https://freedomoutpost.com/liberal-professor-dumbing-america-began-public-education/The America of which you speak existed, to a large extent, only in your imagination.
Abuses in the 50's, yes, a land of unmitigated hatred and evil, Absolutely not!
McCarthy, by the way, was right, and records found and released decades ago by Russia after the Soviet Union dissolved, proved that was so.
https://humanevents.com/2014/08/15/bogie-and-bacall-and-hollywoods-c*******ts/In a recent conversation with conservative philosopher (and educator) Christina Hoff Sommers, liberal, feminist (in the classic sense) college professor Camille Paglia reveals with blunt honesty and perceptive commentary that many of our current problems on the college campus really began in public elementary and secondary schools.
“It’s really started at the level of public school education. I’ve been teaching now for 46 years as a classroom teacher, and I have felt the slow devolution of the quality of public school education in the classroom.”
Paglia argues that the vast majority of today’s college students have no sense of history, no sense of geography, and no understanding of how things work or why they are the way they are.
“What has happened is these young people now getting to college have no sense of history – of any kind!
No sense of history.
No world geography.
No sense of the violence and the barbarities of history.
So, they think that the whole world has always been like this, a kind of nice, comfortable world where you can go to the store and get orange juice and milk, and you can turn on the water and the hot water comes out.
They have no sense wh**ever of the destruction, of the great civilizations that rose and fell, and so on – and how arrogant people get when they’re in a comfortable civilization.
They now have been taught to look around them to see defects in America – which is the freest country in the history of the world – and to feel that somehow America is the source of all evil in the universe, and it’s because they’ve never been exposed to the actual evil of the history of humanity.
They know nothing!”
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You seem to have forgotten that b****s weren't free nor were any minorities. The American you are talking about was still one governed by r****m, misogamy, and hatred for anyone who dared to think for themselves or didn't have white skin. This was the period of McCarthyism and hatred of any ideology that wasn't backward leaning RW conservatism. We saw one of our greatest heroes, Robert Oppenheimer, and a man who's work saved this country destroyed simply because he, along with a girlfriend attended a rally for the C*******t party while they were in college. That he, long ago moved onto different women and that he never again attended any c*******t function mattered not as he was destroyed for being a c*******t sympathizer by those who were governed through fear and ignorance and who they themselves had nothing to offer this country.
This might have been a wonderful time if you were a right-wing sympathizer but you could just as easily see your entire lifes work destroyed simply because of the hatred of those governed by the ignorance and fear that was sweeping through the country during that period and time.
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