One of my more counterintuitive views is that the "marketplace of ideas" argument taught to me in the 1990s/2000s that totally free speech is good because truth will win out is utter hogwash. You can argue for free speech because of the potential for abuse, but there's no guarantee truth wins.
Can I just say though, I hate this dumb tick, that when you find out something new and unexpected that you think you should have known, it automatically means that you’ve been “lied to”. Not knowing something isn’t some grand conspiracy ffs!
Honestly, making every high school class watch the first part of Why We Fight, "Prelude to War" would do a fair bit to ameliorate the disaster that is our national civics education (though someone might need to provide some updates on the mention of the - probably forged - 'Tanaka Memorial')
My favorite episode was on the invasion of the USSR. It's a treat seeing nakedly pro Soviet propaganda made by Uncle Sam knowing what happens just a few years later.
I feel like an updated version of Why We Fight for today's moment, with the same description of how fascism and authoritarianism lead to the 'slave world,' would be valuable.
Could pair this with a reading of "Auschwitz, Our Home" from Tadeusz Borowski's "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen" to really hammer home how wrong all the statue head avatars are.
All the Japanese stuff is extremely racist though lol. It sucks how nowadays you can bring back the anti-Nazi classics, but not the anti-Japanese ones because they all have squinty eyes, two buck teeth and a rice hat.
My grandma lived in the western district of Shanghai when the Japanese invaded. She was like 6 but we never uh… never quite got the slurs out of her vocabulary
One of the most disappointing things about flying in the USAF today is that there are no epic scores and sweeping camera shots when you go fly. Just your cockpit view and people talking on Guard...
At least sometimes we get to 'step' with a good big booty mix playing in the background....
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https://youtu.be/QX7BBc36e9U?feature=shared
Spectacular piece of propaganda
Although I’m reminded of the girl who asked “why were they filming the assassination” when we watched a reenactment of the Lincoln’s assassination.
At least sometimes we get to 'step' with a good big booty mix playing in the background....