[balrog666]

Bumpity-Bumpity-Boo.

[denydenydeny]

A wonderful post. I will be forwarding this to a lot of people.

[Budge]

Priceless!

[BeAllYouCanBe]

1918-1939 AD. Fascism threatens bright promise of Bolshevism.

No matter how much evidence is presented about the failure of Marxism/Communism the true feelings of academia is that communism has never been given a fair chance here on planet earth. Perhaps as you point out were are all programmed at an early age in white male dominance, sexism and racism and you must include homophobia in your list. If only Communism was done right you'll see that "true-Marxism" is the best system we would all be living in a utopia.

My son was in a state training camp (read state university) in the late 90's and his professor in World Civilization was more a Marxist preacher/evangelist than a teacher. Sadly, as you point out the brainwashing continues and the left loves their revisionist history.

The only good thing is that most kids realize it is propaganda and blow off the left-winged programming.

[TxBec]

ping.

[Publius6961]

This post needs to be bumped continuously, since there is so much food for thought in it.

My favorite phrase is High civilizations flourish on other continents; unfortunately, they neglect to leave any written records or impressive artifacts... I would merely add impressive artifacts unambiguous as to their provenance. Indeed these "sophisticated high civilizations" completely neglected writing, an indispensable ingredient of every other high civilization in the universe.

I was just yesterday pondering another current ingredient of PC history, the role that popular fiction plays in the establishment of history centuries hence.
I was watching the movie "Air Force One" for the umpteenth time, a movie I have always enjoyed, entertaining, engaging and full of action; but a strange thing happened this time: I became aware of the PC ingredients subtly woven throughout, a fiction of such proportions that it turned the movie into a comedy for me. The previous suspensions of disbelief did not mask the fact this time.

I will leave it to the readers to discover these "PC" gems in the movie, and perhaps find the ones I missed. I was able to notice 4 major ones. Heaven only knows how many minor ones were missed.

And there is no doubt in my mind that the same mentality that glorifies patently fake "high civilizations" today will similarly glorify the achievements so clearly defined in a movie which, of course, can be assumed accurately to reflect the actual social conditions of the period.

I fear for my great great great grandchildren...

[x]

It's true enough, I suppose, but would have been funnier or truer years ago. PC and multiculturalism are already at least a decade old. You still find such blights in schools and colleges but most thinking people take PC and multiculturalism as bad jokes. Even anti-PC has something of the same musty feeling to it. Some recent thinking about non-western civilizations will be found valid and accepted and contribute to our knowledge. But the woolly-headed speculation and wild claims of recent years will be consigned to the dust bin.

Stromberg also shows too much of his Rockwellite tendencies. Learning about slavery packs a shock at first. Then one learns more about slavery's prominence and persistence in history and sees it in perspective as an enduring institution and way of organizing society. In the end, though, one still ought to be able to feel something of the original shock, if one retains a feeling for justice. Future generations will marvel at our Rockwellistas, libertarians who take slavery in stride.

[sweetliberty]

You know, there was a time when I thought just keeping my kid out of public school was enough. I never really thought that colleges needed to be screened as carefully as schools. It seems rather obvious now.