Dec 112009
I’ve been seeing those commercials for the forthcoming History Channel special “The People Speak” for a while now. While I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to ’em, and didn’t know anything about it, there’s been something vaguely disconcerting about the commercials.
Turns out there was a good reason for the unease. It’s based on America-bashing Marxist historian Howard Zinn’s efforts to brainwash children.
Feh.
So if you watch, get ready for some Socialism.
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I’m not gonna see any of that. We dumped cable in 1996. Never felt I missed anything except for references to stuff like this.
Zinn won’t be with us long: he was born in 1922.
> I’m not gonna see any of that.
I flipped through the channels and came to it. I listened for a bit as someone read something about how illegal immigrants need to organize, and how someday they will be enough of a political force that politicians will be forced to do their bidding. Then it was followed by someone ranting about the AIDS crises, about how tragic it was that more attention & money weren’t being lavished on that.
In the first case… well, it came true, and our economy and future are imperiled as a result, and yet the writer seemed to want exactly that. In the second case, had AIDS been dealt with properly – quarantine of those infected – it would now be relegated to ancient history, and yet the writer *didn’t* seem to want exactly that.
That was enough for me.