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>> ANA: Hundreds of students are protesting in Colorado after a very conservative school board in Jefferson County
has proposed a complete change in the way that history classes are taught within the school district.
Now, what they essentially want to do is white wash history in order to make America seem much better than it really is
and maybe downplay a few of our civil rights, civil liberties,
scuffles that we've had in the past.
So let me give you some examples.
This is according to Fox News, actually.
So this is how they reported the story.
Fascinating.
So just to emphasize what I found most interesting in this proposal is --
>> That's from Kim Jong-il, right?
Is that who that from?
Is that from North Korea?
>> ANA: Might as well be.
>> You mentioned 1984.
This is literally what the government was pushing for in their education system.
Respect for authority, no social unrest. Don't contribute to any of that.
>> So these people read 1984, not as a shocker to beware of the future.
>> ANA: It's a guide book.
>> It's a how-to.
This is their guide book on how to run a society.
George Orwell.
>> ANA: How amazing is this in terms of being a classic case of projection, right?
Any time you hear any type of criticism from conservatives about our public education system,
it's always about how it indoctrinates our youth.
It's a tool for indoctrination.
What the *** do they think they're doing over there?
They're indoctrinating youth.
Don't question authority?
Are you kidding me right now?
That's the number one problem in the country right now.
We don't question authority.
We sit back while we allow the NSA to collect all this is information on us indiscriminately.
There's a lack of political activism.
Yes, there was occupy -- yes, there was the recent protest in New York about climate change.
But when you look at the grand scheme of things, we are politically apathetic right?
And you guys want to push that further.
You want to whitewash history to make it seem as though we haven't done terrible freaking things in the past,
including in the last decade, especially, right?
I mean, it's ridiculous.
And it's not only projection.
It's not only whitewashing history.
It's dumbing down America, and that's exactly what conservative want,
because those in appear will remain in power as long as we all shut our mouths and let them do whatever
the hell they want to do.
All started in Texas.
They started revising books in Texas.
School boards in that very conservative state decided,
hey, you know what?
Why don't we do away with civil rights leaders, like Cesar Chavez.
We don't need to teach the youth about that.
Why not?
Why don't you want to?
They want to do away with Thurgood Marshall.
Why is that?
>> More room for Scalia.
>> ANA: It's ridiculous.
>> They're acting as if the reason we have AP advanced history is to produce good citizens.
That's not.
Maybe that's one of the reasons we have public education in the first place.
But that's not what AP advanced history is for.
it's supposed to teach you about history.
And I've got news for the conservatives.
Is you've alluded to, we've done a lot of terrible ***.
From the beginning, the founding of America, I mean look at the campaigns against Native Americans
throughout the country, and in particular against Florida.
Civil rights abuses, Jim Crow, slavery.
Just the campaigns -- like how we establish Hawaii, how we took over Hawaii.
I mean, all of it.
Like, there's no reason you shouldn't learn about that.
I have read the people's history of the United States.
I know about at least the things that were documented in that.
And I still love America.
I want to live in America.
It doesn't make me not support America anymore.
It only makes me want to make America better than it is.
But they can't accept that.
They can't accept the shades of gray, or the cognitive dissonance in loving something that
you also know is inherently flawed.
>> Johnny, why do you hate America?
>> Probably because of all the things I've learned about it.
I'm ruined now.
>> You know history has a liberal bias?
You know that, right?
But that's the problem.
And that's what the ring wing has been effective in doing,
is they've discredited any information or any news outlets that don't line up with their ideology.
So what they have literally done is the accurate information is now the advisary of the right.
So when they talk about the liberal news media, they talk about people who might accurately report a fact
once in a while that goes against their conservative narrative that Ronald Reagan never raised taxes and kids
can't get pregnant if you don't tell them about sex.
So that's their whole thing.
And this is another example of that.
If you just pretend and whitewash and just close your eyes as hard as possible and don't look,
it doesn't exist.
And we can have this utopia.
So they always they that lefties, they want to live in this fantasy land, right?
Lefties want equal -- that's not how the real world works.
They -- again, projection.
They do it in spades.
They always want to create this pretend reality that doesn't exist where Barack Obama's not a corporatist
but some kind of a Marxist socialist, where revolution and questioning authority is bad in America,
which is a country built out of revolution
>> ANA: Which is so funny coming from conservatives that have this extreme distrust of government, right?
Don't question authority, but government is evil and it should be small.
It's a little interesting.
>> Respect authority, but if you salute with a coffee cup in your hands,
we're gonna grill your ***.
>> ANA: I just don't get it.
And it's not just history.
They do the exact same thing with science classes.
Oh, these science classes indoctrinate our youth.
We need to do away with science that's evidence-based and instead replace it with creationism.
Get out of here with this ***.
Now, this has been a proposal.
Unfortunately, it's a five member board.
Three of the members of conservative.
Two of the members are liberal and they're against it.
But, I mean, if they actually do vote on this, which is what they're planning on doing next week,
the conservatives are in favor of it.
They will pass this type of change to their history classes.
And the students are upset about it.
That's why hundreds of them are out there protesting against it.
And I give them a lot of credit for doing so.
Fight for your education, man.
Because these *** holes want to take it away from you.