the truth, as this is how we learn from our missteps. This country
has bright moments and bad moments. It's the same for every country or
empire that came before America.
So what if scholars get together to discuss aspects of history better suited
to scholars than high schoolers?
Geeze you dopes want to make anything that doesn't make America star spangle
in blood, guts, and God to be sacrilege. Seriously, you guy sound more and
more like neo-communists instead of neo-conservatives. Totalitarian states
are notorious for censoring any history that doesn't put the state in the
best light possible. Your none stop uber-patriotism has blinded you what
happens in totalitarian states to people who don't pledge their blind
obedience to the leader or the state.
You may soon get your wish, as you and those who think like you start to
call for the jailing of dissidents.
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"Anonymous" <Nobody> wrote in message news:3ea57116$1_3@anonymous...
> This is the dumbest piece of drivel I've seen yet.
If you want to have some fun, as a "college graduate" when the US Civil War
was fought. Most can't even tell you the century. Guess that's fine with
liberal assholes like you. And how many billions do we spend on this public
(socialist) shit educational system? Not to mention the years of kid's lives
wasted. Oh well, at least the NEA makes some bucks and the Left gets to
spread anti-white hate.
MF Ogilvie
> that glorified crap that American history was all flag waving glory. Me, I
> prefer the truth, as this is how we learn from our missteps. This country
> has bright moments and bad moments. It's the same for every country or
> empire that came before America.
Sure it has. The point is, government school educators, and
particularly college professors, spend 99% of their time talking about
all of the "bad" thinks America has done, while not giving the good
things a single sentence. People like me are tired of those among us,
those who have benefitted from the advantages this country has to
offer, same as you and me, constantly tearing it down. This country
is not evil; never has been.