Teaching Victimization Trains ... VICTIMS!
Channel: Majpalmer
Date: 21/01/2021

Let's say you are the commander-in-chief of the French Army. You want a well trained and effective military force. Would you drill into the heads of your soldiers the history of every French military defeat? Would you focus on the French defeats in the Franco-Prussian War and the campaign of 1940 that led to the French surrender? Or would you highlight French successes under Louis XIV, Napoleon I, and France in 1914-1918? I think the answer is obvious.
But ask that same question of the American education establishment. Do we focus on this country's successes, or its failures? 
I ask myself that question in this video. I've been fairly successful, given my background. But I learned nothing K-12 about anti-Catholicism, anti-Italian, or anti-Sicilian sentiment. Not until college did I get a hint of some of that. And not until I started teaching did I discover that Sicilians, like me, had been lynched over a century ago in the US. If such horror stories had been drilled into my head from the time I started school when I was 4, would I have been more or less successful in my life? I'm certain the latter would have been true. 
If my logic is correct, then we have been destroying generations of our children.