Most college students think America invented slavery, professor finds

The College Fix ^ | 10-31-16 | Kate Hardiman

[DeweyCA]

This is an example not of how bad college history courses are (which often are really bad). This shows how bad high school history courses have become. The students also probably get many of their erroneous history ideas from TV and the internet. Parents must actively seek to correctly inform their kids about America's true history, so they don't end up believing a bunch of lies, and not appreciating America, and so not being willing to defend its Constitution.

[sten]

democrat run education is anything but

[TexasGator]

The parents don’t know squat about world history ...

[lacrew]

Imagine his surprise if he quizzed these students’ high school teachers about slavery.

[Rodm]

I guess they never watched the Ten Commandments.

Oh yeah, that’s right, white slaves aren’t really slaves at all.

[miss marmelstein]

Years ago, the BBC did a study on Brits knowledge of slavery and found they knew nothing about Britain’s role in slavery but lots about American slavery.

[maro]

Practically all societies have practiced slavery at one time or another. I suspect that most people are descended from slaves or slaveowners or both.

[Puppage]

Most college graduates can’t tell you who America fought in WWII.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

This is an important point. The idea that slavery is this unique “stain” on America that needs to be somehow rectified lies at the root of a lot of what’s wrong with liberal ideology. The United States of American inherited slavery, which had existed for all of human history and in every society, and then did more to eradicate it than any other nation on Earth.

[Secret Agent Man]

It is the entire public school system from day 1.

[fwdude]

“Students” must be the newest euphemism for... you know... Amish.

[Secret Agent Man]

No one talks about the irish slaves here. Treated much worse than black slaves.

[Republic_Venom]

Middle eastern Jews are white? Really? DUMBASS!

[Buckeye McFrog]

We never had that misconception as kids.

Probably because we read THE BIBLE!!

[fwdude]

I worked as a tutor on campus during my undergraduate work and several black students were placed with me for remedial math tutoring - very rudimentary stuff they should have learned by the 3rd grade. I couldn’t believe it. It was bad enough that they graduated HS, but to be admitted to college with that woefully inadequate readiness?

Someone needs to lose their jobs.

[Puppage]

Yikes!

[dfwgator]

Most college graduates can’t tell you who America fought in WWII.



"Welcome to the Time Masheen. We are going to take you back, first to the year 1939, when Charlie Chaplin and his evil Nazi regime enslaved Europe and tried to take over the world..."

[Kickass Conservative]

Remember, these Morons can Vote, just like any one of us.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Union labor built the pyramids.

[abclily]

They don’t know that slavery is alive and very active in the Middle East today?