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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (8981)4/27/2005 6:05:28 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
LIES A TEACHER TOLD

Tim Blair

Teacher and former leftist Michael Lopez-Calderon recalls his life as a doctrinaire Chomskyite:

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I continued my “activism” as a high school social studies teacher, introducing bewildered students to Chomsky, and often relying on James E. Loewen’s ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me’, the now quintessential anti-American history textbook, replacing Zinn’s undocumented, cumbersome ‘A People’s History of the United States’. As a college student, I had been a willing victim of educational malpractice. Now, as a high school teacher, I occasionally engaged in educational malpractice and subjected unwitting adolescents to the Chomskian-Zinnian-Loewenian worldview ...

I pushed on, even to the extent of immersing myself in that most miserable and unrewarding of all Leftist causes – the Palestinian Cause. So deep did I fall into the illusion that enough rational Palestinian political leaders existed to pull off a viable, “democratic” Palestinian state, that I compromised my teaching position at a Jewish day school by publicly supporting the Palestinians’ right to resist with violence.
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That was written in October 2001, one month after Lopez-Calderon finally abandoned his leftist views. He is among many.

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