Right wing history
Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
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On a different note, is the curriculum for history classes in some American states restricted to learning about Hitler and the Nazis and 1938 and Hitler and Germany? It must be, because there are many right-wing fanatics whose entire understanding of the world is reduced in every instance to that sole historical event -- as though the world began in 1937, ended in 1945, and we just re-live that moment in time over and over and over:
Love war? You are Churchill, a noble warrior. Oppose war? You're Chamberlain, a vile appeaser. And everyone else is Hitler. That, more or less, composes the full scope of "thought" among this strain on the right.
(The full post is here.)
TM note: Greenwald left out a few articles of right-wing history: Joe McCarthy was right, there were commies everywhere; Richard Nixon was hounded from office by his enemies, not because of illegal break-ins; it was Ronald Reagan who won the Cold War, not 45 years of "Containment;" and liberals are soft on terror and hate America because they keep bringing up Bush's disastrous war and the Bill of Rights.
Salon.com
.... (excerpt)
On a different note, is the curriculum for history classes in some American states restricted to learning about Hitler and the Nazis and 1938 and Hitler and Germany? It must be, because there are many right-wing fanatics whose entire understanding of the world is reduced in every instance to that sole historical event -- as though the world began in 1937, ended in 1945, and we just re-live that moment in time over and over and over:
Love war? You are Churchill, a noble warrior. Oppose war? You're Chamberlain, a vile appeaser. And everyone else is Hitler. That, more or less, composes the full scope of "thought" among this strain on the right.
(The full post is here.)
TM note: Greenwald left out a few articles of right-wing history: Joe McCarthy was right, there were commies everywhere; Richard Nixon was hounded from office by his enemies, not because of illegal break-ins; it was Ronald Reagan who won the Cold War, not 45 years of "Containment;" and liberals are soft on terror and hate America because they keep bringing up Bush's disastrous war and the Bill of Rights.
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