[Peace-discuss] reply

[David Green]

For those of us who wished to take history seriously in school, I just wish we had been told that it was not being taken seriously. Then I would have known that I was on my own. Then again, history and political science are good pre-law majors, as a form of pre-indoctrination.
 
DG


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> From: ""E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"" <ewj at pigsqq.org>
>To: David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net> 
>Cc: Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> 
>Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 7:39 AM
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] reply
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>I had several years of history classes from the 4th grade to the 8th
grade
>then Amerikan History as a class in the 4th year of high school,
>and a course on Modern Western Civilization (an oxymoron?) as a college
>freshman that I resented ferociously.
>
>For a science and math major it was pretty dry stuff.
>
>They didnt expose us to the nasty underbelly of human existence.
>It would have warped our young minds.  
>Far better to lie to us.  Henry Ford was right.
>History is BUNK (BUllshit, No Kidding) the way
they taught it to us.
>
>Genocide and torture and mutilations and 
>slowly slicing and grinding people to a bloody itchy miserable death
>is part of war.  If you don't destroy a whole
>bunch of non-military stuff and kill a lot of
>kids, and disembowel pregnant women alive and 
>eat their babies for breakfast it ain't real war.
>
>Nothing has changed. Nothing.  
>The scale factor might be different but certainly
>not if one looks at it on a percentage basis.
>The shape factor is not any different.
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>I can't see any difference between what the French did around the world
>and what the Nazis did on any sort of barbarism scale.
>What the Nazis did to the Jews wasnt much different from what the 
>Jews did to their enemies and to one another.
>There aint much changed in the world from bashing someone
>to death by hitting them in the face with a rock to
>remote control video drones.
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>On 05/16/13 11:38, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" wrote: 
> I agree.
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>>It is a significant turn against Obama,
>>and thank you for sharing it.
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>>On 05/16/13 11:21, David Johnson wrote: 
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>>>"As
if War making was a good thing between or among consenting adults
>>>but Obot is a loser who doesn't do it right." 
>>>
>>>Wayne, 
>>>
>>>If
you know anything about Cornel West, you would know that he is very
anti-war and anti-empire. 
>>>He
is using the term in the common context usage, as in Nazi War
Criminals, emphasis on the criminal. 
>>>It
is a significant statement from such a prominent African American
activist and Professor. 
>>>
>>>David
J. 
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>>>
>>>  
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