The Riots in Portland Started in Public School
This is the moment that America's teacher's colleges, and the public-school systems fed by them, have been working toward since the 1960s. That's when the "education schools began conditioning teachers to peddle impossible social and economic theories to captive human sponges in K-12 classrooms," as described here by Chuck Rogér:
[T]he "evidence-free" education school theory of "social justice" alleges that minority children learn best when encouraged to embrace grievances against middle class whites. Social justice–indoctrinated teachers instill resentment in "non-dominant" (minority) children and guilt in "dominant" (white) children. Judging by the abundance of guilt-ridden white Americans, the tactic is working its magic well.
It's even worse if you've been to college.
A 2017 poll suggested that a "majority of millennials would prefer to live in a socialist, communist or fascist nation rather than a capitalistic one." That makes slightly more sense when you see that only 33% of Millennials "were able to identify the correct definition of socialism."
Marion Smith, executive director of Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, blames this preference for totalitarian systems on the "widespread historical illiteracy in American society regarding socialism and the systemic failure of our education system to teach students about the genocide, destruction, and misery caused by communism since the Bolshevik Revolution one hundred years ago."
Again, none of this should come as news to conservatives. We revere history, and for decades we've been exercised by the left's ceaseless revisionist propaganda. It's proof of leftists' success that we've seen two generations of historical illiterates. Studies have shown that 74% of Americans over 65 could correctly answer most of ten multiple-choice questions on American history taken from the U.S. Citizenship Test, but only 19% of those under 45 could pass. Thirty-seven percent of test-takers believed that Benjamin Franklin invented the light bulb, "[t]welve percent incorrectly thought WWII General Dwight Eisenhower led troops in the Civil War," and two percent thought the cause of the Cold War was climate change. It helps explain why mobs think they're fighting for racial justice when they deface statues of Columbus, Lincoln, and the memorial to the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. |
