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So the conservatives and tea-baggers would prefer that we serve up lies and omissions to students instead.  It's pathological.
[Image] Slavery?  What are you talking about?  Never happened.  Union busting?  McCarthyism?  COINTELPRO?  Segregation?  Japanese internment?  Criminalization of homosexuality?  Discrimination against women?  The Trail of Tears?  Iran-Contra?  Watergate?  Torture?  Domestic spying?  The School of the Americas?  Why you're talking gibberish, man.  Rubbish!

You know what?  You don't grow and improve as a country, or as a person by sweeping your faults under a rug and pretending they never existed.  We could stand to have a little more introspection and to have an honest and open conversation about both our history and our present.

Via Billmon's Twitter feed:
.@TRexstasy The enemy is truth --> http://t.co/ThsbNy8eCP pic.twitter.com/HLcc0g3nFM
— Billmon (@billmon1) September 23, 2014