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  • #436
    Re: Nice Planet XII: It's Cruel to be Kind!

    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
    Syria is what has always been the civilian face of war. Eye witnesses in every war zone have described the same idiotic butchery. Now we just have a much more thorough record. But this is Carthage 149 BC, Baghdad 1258, Stalingrad 1943.
    I thought we learned history to prevent repeating it? That's what I was told years ago. Syria is senseless.
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    Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
    Originally Posted by First Time, Long Time-Always knew you were nothing but a troll.

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    • #437
      Re: Nice Planet XII: It's Cruel to be Kind!

      Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
      I thought we learned history to prevent repeating it? That's what I was told years ago. Syria is senseless.
      That's what is continued to be told, yet history seems to be "erased" from the textbooks. I'm sure there are some cultures that don't even mention the Holocaust, or the Armenian genocide.

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      • #438
        Re: Nice Planet XII: It's Cruel to be Kind!

        Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
        I thought we learned history to prevent repeating it? That's what I was told years ago. Syria is senseless.
        Every generation has to learn the lesson again. To be honest if we didn't learn from WW1 we will never learn.

        We will have war for as long as we are descended from apes. Some clever geneticist might solve that problem someday, but until then the vast majority of monkey brains will view the world as zero sum and use violence as a first resort.
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        • #439
          Re: Nice Planet XII: It's Cruel to be Kind!

          Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
          That's what is continued to be told, yet history seems to be "erased" from the textbooks. I'm sure there are some cultures that don't even mention the Holocaust, or the Armenian genocide.
          Or slavery.
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          • #440
            Re: Nice Planet XII: It's Cruel to be Kind!

            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
            Or slavery.
            Yeah, that was a mistake. What a ****ing joke.
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            Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
            Originally Posted by First Time, Long Time-Always knew you were nothing but a troll.

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            • #441
              Re: Nice Planet XII: It's Cruel to be Kind!

              Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
              Yeah, that was a mistake. What a ****ing joke.
              I'm sure it was an honest oversight.

              After two years of heated political debate, the Texas State Board of Education spent the past week incorporating their own conservative values into final guidelines for history and social studies classes taught in the state’s public schools for the next 10 years. They voted late Friday to adopt a host of sweeping changes. In the process, their decisions may force the entire nation to also adopt their radical right-wing re-write of history.

              Among the proposed changes were plans to “teach” children to challenge the “solvency” of “long-term entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare” and other euphemistic views of history that, for example, would refer to the slave trade as simply the “Atlantic triangular trade.” Oh, the conservative members of the board also hoped that no one noticed that they omitted from textbooks the name of the 44th President of The United States: Barack Obama.

              The last two proposals were eventually amended. The “Atlantic triangular trade” language was finally changed to the “trans-Atlantic slave trade.” And one Republican board member ultimately relented in his demand to refer to the first black president only by his full name: Barack Hussein Obama.

              They even tried to remove Thomas Jefferson from a list of American history’s key thinkers. He was one of the founding architects of the modern philosophy of church/state separation, as well as the author of that obscure document called the Declaration of Independence. So naturally he had to go. That move failed.

              Still in the document, however, were other proposals that would water down Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s generally repudiated anti-communist hearings in the 1950s and restrict inclusion of some modern Latino leaders in textbooks.
              Funny how those brave crusaders against "state school propaganda" somehow missed the boat on this.
              Last edited by Kepler; 08-22-2016, 05:07 PM.
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              • #442
                Re: Nice Planet XII: It's Cruel to be Kind!

                Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
                That's what is continued to be told, yet history seems to be "erased" from the textbooks. I'm sure there are some cultures that don't even mention the Holocaust, or the Armenian genocide.
                Yeah they work for Donald Drumpf
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                • #443
                  Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
                  I thought we learned history to prevent repeating it? That's what I was told years ago. Syria is senseless.
                  When you have dictators who think they can just solve all problems (I.e protestors) through brutality you get what we're seeing over there.

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                  • #444
                    Originally posted by trixR4kids View Post
                    When you have dictators who think they can just solve all problems (I.e protestors) through brutality you get what we're seeing over there.
                    There is evil in the world. Wishing it away or believing there is no such thing as a bad boy will not make it disappear.
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                    • #445
                      Re: Nice Planet XII: It's Cruel to be Kind!

                      Originally posted by joecct View Post
                      There is evil in the world. Wishing it away or believing there is no such thing as a bad boy will not make it disappear.
                      There is no such thing as "evil" but there are evil acts. It's an adjective, not a noun.

                      Same goes for "good."

                      Mistaking adjectives for nouns is the root of most human problems.
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                      • #446
                        Re: Nice Planet XII: It's Cruel to be Kind!

                        Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
                        That's what is continued to be told, yet history seems to be "erased" from the textbooks. I'm sure there are some cultures that don't even mention the Holocaust, or the Armenian genocide.
                        The Armenian genocide was not covered in my high school. For world history, it was focused on communism/Cold War, Holocaust, WWI and II, and the Vietnam conflict and Korean War.
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                        • #447
                          Re: Nice Planet XII: It's Cruel to be Kind!

                          Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
                          The Armenian genocide was not covered in my high school. For world history, it was focused on communism/Cold War, Holocaust, WWI and II, and the Vietnam conflict and Korean War.
                          My Ninth Grade Modern European History teacher was named Ohanesian. He covered it in detail.
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                          • #448
                            Re: Nice Planet XII: It's Cruel to be Kind!

                            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                            My Ninth Grade Modern European History teacher was named Ohanesian. He covered it in detail.
                            I should read up on it more. I know the bare-bones basics at best. Absolutely fascinating; the actual events, AND the aftermath about acknowledgement (or lack thereof).
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                            • #449
                              Re: Nice Planet XII: It's Cruel to be Kind!

                              Meanwhile the channel of conservative family values is run like the playboy mansion.

                              http://ijr.com/2016/08/678559-andrea...tent=elections

                              In a lawsuit filed Monday and first published by The New York Times, Andrea Tantaros writes:

                              “Fox News masquerades as a defender of traditional family values, but behind the scenes, it operates like a sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult, steeped in intimidation, indecency and misogyny.”
                              And the best part.

                              Bill O’Reilly allegedly subjected her to unwelcome advances
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                              Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
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                              • #450
                                Re: Nice Planet XII: It's Cruel to be Kind!

                                Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
                                Meanwhile the channel of conservative family values is run like the playboy mansion.
                                The political right has been a con since the mid 80s. This is no surprise.
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