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Does the Witch Hunt to Rename Monuments Signal a Narrow Education?
Intellectual Take Out ^ | May 30, 2017 | Annie Holmquist

Posted on 06/18/2020 5:51:46 PM PDT by robowombat

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To: arthurus
It signals a broad lack of education and a propagandization.

yeah, it's not just a lack of education. I've suffered from a lack of education, solely because I hated history in high school, and didn't pay a lot of attention. I have recovered, and have since learned many things. I'm no scholar, mind you, but I have a pretty good base these days.

The propagandization - that is strong. I learned something I never thought I would when I went back to college some 15 years after finishing high school. I learned that things had changed a LOT concerning how history and social order was taught. The mid 90s was my great awakening to the lies and distortions that were being taught at the college level, at least at some schools.

21 posted on 06/18/2020 6:56:11 PM PDT by meyer (WWG1WGA, MAGA! Derps vs. Patriots, choose your side.)
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To: robowombat

Do wild bears crap in the woods?


22 posted on 06/18/2020 6:56:30 PM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: meyer

So, you are old enough that history was taught when you were in high school? When I was HS in the early 60s history was pretty sparse and already trending toward PC. By the time my kids were in HS the public schools didn’t even have courses titled with the word “History.” My primary schooling was in a private Calvert System school for the spawn of diplomats and military in Istanbul. When I got back to the USA by 6th grade I already had more history than I was to encounter again before my junior year in college where I majored in it.


23 posted on 06/18/2020 7:44:06 PM PDT by arthurus (tkvl)
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To: proud American in Canada

“Erasing history? Never going to happen.”

Oh, I’m hoping it does. According to the liberal news masters at the NY Times, research has identified Redoshi, later given the name Sally Smith, who died in 1937, as the last living survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. If my math is right then the last person who had direct knowledge of there being slaves died over 80 years ago. So except for opinions, there is no first hand knowledge of slavery as there is no victim proof unless faith in opinions is accepted. If slavery history is removed, then it didn’t happen. And anyone can say it did. I can say I was standing on the moon without o2, don’t mean much. If history is erased, it is gone. So, no reparations, no special programs, nothing. And so are the followup excuses for inflicting pain and suffering. Build more jails, you’re gong to need them.

Please be that stupid. It would solve a lot of problems.

rwood


24 posted on 06/18/2020 8:30:53 PM PDT by Redwood71
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To: robowombat

Let’s rename Pennsylvania to Smeltzavania after the Smeltz brothers.


25 posted on 06/18/2020 8:44:22 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (spooks won on day 76)
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To: robowombat

I heard some liberals saying everything should be named after Indians. Ie ohlone


26 posted on 06/18/2020 10:36:27 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump pence II!)
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To: 9YearLurker
"It’s a Maoist cultural revolution in process, as part of a planned globalist, Marxist revolution."

The "protesters" are helping 1% billionaires to enslave the world, while claiming to be against slavery. Irony.

27 posted on 06/18/2020 10:48:13 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: Pajamajan

Which is why the “useful idiots” term has always been so apt.


28 posted on 06/19/2020 4:00:01 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: FlyingEagle

The thing about changing names is that when sanity returns they can be changed back like Leningrad back to St. Petersburg. :)


29 posted on 06/19/2020 4:50:28 AM PDT by xp38
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To: robowombat

Yes. Fear and ignorance reigns liberals.


30 posted on 06/19/2020 5:57:18 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: robowombat

It signals no education at all.


31 posted on 06/19/2020 3:29:03 PM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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