lpetrich
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Trump Calls for ‘Patriotic Education’ to Defend American History From the Left - The New York Times
Why was it necessary to abolish slavery and secure civil rights if the US did not have a long history of oppression?
Let's look at the dates.
The civil-rights movement was necessary because of the failure of the North to support Southern blacks after the war -- after a decade, the North let Southern reactionaries bully and terrorize Southern blacks into submission and what was not much more than serfdom.
Defeating Communism? This makes me picture columns of US tanks rolling into Moscow. That never happened. Instead, Eastern European Communism collapsed and the remaining Communist countries have become in greater or lesser degree capitalist roaders, especially Communist China.
Defeating Fascism? That was provoked by Japan's attacking Pearl Harbor. Before that, there was a big America First movement, and some America Firsters were Nazi-lovers.
Equal?
List of countries by income equality - The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency - Most European countries, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea have a more equal income distribution.
Fair? Economic mobility - A Family Affair: Intergenerational Social Mobility across OECD Countries - Economic Mobility at inequality.stanford.edu - International Comparisons of Economic Mobility at the Brookings Institution - the US has much less intergenerational economic-status mobility than Canada or the Nordic countries. That means that rags-to-rags and riches-to-riches are much more common than rags-to-riches and riches-to-rags.
The US is high in GDP per capita: List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita - List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita - List of countries by GNI (PPP) per capita - but it is far from #1.
About the 1619 Project,
This is either grotesque historical illiteracy or else a big fat lie.
Why was it necessary to abolish slavery and secure civil rights if the US did not have a long history of oppression?
Let's look at the dates.
- First English colony: 1607
- First slaves imported: 1619
- First Continental Congress meeting: 1774
- The American Revolution: 1775 - 1783
- Articles of Confederation adopted: 1777 - 1781
- US Constitution composed and ratified: 1787 - 1788
- US Government starts operation: 1789
- The Civil War: 1861 - 1865
- The civil-rights movement: 1955 - 1965
The civil-rights movement was necessary because of the failure of the North to support Southern blacks after the war -- after a decade, the North let Southern reactionaries bully and terrorize Southern blacks into submission and what was not much more than serfdom.
Defeating Communism? This makes me picture columns of US tanks rolling into Moscow. That never happened. Instead, Eastern European Communism collapsed and the remaining Communist countries have become in greater or lesser degree capitalist roaders, especially Communist China.
Defeating Fascism? That was provoked by Japan's attacking Pearl Harbor. Before that, there was a big America First movement, and some America Firsters were Nazi-lovers.
Equal?
List of countries by income equality - The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency - Most European countries, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea have a more equal income distribution.Fair?
Economic mobility - A Family Affair: Intergenerational Social Mobility across OECD Countries - Economic Mobility at inequality.stanford.edu - International Comparisons of Economic Mobility at the Brookings Institution - the US has much less intergenerational economic-status mobility than Canada or the Nordic countries. That means that rags-to-rags and riches-to-riches are much more common than rags-to-riches and riches-to-rags.The US is high in GDP per capita:
List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita - List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita - List of countries by GNI (PPP) per capita - but it is far from #1.
