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Illegal aliens are a drag on the economy in all western countries. In Germany, for example, 60% of the welfare payments in the entire country go to illegal alien "asylum seekers". If countries would cut off the welfare, they would eliminate a lot of the "pull" factor for illegal aliens.

Commented: Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 @ 7:35 pm By: borderhawk

Having personally visited quite a few British historical museums in London and elsewhere, including the British Museum and the Imperial War Museum in London, and the Historic Ships at Portsmouth, I noted very little difference in the presentations regarding the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 where we were on opposite sides.

One of the very few nuisances was when visiting the National Museum of the Royal Navy at Hartlepool, England (where an original frigate from the War of 1812 period is on display), one factor that I have never seen mentioned in the US was the difference in construction and armament standards between the European frigates of the period and the class of super frigates like Constitution which were build and armed to ship-of-the-line standards although their number and arrangement of guns still classified them technically as frigates. The US navy at the time had no ships-of-the-line so they built a few of these super frigates. I have also visited US museums, including visiting USS Constitution in Boston. American accounts of Constitution's battles do not deny this, but they just don't mention it. That is the only very minor difference I have seen in accounts of those wars between British and American accounts at museums.

What you describe about university history courses is, unfortunately, a rarity these days. Heck, it was a rarity when I took history courses as an undergraduate in the 1970s. Some are worse than others but universities today tend to indoctrinate rather than educate, and that is fast becoming a problem in public schools as well. A poll last year showed that 71% of public school parents in NC were concerned about political indoctrination of their children in the public schools.

I doubt there are many public schools today, even in the South that teach students both the Southern and Northern perspective on the War Between the States. That is one of those areas of slanted history, historically based on politics. When I was in school, we aat least got the southern perspective in our state history class, but in US history it was strictly the northern version.

Commented: Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 @ 5:04 pm By: John Steed

And I will add, automatically disqualifying a person from a job is an "ism". Giving a person a chance to show they can do it is the opposite.
Therefore DEI is the opposite of any "ism" you care to discuss.

Commented: Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 @ 3:00 pm By: Big Bob

Only to the extent that it would be rare to find one FAA air traffic controller applicant who checks all those boxes, but it would not be uncommon to check two or three or even four. How are some of these categories even going to function as an air traffic controller? A blind controller who can't see situations out the control tower windows or see the sweep of the radar screen? A deaf controller who cannot hear the radio communications with pilots? And how is someone with a severe intellectual disability or a psychiatric disorder going to appropriately comprehend what is going on? DEI categories like that endanger the flying public. There have already been some near misses, so how long until people die from these insane DEI policies at the Biden FAA?

Commented: Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 @ 10:48 am By: Rino Hunter

JS - Yeah, you've hit the nail on the head. Objectivity seems to be virtually unknown to the "woke." The "woke" one on this thread constantly does all the things he accuses others of doing.

He makes judgements and even puts words in the mouths of others to fit his narrative, so it conforms to his assumptions. He brings race into everything. It's kind of a flip side to the white racism of years gone by and just as nauseous. I'm no psychiatrist, but it is kind of like him becoming the bad thing he heard about. There is no need to go on with all the examples throughout these pages. They are many and are there for all to see.

The thing that is relevant is that there are a number of people every bit as confused (or whatever) as the example on this thread. Put them together with the people responsible for the cultural plunder, like this West Point example, and we have a dangerous situation in our country. At a time like this it is important for sane people of good will to step forward.

Commented: Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 @ 10:13 am By: Van Zant

JS - you clearly agree with CV. You have a right to be wrong.

For a moment, let's talk objectivity - if you can, please explain what that looks like as it applies to human history. The implication is a right and wrong interpretation of human events.

Sure some facts are somewhat objective.. Example: The American Revolution did indeed happen. However, the how, why, when and significants of, all change depending on who you ask. If you only ask decedents of white Europeans, you only get one perspective.

And that isn't history.

Commented: Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 @ 9:57 am By: Big Bob

Actually van ZANt, he didn't. Why?
He views, (to use his term) 'objective history", through his lens and his experience. Anything outside his experience he deems slanted history or propaganda.

In America, white people do this all time. they often assume their version of "history" is objective (it isn't) and therefore more true and relevant than the historical perspectives of other people and cultures (they aren't).
For that to be true, it would mean we all experience the world in the exact same way. Utter nonsense, right?

CV has a right to his world view. We all do. The question is, should we consider history from more than one point of view.? Cv says no. I say yes. That, in a nut shell is why his explanation is piss poor.

Now if you believe it's possible to have a monopoly on the truth, as CV does, it offers the comfort of a safe space to marginalize a large segment of the population. What gives anyone the right to do that?

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 10:58 pm By: Big Bob

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Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 6:57 pm By: Virginia Hamlin

CV did a real good job of explaining the way history is approached by people and societies. That used to be taught in University History Department graduate courses (don't know about these days of wokeness).

A good number of commenters on this thread have displayed a strong background and understanding of history. With all due respect, the far-left troll is a bit over his head here. To his credit, he is trying. I suspect he could learn a great deal from this experience if he weren't such an idealogue. Fanatics often times are hindered by their zealotry in the pursuit of learning. Hate is also an unfortunate obstacle. Passion is good. Hate is poison.

It is too bad what is happening at West Point. A healthy society builds on its history and tradition. These days we are not a healthy society, and these types of things are indicative of our decline. If we do not rebound, I hate to think of what may become of us.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 8:38 pm By: Van Zant

CV fails to see that History is told through a lens.

Example: Lets say two people want to learn about the Vietnam war.
One American living in the US
One Vietnamese living in Ho Chi Minh City
Does any one think these two will learn the same history of events and/or lessons from that war?
Same war.
But 2 perspectives.

Is one right, and the other wrong. No
Are both perspectives worth hearing about? Yes.

Clear as a bell.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 2:30 pm By: Big Bob

So, a total of $4 Billion dollars we don't have and will have to borrow goes to beinging in migrants we don't need and particularly in the case of the Gazans, should not want. That does not include all the resettlement benefits that will be lavished on those Gazan migrants at taxpayer expense. These provisions of that bill are a betrayal of the American taxpayer, and Mike Johnson has shown himself to be little more than a pathetic pawn of the big spending Democrats. He is worse than shifty McCarthy.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 1:28 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Again your take away is has got you twisted all up. You favor only white history and resent any other perspective.

There are many others stories out there. We should be willing to hear them.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 11:55 am By: Big Bob

Bobbie never seems to let us forget that he hates whites and males, especially white males, and even more so if they are straight white males or Christian white males. That is the mark of today's "woke" brand of racism.

I would think a portrayal of Robert E. Lee, a man who wrote in 1859 that "slavery is an institution of moral and political evil" and who freed the hundreds of slaves he inherited from his father-in-law as soon as he closed the estate would be more acceptable to any black cadet who understood history than a portrayal of U. S. Grant who was still a slaveowner when the War Between the States ended and actually remained a slave owner until the end of 1865 when the 13th Amendment finally freed the Grant family slaves.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 11:48 am By: Rino Hunter

Grow up, Bobbie. When you run out of even your distorted facts in an argument, it should not be time to turn to personal attacks. Go take a puberty blocker or something.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 10:05 am By: Conservative Voter

Well, NO, Jim Crow is on YOU. It was your party, the Democrats, who proposed it and all voted for it. My party, the Republicans voted AGAINST Jim Crow. That is the actual historical record that you want to sweep under the rug. Own it, Bobbie, Jim Crow is YOURS.

As far as air traffic controllers, you were the one who brought up the year 1776 in reference to them. Regardless of the year, air traffic controllers are FEDERAL jobs, dumbass, and state Jim Crow laws did not apply to federal jobs at any time.

And the issue of the present DEI problem with air traffic controllers never had anything to do with race in the first place. It has to do with Biden giving DEI preference to these categories:

Hearing (total deafness in both ears)
Vision (Blind)
Missing Extremities
Partial Paralysis
Complete Paralysis, Epilepsy
Severe intellectual disability
Psychiatric disability
Dwarfism

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 9:53 am By: John Steed

Here we go again with Bigot Bob's fractured history. We are talking about racial preference hiring at the FAA for air traffic controllers, and now Bob claims that only white men could get jobs as air traffic controllers IN 1776! What aircraft were flying then, Bob?

But then, that is just one of his dodges to claim the FAA issue is all about race. I listed the DEI categories Biden is trying to hire for FAA and NONE of them have anything to do with race. But Bigot Bob is never going to admit he was factually wrong in trying to inject race into this issue. With Bobbie's tunnel vision, everything is about race to him.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 9:27 am By: John Steed

knock your self out. we may both learn new things

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 8:43 pm By: Big Bob