Posted on 04/12/2018 2:12:06 PM PDT by EdnaMode
They can’t learn what is not taught.
Many of them are foreigners with less than four generations of U.S. heritage. Besides, their teachers have indulged in too much Californian Ideology Internet dogma.
“Losing about 4% of their population in the First World War didn’t make countries feminized enough to avoid the Second World War. Nor did losses in our Civil War make Americans more feminized. So I’m going to have to put the blame or responsibility on non-biological, non-genetic factors.”
Do the math. If it was 4% of the total population it would be 8% of the men assuming a 50/50 M/F ratios pre-war. Tt works out to a 48/52 ratio post war. For the voting distribution it was even more skewed. For the 16-35 age group it was much more pronounced.
Also, in the US women couldn’t vote until long after the Civil War,
Even less when it comes to the crimes committed by the Stalin regime. Do they even know what a gulag was, or the confiscation of farms and food? Does anyone give a crap about the 100M lives of the victims of Communism? Nahhh, today’s generation couldn’t give a crap. But, they know Trayvon Martin, was murdered by a wannabe cop? Hey, they’re your kids and grand children, keep sending them to Public schools to learn. s/
If it was 4% of the total population it would be 8% of the men
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Don’t think so.
Unless the population is not 50/50.
Your math is what makes the homos turn 1% of the population into 2%.
Baloney. History is not quantum physics or advanced mathematics. You can learn it by reading books that are appropriate for almost any age.
I was talking about the idea that the strong died in the war and the weak who survived made society weak -- if that was the idea. I don't think the biological argument really works. What mattered more was what the culture and society and the economy were like.
If the idea is that the wars were such great traumas that they turned Europe permanently against war, I don't really have a problem with that -- though it took two more colonial wars to sour the French on war.
If the idea is that killing off men gave women the upper hand in the elections and that feminized society, that's as much a reflection of today's gender gap as of anything that happened at the time.
Sure, women didn't like going to war. Neither did a lot of men who went through the wars. The idea that women are on the left and men on the right is something that developed more recently. In the 1920s or the 1950s women voters were often more conservative than the men.
Women couldn't vote in France until 1944, but the country was so weak and traumatized by the First World War that nobody much wanted to fight the Second.
Western Europe turned against war because people got rich and comfortable (and because of nuclear weapons). The horrors of the two world wars had a lot to do with the change, but if Europe was still as poor as it was in 1919 or 1945 (and there was no atomic bomb), they'd still be fighting over there.
Most think we’re a democracy.
I believe it.
I recently spoke to a black man in his early 40s who had no idea who Otis Redding was.
Hell, they can’t even make change at McDonalds.
“If it was 4% of the total population it would be 8% of the men
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Don’t think so.”
100 women, 100 men. 4% of 200 die or 8 men. New distribution is 100 women and 92 men. 100 women divided by 192 total population is 52%.
The Lusitania was NOT an American ship, but it did have quite a few American passengers on board and THAT was the excuse that was used for Wilson to get us into WW I; not about American ships, of any kind, being in harms way. Until then, America was a NEUTRAL country and the Germans even let our Government know that Americans shouldn't travel on that ship, prior to its last voyage.
Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States” is the culprit.
I’m not a fan of book burnings, but if there is a book I would choose to burn it’s that one.
There have always been Jews who have never been Zionists or support the state of Israel. On the far “right” there were Orthodox communities that believed that devout Jewish communities that adhered to the Law were “Israel” wherever they may be and argued that devotion should be to G-d and not a physical place. Secular socialist Jews, many overtly atheist but Jews by birth and culture, categorically rejected Israel before and even after the Holocaust. Many if not most German Jews prior to WW I confronted with the migration of their co religionists fleeing persecution and seeking solace in Germany historically were not sympathetic to these migrants or Zionism. However all of these Jews, if they survived, never denied the Holocaust and all were affected by it. Also it can be argued that the minority Jews who do not “support” Israel, down deep in their hearts take pride and are relieved that Israel, the modern state, has come to be, prospers and continues to exist.
Absolutely. They probably have no idea who Hitler was.
This war had no good guys and no bad guys. I am still amazed that the Germans could be involved in 3 of the largest battles in military history at the same time (Somme, Brusilov, Verdun) and still survive.
Indeed. The public school system is a disaster.
But public school education, even back in the '80's, did not cover much about the Holocaust or WWII.
(However, they did manage to thoroughly go over McCarthy, and how the poor movie stars were black listed, as if this was the worst atrocity in history.)
Surprisingly though, it was Hollywood who helped shed light on the information left out, or barely covered in history classes.
They did this by making several entertaining, high quality, films and TV mini-series, about the Holocaust and second world war.
It would be so helpful if they resumed this. Even today, there are still so many riveting stories the movie people could make from the era.
It would fill in the gaps of what the schools are not teaching. And it is crucial that we never forget what happened.
P.S. I know... wishful thinking that Hollywood would ever do something beneficial for the world :(
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