TEACHING AMERICANS TO HATE THEIR COUNTRY: THE PLAYBOOK OF THE LEFT !

By Thomas Sowell:

Many years ago, as a young man, I read a very interesting book about the rise of the Communists to power in China. In the last chapter, the author tried to explain why and how this had happened.

Among the factors he cited were the country’s educators. That struck me as odd, and not very plausible, at the time. But the passing years have made that seem less and less odd, and more and more plausible. Today, I see our own educators playing a similar role in creating a mindset that undermines American society.

Schools were once thought of as places where a society’s knowledge and experience were passed on to the younger generation. But, about a hundred years ago, professor John Dewey of Columbia University came up with a very different conception of education – one that has spread through American schools of education and even influenced education in countries overseas.

John Dewey saw the role of the teacher not as a transmitter of a society’s culture to the young, but as an agent of change – someone strategically placed, with an opportunity to condition students to want a different kind of society.

A century later, we are seeing schools across America indoctrinating students to believe in all sorts of politically correct notions. The history that is taught in too many of our schools is a history that emphasizes everything that has gone bad, or can be made to look bad, in America – and that gives little, if any, attention to the great achievements of this country.

If you think that is an exaggeration, get a copy of “A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn and read it. As someone who used to read translations of official Communist newspapers in the days of the Soviet Union, I know that those papers’ attempts to degrade the United States did not sink quite as low as Howard Zinn’s book.

That book has sold millions of copies, poisoning the minds of millions of students in schools and colleges against their own country. But this book is one of many things that enable teachers to think of themselves as “agents of change,” without having the slightest accountability for whether that change turns out to be for the better or for the worse – or, indeed, utterly catastrophic.

This misuse of schools to undermine one’s own society is not something confined to the United States or even to our own time. It is common in Western countries for educators, the media and the intelligentsia in general to single out Western civilization for special condemnation for sins that have been common to the human race, in all parts of the world, for thousands of years.

Meanwhile, all sorts of fictitious virtues are attributed to non-Western societies, and their worst crimes are often passed over in silence, or at least shrugged off by saying some such thing as “Who are we to judge?”

Even in the face of mortal dangers, political correctness forbids us to use words like “terrorist” when the approved euphemism is “militant.” Milder terms such as “illegal alien” likewise cannot pass the political correctness test, so it must be replaced by another euphemism, “undocumented worker.”

Some think that we must tiptoe around in our own country, lest some foreigners living here or visiting here be offended by the sight of an American flag or a Christmas tree in some institutions.

In France between the two World Wars, the teachers union decided that schools should replace patriotism with internationalism and pacifism. Books that told the story of the heroic defense of French soldiers against the German invaders at Verdun in 1916, despite suffering massive casualties, were replaced by books that spoke impartially about the suffering of all soldiers – both French and German – at Verdun.

Germany invaded France again in 1940, and this time the world was shocked when the French surrendered after just six weeks of fighting – especially since military experts expected France to win. But two decades of undermining French patriotism and morale had done their work.

American schools today are similarly undermining American society as one unworthy of defending, either domestically or internationally. If there were nuclear attacks on American cities, how long would it take for us to surrender, even if we had nuclear superiority – but were not as willing to die as our enemies were?


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Is this more garbage from Trendaway the Garbage Man?

Ya like the lefties are stock piling guns and ammo to overthrow the government!

Tell Thomas Sowell his Uncle Tom is calling....

No the lefties are against Americans owning guns; they support Obama's gun grab.. the American left fears an armed citizenry; they would do away with the 2nd Amendment....

No the lefties are against Americans owning guns; they support Obama's gun grab.. the American left fears an armed citizenry; they would do away with the 2nd Amendment.... Originally Posted by Whirlaway

That is the lie the righties tell themselves.

Saying so doesn't prove your point; why is it a lie ?

No the lefties are against Americans owning guns;. Originally Posted by Whirlaway

I am an American and I own guns! Quite a few of them, in fact!

I suppose that means I do not meet Trendaway's minimum criteria for being a "lefty."

Case closed! In the future, please refer to me as BT the Indy!

CC, can I change my handle from bigtex to BT the Indy?

Ben Shapiro

http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/201...ce-to-tyranny/

Pushing forward on the issue he's most passionate about, the host asked Shapiro to explain why he feels a civilian would need an assault weapon:
"They need them for the prospective possibility of resistance to tyranny," he explained.
"Where do you expect the tyranny to come from?" wondered Morgan.
"It could come from the United States," came Shapiro's answer.

Saying so doesn't prove your point; why is it a lie ? Originally Posted by Whirlaway

I'm a so called leftie and I don't want anybody taking my guns. Of course I do not own any machine guns eother. Nobody should IMHO.

I'm a so called leftie and I don't want anybody taking my guns. Of course I do not own any machine guns eother. Nobody should IMHO. Originally Posted by WTF

I don't own any machine guns either.

Perhaps owning a machine gun is what separates the Far Right Wing-Nuts from us Indy's!

I don't own any machine guns either.

Perhaps owning a machine gun is what separates the Far Right Wing-Nuts from us Indy's! Originally Posted by bigtex

Yea they want to over throw the government. That is the difference between the right and the left.

Actually, the government has already been overthrown by the corporations and banks, and their fellow travelers in the Democrat and Republican parties.

We want it back.

Great essay. Thomas Sowell is brilliant. He's one of the best voices for conservative thought in the country.

The left thinks long term. They know if they can indoctrinante an entire generation of young people into hating America and embracing socialism, they've won. That's why the left is so adamant about not allowing vouchers which would allow more children to attend private schools. Government schools are the most powerful tool the socialists have.

Sowell wrote a book that explains the foundation of liberal thought and gives an insight into what gives liberals such determination to advance their agenda; it's called "The Quest for Cosmic Justice." The basic premise of the book is that liberals want to correct every inequity in life. Liberals want everyone to be equal. They see life as unfair and they think the proper role of the government is to somehow make it fair. In short, Sowell says liberals want the government to provide what he calls cosmic justice, the thing that only God can provide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIv4L9M1ECU

http://www.tsowell.com/spquestc.html

Actually, the government has already been overthrown by the corporations and banks, and their fellow travelers in the Democrat and Republican parties.

. Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

Agreed.

We want it back. Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

By armed revolt?

Come on man!

People like Thomas Sowell divert attention from exactly wtf you pointed out. It is not a left vs right thing like folks in power want you to believe. Thomas Sowell is an Uncle Tom for the right. There are just as many on the left.

Whirly gets caught up in this right vs left thing all the while both parties power people are laughing all the way to the bank.

cosmic justice, the thing that only God can provide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIv4L9M1ECU

http://www.tsowell.com/spquestc.html Originally Posted by joe bloe

Prove that God can provide that.

Prove there is a God.

I will gladly admit that I can not disprove it but I also can not disprove Santa.