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by James A. Bacon
In 1995 James W. Loewen wrote a provocatively titled volume, Lies My Teacher Told Me, which proffered leftist interpretations of topics that allegedly had been sanitized from American history books. Two decades later, Wilfred Reilly has put his own spin on Loewen’s book title and American history in Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me.
Reilly could have just as well have called the book Lies My Leftist College Professor Told Me, for every one of the narrative myths he debunks originated in academe and flourish there today. Here is a sampling:
Lie #1: Brutal “True” Slavery Was Virtually Unique to America and the West;
Lie #3: Native Americans Were Peaceful People Who Spent All Day in Dancing;
Lie #6: European Colonialism Was — Empirically — a No-Good, Terrible, Very Bad Thing;
#10: Bonus Lie: The Continuing Oppression Narrative.
For anyone fed up with the woke mind virus, Reilly’s books — which include Taboo: 10 Facts You Can’t Talk About, and Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left Is Selling a Fake Race War — are a joy to read.
I expect his speech, hosted by The Jefferson Council and the Young Americans for Freedom December 5, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the University of Virginia, to be equally entertaining. The title: “Narrative vs Reality – from UVA to the USA and Beyond.” (To register click here.)
