Forum Post: Major History Lie Clarified
Posted 11 years ago on July 10, 2013, 10:31 a.m. EST by Phanya2011
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http://www.upworthy.com/were-teaching-kids-history-but-were-leaving-this-entire-bit-out-2?g=2&c=ufb1
Did anyone else see this talk?
Things are always being left out of taught history. After all, race-based slavery didn't begin with the English colonies, it had already existed in Portugal with Papal sanction decades before Colombus had gotten lost on his way to Japan.
And though the Confederacy may have fought to maintain slavery, the Union certainly didn't begin the war fighting to end it. The Proclamation of Emancipation had been used as a threat to end slavery only for those states that had chosen to retain their independence from the Union. It had no bearing on Union slave states, which as a consequence of being on the winning side, had slavery ended for them by legislation only after it had been forcibly brought to an end in the South. Thus, slavery had actually ended in the South before it had ended in the North. And even then, lethally racist riots against the draft had broken out in the North in opposition to the war. The headline of one Pennsylvania paper had read "Willing to fight for Uncle Sam but not for Uncle Sambo". A national report in 1860 is said to have indicated that probably no more than 2% of Northerners would have voted to abolish slavery. During the war, what should have been considered to have been people liberated from slavery were nevertheless legally regarded as being contraband.
Much is always being left out of taught history.
True; so why teach it at all? It seems only to perpetuate dysfunctional attitudes.
Official history has never been taught to inform, only to indoctrinate.
That's a great talk, Phanya. Divide-and-conquer, an age-old tactic. And as LeoYo says below, official history has never been taught to inform, only to indoctrinate. Consider the lie still told to this day on any 'history' channel in regards to the dropping of atomic weapons on Japan, that it was to "save a million lives:"
http://www.filmsforaction.org/news/the_real_reason_america_used_nuclear_weapons_against_japan_it_was_not_to_end_the_war_or_save_lives/
The more things change the more they stay the same? GREED. These days though it is silently ( ? ) promoted as Middle class over the lower class ( can't mention lower class - nope - those are poor people ). Yep this talk sounds like business today ( fortune 5oo or similar ) AND actually it is the wealthy against every one - though they play us off of each-other as best they can. PEOPLE if you have not noticed the "middle" class is shrinking - and NO it is not because more are becoming wealthy - NOPE - it is because so many are becoming ( unmentionable ) lower class - POOR.
http://www.upworthy.com/were-teaching-kids-history-but-were-leaving-this-entire-bit-out-2?g=2&c=ufb1
Well, one thing for sure: that would be the smartest, most proficient poor class in the history of the poor.
The newly descended? Absolutely no reason for them to be there other than the repercussions of rampant greed.
I do not dispute that it is rampant greed that got us here. Apparently we changed from worshiping the golden calf to worshiping the bronze bull. I really believe that the economy will crash -- it is resting on air and b.s. anyway -- and people who would otherwise be poor will have to do what they always do -- help each other and work through it.
Wallstreet is dealing on money that does not exist - might possibly exist over time ( maturation ) if the product had been solid. So yeah - I also believe that we are due for the crash. It may begin when the gov stops printing money to inject into the market.
It isn't left out entirely. It is usually taught with the first law in Mass. Depending on your location you also have the additional option of taking a course that deals with discrimination/diversity which deals with the fact that racism was intentionally via the same law.
At what level are these options offered? Most of my programming occurred in the first 10 years of school.
Middle school and high school. I find your "programming" unfortunate. If your parents were more liberal mayhap there would have been more opportunity for learning.
Single mother, two kids, Southern Texas, 50's. I learned to read and write and very solid basic math; the conventional wisdom all around me has always been a distorted view. Nothing to do with her liberal or conservative bias; much more to do with the times and finances.
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