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March 9, 2006
Australian Textbook Can't Tell Crusaders from Terrorists
It isn't only in the USA that public schools force-feed the next generation a steady diet of pernicious moonbattery. In Australia, a widely used high school textbook describes the Crusaders as terrorists, the moral equivalent of the monsters currently blowing up little kids with car bombs in Iraq.
A small sample from Humanities Alive 2:
Those who destroyed the World Trade Center are regarded as terrorists. Might it be fair to say that Crusaders who attacked the Muslim inhabitants of Jerusalem were also terrorists?
Barry Collett, a specialist in medieval history from Melbourne University, has criticized the textbook as "historically inaccurate" and "grossly misleading." As Collett points out:
The Crusaders felt they were intervening to stop the bloodshed that was already going on. I would tend to compare them more with Australian troops intervening in East Timor.
But anti-Western propagandizing counts for much more than factual accuracy among educrats. No doubt future generations of Australian kids will learn to feel guilty about the horrendous atrocities their forefathers inflicted on East Timor.
Hat tip: Byron
Posted by Van Helsing at March 9, 2006 9:59 PM
Comments
My only hope now is that history will judge us, and the Crusades, truthfully. If the left has it's way, all REAL textbooks, and that includes data on cd, internet, pc, etc., will be completely destroyed in a Hitler-esque frenzy of bookburning, and the only information left on the planet will tell the tale from their warped point of view.
I only hope the truth will somehow survive our coming holocaust of leftist, revisionist, purification from all knowledge that does not fit their agenda.
Posted by: Joe Schmoe at March 10, 2006 1:01 AM
Won't happen, Joe. Too many of us out here now. The far left msm knows this--their control over information flow is seriously declining. And it shall NEVER be the same again.
Posted by: nikko at March 10, 2006 8:05 AM
Nikko,
I sure hope you're right, but Schmoe has a good point. I've often thought about what would happen if the lefties had absolute control. Judging by our college campuses, it worries me.
They destroy newspapers that they find offensive, they allow muslims to censor their newspapers for offensive content while routinely bashing conservatives and Christians, they teach anti-American rhetoric, they try to only allow fellow lefties to teach, and they even try to expel students who don't think like them.
Since the next generation is being trained at these institutions, it seems logical that within 20 years they will begin outlawing offensive speech, just like they do on college campuses now.
They're already starting to side with historical revisionists and holocaust deniers. Many of them, in an act of appeasement to muslims, would have no problem with destroying textbooks that don't teach their way.
New Jersey is considering a law to make anonymous internet posts illegal. In this way they can identify anyone who says anything they don't like. The internet, the last, greatest bastion of free speech, could easily be monitored and used to the advantage of anyone in power. And since the left is well known for wanting to punish those who disagree with them, I can see what's coming.
Dog
Posted by: Rude Dog at March 10, 2006 12:29 PM
Dog--I went to one of those far-left universities (The University of Texas at Austin)--graduated 1981 BBA Finance. While most of my business profs were very good, some of the others were real whackos. It did not affect me one bit. If anything, made me stick to my core values and beliefs. I'm guessing most other students have the same experiences.
Posted by: nikko at March 10, 2006 12:44 PM
1981 was a long time ago. I graduated in '87, and it wasn't that bad for me either. But I know it's much worse now. I have nieces and a nephew who have just graduated. They have absolutely no idea why we "invaded" Afghanistan, but they say that we are "so arrogant" for doing it. They have absolutely no idea what the approval ratings were for past presidents, but they are so sure that Bush is the worst president ever. They just assume all these evil things about America are true, their profs told them so.
I think we are growing a generation of know-nothings who will eventually use their powers of unintelligence to end a lot of the freedoms we have.
Every few years there are fewer and fewer people at the university level who are willing or able to speak up for the right. Simply the fact that there are so many people throughout the world who adamantly believe that communism is a good thing and capitalism and democracy are bad, I know it can happen here. We're not immune to that kind of influence.
However I could be wrong, they could all end up bus drivers and waitresses and leave the politics and legislation to those with a little more sense.
Posted by: RockemSockem at March 10, 2006 1:45 PM
People seem confused as to what America is. We are not a democracy, we are a republic with socialistic tendencies. Captilism is not a political stance, it is a economic system. We are not true captalists, we have many laws that put limitations on capatalism. Unchecked capatalism can be a very bad thing, thats why we have laws to protect us from it. This black and white approach to politics and economics that so many people have is just plain silly.
Any government or economic system can be both good or bad depending on how it is executed. If you really think any country has lived up to the ideal of democracy or communism your are sorely mistaken . I have been in the college arena for awhile and I can tell you there are no shortage of people on any side of the debate about what systems work the best. Thats what makes America great. I feel sorry for people who find the need to eliminate certain trains of thought. If anything that mentalility will be our undoing.
Posted by: Reed Harding at March 17, 2006 3:36 AM
