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Indoctrination in social studies classes
Let’s look at a few examples of indoctrination in our public schools. If you listened to my podcast on socialism, you heard me discuss the following about the US history textbook I was assigned to use with my students. I noted that no mention was ever made of the party that freed the slaves. That would be the Republican party. No mention was ever made of the first African Americans to serve in the US Congress. You see, they were all Republicans. No mention was made that the party that created the Ku Klux Klan was the Democrat party. No mention was ever made of the Jim Crow laws being the invention of Democrats. No mention was ever made of the eugenics movement in America by progressives. So, it’s obvious a leftist slant is inevitable in most history textbooks today. When students hear from the “drive by” news that Republicans are racists and Nazis, they assume it’s true. You see, they have no prior facts of history to dispute such a notion.

Let’s consider the case of a new Advanced Placement American History textbook entitled By the People: A History of the United States. The publisher is Pearson Education. I’m not sure we would actually know what’s in this textbook if it hadn’t been for Tarra Snyder, a student at Rosemount High School in Minnesota. You see she took a look at the sample copy her history teacher received from Pearson Publishing and was astonished. And, being a young person in the 21st century, she pulled out her phone and took a picture of several pages which she shared on social media.

Here’s an example of the propaganda in the textbook under a section entitled “The Angry Election of 2016.” This particular section of the textbook was written by New York University Professor James W. Fraser. It begins like this, “Clinton’s supporters feared that the election had been determined by people who were afraid of the rapidly developing ethnic diversity of the country. They also worried about the mental instability of the president-elect and the anger that he and his supporters brought to the nation.”

I just have to stop there and say, Are you FREAKING kidding me? It’s the left, with its inability to process the fact that Hillary Clinton lost the Presidency, that protests and incites violence against Trump supporters or any MAGA hat wearing individual. The anger isn’t coming from people on the right. Let’s listen to Tarra, who is being interviewed by the Fox and Friends team, explain what happened regarding the liberal textbook.

Islamic Indoctrination
So that particular textbook was designed for advanced placement students who are generally very bright and inquisitive. What about the main population of students in American public schools? What kind of indoctrination is taking place there with students that are less informed and more gullible? Well, one area of inculcation can be found in the study of different cultures and religions, mainly the study of Islam. Once again, this is an area I have first hand knowledge of. Islamic indoctrination is being taught in a course called World Cultures.