Teaching children to love their country is a good thing.
It's surreal and horrifying that those words would even need to be said.

Yet, they do need to be said.
And, no, the above does not demand ignoring or masking our history, nor does it require some North Korea-like brainwashing apparatus.

It starts at home.
And if you can't think of any reasons why you love America, then I'd submit it is you who has been brainwashed.

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1 Jun
When you mint victimhood into a valuable currency and reward narcissim and champion fragility, your society falls off track.

This isn't rocket science.

The good news is, it's also not that difficult to reverse. You just need a critical mass of people willing to do so.
This starts with devaluing the emphasis on emotion. We got here because of a hyper-focus on not hurting other people's feelings; these are the final perverse chapters of that book.

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Right now we are stuck in a societal rut of hyper-focus on external factors to excuse internal deficiencies.
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29 May
"Poor white children get more access to educational opportunity. . .than the WEALTHIEST Black kids."

What an asinine statement. A desired spearhead that simply doesn't exist. The way that distorts our reality is not only erroneous, it is intentional, devious and disgusting.
Ive written two threads in the last week that were right in this vein. There is this (very intentional) mechanism going on where people present rational good faith-sounding arguments, but buried below is a knife of bare racism being twisted in. Look for it; it's common right now.
It usually doesn't take much parsing for this to reveal itself...

"They recruit the top Asian, Black and a brown students, whose work subsidizes the academic reputation fir the rest of the mediocre, rich white students. 👈

This is not an opinion. The data shows it."
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27 May
This is the stuff that infuriates me! Read the entire article below; grasp the purpose of the plan. Then look at the framing of the two passages I pasted.

I'll post my thoughts below.

politico.com/amp/news/2021/… ImageImage
The rational basis for this is to close a wealth gap. That those from wealthy families often get parental down payments for their first home. This is how the rich get richer/stay rich. OK, that registers, even if one may disagree w/ the mechanism.

But then it switches tracks...
Suddenly there's all this language about race. One quote that gives off the impression if you're white you have rich parents. What?!? There are millions more white Americans under the poverty line than black Americans.

How can you possibly defend...
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27 May
What occurred in our society over the last decade or so is that "PC culture" became weaponized.
The clearest example of this is gender theory...

What started in a noble place as "Let's not make life harder on transgender people" (PC culture) was then manufactured into a bludgeon: "You are a bigot if you don't support biological males playing sports against young girls!".
The ideologues turned the sentiment of sympathy inherently related to the former into a very effective and valuable tool for forcing unpopular ideology down the throat of the masses.

Add in a fragile and cowardly populace and this weapon reigned supreme!
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