I just finished talking to a man I don't know.
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I just finished talking to a man I don't know.
He's a Goodwill volunteer.
He thinks the Iran war is justified because "if they get nuclear weapons, they're just crazy enough to fire one."
I said, "Well, our nation is the only one that's been crazy enough to do that so far."
He looked at me blankly.
Further conversation revealed that this man, who is in his late 40s or early 50s, did not know about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I was too floored to do more than suggest researching the history.
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@courtcan My sister b. Late 60s recently said also that the war was justified because she saw a video of Iranian men burning the American flag and calling for death to America and I thought, what? they have been doing that for generations. The difference is that I remember warm our living room was before the oil crisis in the 1970s. What can we do against the stratifying of generations now that everyone has a label and an in-group with which to identify?
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Yes, "Ignorant people are damned easy to hook by the nose and lead to the slaughter."
For sixty years, they've been applying this goal to education in America, wherever the cultists have been able to take power. So now we have three generations of helplessly ignorant people deciding who will hook them by the nose.
Thanks for the bold statements of truth.
@oldclumsy_nowmad @courtcan Hopelessly ignorant.
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I just finished talking to a man I don't know.
He's a Goodwill volunteer.
He thinks the Iran war is justified because "if they get nuclear weapons, they're just crazy enough to fire one."
I said, "Well, our nation is the only one that's been crazy enough to do that so far."
He looked at me blankly.
Further conversation revealed that this man, who is in his late 40s or early 50s, did not know about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I was too floored to do more than suggest researching the history.
1
@courtcan
I see the exact samething every day. It doesnt help that last summer Terrist Trump deciced that 771,000 people are drug users, drunks or mentaly ill. Who am I talking about? Homeless people. Having named us, let #TheSilenceContinues begin. -
@courtcan I mean... you don't even need book learnin' to know that, I'm the same age group and I'm pretty sure we didn't cover it in high school history but damn it, I've seen movies! I've been on the Internet! There used to be documentaries about it on TV when I got home from school, it was pretty difficult to NOT hear about this from somewhere!
@uastronomer @courtcan I had so much fun watching PBS growing up. There was always something interesting for me to watch in the afternoons.
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GET IT TOGETHER, HUMANS. Especially, at this moment, humans of the Oklahoman variety!
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#ignorance
#education
#history
#WWII
#PearlHarbor
#Hiroshima
#Nagasaki
#OklahomaEducation
#EDUCATE
#RESIST@courtcan There is a very good reason why, in my undergrad-level International Business class, when hostilities broke out,I spent about twenty minutes going over the history of international relations with Iran, starting with The Great Game, continuing on with Mossadegh and the coup that gave the Shah near-absolute power, to the Islamic Revolution and the Hostage Crisis, to the uneasy detente that lasted until recently, to the effects of the blockade. I do this to show that there’s trauma on both sides, to show that America’s hands are not clean in this, and to show that the blockade was completely foreseeable.
Because chances are, before that moment, those students probably had no clue of the history behind all of this. Where would they have learned it?
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I just finished talking to a man I don't know.
He's a Goodwill volunteer.
He thinks the Iran war is justified because "if they get nuclear weapons, they're just crazy enough to fire one."
I said, "Well, our nation is the only one that's been crazy enough to do that so far."
He looked at me blankly.
Further conversation revealed that this man, who is in his late 40s or early 50s, did not know about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I was too floored to do more than suggest researching the history.
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@courtcan which means he also doesn’t know about the Holocaust.
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@courtcan There is a very good reason why, in my undergrad-level International Business class, when hostilities broke out,I spent about twenty minutes going over the history of international relations with Iran, starting with The Great Game, continuing on with Mossadegh and the coup that gave the Shah near-absolute power, to the Islamic Revolution and the Hostage Crisis, to the uneasy detente that lasted until recently, to the effects of the blockade. I do this to show that there’s trauma on both sides, to show that America’s hands are not clean in this, and to show that the blockade was completely foreseeable.
Because chances are, before that moment, those students probably had no clue of the history behind all of this. Where would they have learned it?
@NicolaElle @courtcan well 11 to 13 year old me experiencing the hostage crisis certainly knew nothing about Mossadegh until much later.
Not knowing who the combatants were in WW2, though? I mean, there MOVIES about this.
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I just finished talking to a man I don't know.
He's a Goodwill volunteer.
He thinks the Iran war is justified because "if they get nuclear weapons, they're just crazy enough to fire one."
I said, "Well, our nation is the only one that's been crazy enough to do that so far."
He looked at me blankly.
Further conversation revealed that this man, who is in his late 40s or early 50s, did not know about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I was too floored to do more than suggest researching the history.
1
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I just finished talking to a man I don't know.
He's a Goodwill volunteer.
He thinks the Iran war is justified because "if they get nuclear weapons, they're just crazy enough to fire one."
I said, "Well, our nation is the only one that's been crazy enough to do that so far."
He looked at me blankly.
Further conversation revealed that this man, who is in his late 40s or early 50s, did not know about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I was too floored to do more than suggest researching the history.
1
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I just finished talking to a man I don't know.
He's a Goodwill volunteer.
He thinks the Iran war is justified because "if they get nuclear weapons, they're just crazy enough to fire one."
I said, "Well, our nation is the only one that's been crazy enough to do that so far."
He looked at me blankly.
Further conversation revealed that this man, who is in his late 40s or early 50s, did not know about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I was too floored to do more than suggest researching the history.
1
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This is a perfect example of what happens when your leaders are concerned with putting a Bible in every classroom and stripping school library shelves of books about penguins with two daddies -- instead of being concerned with actually *EDUCATING*.
Last I checked, Oklahoma is still dead last in quality of education nation-wide. And our leaders, despite their words to the contrary, like it that way.
Ignorant people are damned easy to hook by the nose and lead to the slaughter.
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Just a quick note to any Americans thinking of moving to Canada: If you are considering moving to SK, joining an evangelical church and voting for the Sask party, please don't.
We already have a surplus.
Mind you, if you are a MAGA, you will feel right at home. In Alberta, too.
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