(in a discussion about people taking parts of what they want out of context to suit their narrative)
…Selective Statistics and Revisionist History are a blight on our discourse.
Somewhat related, but I see consistently the topic of ‘worst president ever’ and A. Jackson and d. trump are mentioned regularly, but the amount of people I teach about Woodrow Wilson is staggering.
To wit, when all you are fed is a party-line message, you either buy into it or discover why it is to be resisted. This is America, home of the bread and circus. We invented the modern-day distraction whilst brushing away generational horrors (slavery, foreign intervention, sexism, xenophobia, christianity, et al.) We were British Empire 2.0 minus some of the colonialism; we were a bit late for that. Instead, we 13th amendment people into slavery…