Mr. Pitts proposes to retain some rather steamy
anti-patriotic propaganda along with the usual patriotic stuff comprising parts
of what our schools teach about US history.
He begins,
This is a tale of two countries.
The first country was
built on a radical new promise of human equality and a guarantee of the right
to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
That country made it
possible for even those born in the humblest and most meager circumstances to
climb to the pinnacle of prosperity and achievement.
It helped save the
world in a great global conflagration, fed and rebuilt the devastated nations
of Europe, planted the first footprints on another world.
The second country was
built on the uncompensated labor of human beings owned from birth till death by
other human beings.
That country committed
genocide against its indigenous people, fabricated a war in order to snatch
territory belonging to its neighbor, put its own citizens in concentration
camps.
And it practiced the
“science” of eugenics with such enthusiasm that it inspired advocates of
mandatory sterilization and racial purity all over the world. One was an
obscure German politician named Adolf Hitler.
Obviously, the first
of those countries is America. But the second is, too.
But neither country is America.
The description of the first is patriotic bilge, from the
promise that did not exist to the fiction of saving the world.
The purpose of patriotic bilge is to make proud and well-disciplined citizens
and willing soldiers.
The second is liberal anti-patriotic propaganda and its purposes are
more complex, including undermining the pride and discipline of citizens and the willingness
of soldiers and beating up whites, using the power of the state to pummel them on
behalf of non-whites even in the public schools.
The purpose, in other words, is much the same as that of “sensitivity
training,” which again is much the same as that of the re-education camps run
by communist thought police in various unfortunate countries.
The only surprise, I suppose, if it is one, is that Mr. Pitts left out any charges of theocracy, homophobia, or phallocracy, while emphasizing in his second description messages of racial grievance directed at white folks.
Of course it is true that black African slaves captured and
sold by black Africans in Africa were owned by Americans, and of course used
for labor in parts of the country for some purposes.
But their labor was very far from achieving anything so
grand as building the county.
(Did no one else do anything, then?)
The Spanish conquerors did otherwise in Cuba, but white
American settlers did not wipe out the Indians or even, so far as I know, any
individual tribe, though some Indian tribes were in fact wiped out, quite deliberately,
by other Indian tribes, at various times both before and after the whites began
to arrive in the New World.
As for the fabricated war, I suppose that would be the
Mexican War.
The “fabrication” was the casus belli; you could look it up.
Angry about that war, is he? Ashamed? He should probably get
over it and move on.
(Indians fought wars among themselves for plunder, slaves,
conquest, and territory all the time, by the way.)
As for the internment of the Nisei, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot,
and many others including such heroes of the left as Mao did much worse to far
more of their own citizens, though the salient feature of the Nisei in this litany of blame is not really their citizenship but their race.
All the same, a little perspective, please.
And, finally, as for the argumentum
ad Hitlerum of the last sentence, I think there is no need to say anything
about that.
As for the role of truth in the propaganda of blame, see these.
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