Why is the So Left Insane? That Anti-July Fourth WaPo Piece Exposes What They’re Being Taught in Colleges

President Trump decided to celebrate our nation’s birthday and in doing so, set off a meltdown not seen in quite a while from the media. Who am I kidding? It was a day that ends in “y” with these clowns. If Trump said the sky was blue, they would dole out endless articles attacking him. Trump decided to kick off the Fourth of July weekend by delivering a speech and fireworks show at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. That really set off the Left. And it didn’t stop there. This whole weekend is going to be grade-A Trump derangement entertainment from the press. And then, there’s these perspective and op-ed pieces from liberals that bash America.

Take this one in The Washington Post, which says the global legacy of our independence has to be reconsidered. Again, the Left is attacking our founding, which isn’t out of the ordinary, but the history professor who penned this piece exposes what kids are being taught in higher education. It’s not pretty. As some have already pointed out, the thesis of the piece is just historically illiterate. America’s independence is responsible for the spread of global racism or something. Oh, and when we finally broke away from Britain, we somehow set forth the UK’s conquest of India or something.

As Joe Gabriel Simonson at the Washington Examiner noted, the Brits had been in the Indian subcontinent since the 16th century. And yes, he also said this is what’s being taught about this nation in higher education because you know this isn’t the only professor spewing this garbage. You can see why the ‘woke’ legions are so unhinged if they’re being taught this nonsense (via WaPo):

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The first is the central paradox in U.S. history: The nation’s democracy was founded as a slave society.

The second is that after cutting political ties with Great Britain, Americans doubled down on the British Empire’s project of colonial domination. The American Revolution inspired freedom movements in other parts the world. But it also contributed to the worldwide spread of white supremacy.

In the century after independence, the United States went from being a province of Britain’s empire to building its own empire “from sea to shining sea” and then overseas in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam.

When President Thomas Jefferson set the country on a path of westward expansion, he imagined an “empire of liberty” that would spread freedom across the continent and protect the nation from the “dangerous extension” of British power. But the growth of slavery and the “removal” of native peoples on the mainland were achieved by force, not consent.

Across the Atlantic, Britain responded to the loss of the 13 colonies by developing a “second,” much larger empire in Asia, Australia and Africa. Both the American and the British Empires post-1776 were structured by racial hierarchy, violence and a systemic devaluation of black and indigenous lives.

Consider, for example, the case of India. In the decades after U.S. independence, the British East India Co. conquered most of the subcontinent. British colonizers embedded racism in the law, political economy, geography and culture of British India from the late 18th century.

Britain’s settler colonies in Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Africa caused the violent dispossession of indigenous peoples and frequently justified the idea of black extermination. In 1825, for instance, a white settler in Australia publicly proposed: “The best thing that could be done would be to shoot all the Blacks … the women and children should especially be shot as the most certain method of getting rid of the race.” Despite self-aggrandizing claims to the contrary, Britain’s abolition of slavery in 1833 did not stop racism. In fact, colonial expansion intensified colonial racism.

Genocidal violence was a foundational pillar of the British Empire, not an accidental or unintentional outcome. As a consequence of colonial policies, as many as 30 million Indians died of starvation during three major famines that ravaged the subcontinent in the last quarter of the 19th century.

After America declared independence from Britain, both countries maintained powerful traditions of racism and violence that were distinct and interconnected.

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I mean, is this a joke? The United States is at fault for Britain’s…total colonization of India. If we didn’t break free, India wouldn’t have been colonized…by an imperial superpower like Britain? Doubtful. But that’s a useless historical debate. We did break free and we shouldn’t apologize for that. And somehow our independence has to be reconsidered due to some oddball global racism paradigm is just ‘woke’ trash. There is no room for nuance or character error with the Left. You must be perfect. You must be progressive. You must have zero so-called problematic blemishes in your past otherwise you’re erased. That’s not how life or the human condition work.

There will be flaws. Every nation has dark points. That’s just a fact. But this notion that global racism was caused by our independence is just absurd. At face value, this whole piece is just trash and shows the dangerous consequences of historical revisionism. We're to blame for all the world's evils because...we broke free from King George III. How about we put down the crack pipe. And I thought Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) saying that we invented slavery on the Senate floor was bad. This one may have topped that.

Here’s a little perspective about communism in college from the commencement speech from the 1952 movie “My Son John”

Members of the graduating class and their fathers and mothers, I mention your parents because I address you as representing their tomorrows. Sometimes this day is called graduation, sometimes commencement. For you, as for me, it will be both. But my life will be altogether different from yours.

By now a plane has arrived in Lisbond. It would've carried me far beyond the laws of my native land. But no plane, no meanse of transportation, nothing can take a man away from himself. He lives with himself day and night. His conscience lives with him. It's force will not be stilled. Mine warned me that I would not be free in Lisbond, but I would only find my freedom here.

So here I stand hardly believing that but a few years back I sat down there in my cap and gown like all of you. I looked like you then. I felt like you feel today. Ready to go. Forward! Full of zeal, full of purpose. I was going to help make a better world. I was flattered when I was immediately recognized as an intellect. I was invited to homes where only superior minds communed. It excited my freshman fancy to hear daring thoughts that I wouldnt've dreamed of when I lived at home. A bold defiance of the only authroities I'd ever known: my church and my mother and father.

I know that many of you have experienced that stimulation. But stimulants lead to narcotics. As the seller of habit forming dope gives the innocent their first inaculations with the cunning worthy of a serpant, there are others snakes lying in wait to satisfy the desire of the young to dedicate themselves to something positive, to give their existence purpose. The lure is to every young American's sense of justice, their love of fairplay that makes all decent men rebel against the evil forces that exploit the weak. With the purest and noblest motives we eagerly embrace an organized, definite and active movement to alleviate the suffering all around us. A beautiful liberalism is now arroused and we have faith in ourselves, our comrades. Somewhere along the line our brain has been numbed so that we have substituted faith in man for faith in God.

Even now the eyes of Soviet agents are on some of you. They've observed your abilities and seen qualities that I once posessed. It's too late to save me. It is not too late for you to save yourselves. No one warned me as solemnley as I am warning you now. Hold fast to honor. It's sacred! No one tried to live the part they wrote for me more than I did. But living it with no spiritual compass I lost all sense of direction. Any meanse justified their ends: shameless falsehood, self abasement, treachery! And before I realized the enormity of the steps I had taken I was an enemy of my country and a servant of a foreign power.

Now you know that the honor converred upon me in this citation is false. Every word in it is a lie because I am a living lie. I AM A TRAITOR. I AM A NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNIST SPY and may God have mercy on my soul. There is another paper waiting for me, this time truthfully worded; a warrant for my arrest. That is my proper degree and this also my commencement day, the beginning of a new life so help me God.

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