Every year for Christmas, without fail, my libtard neighbor gifts me a book written by a left-wing nutter who has an axe to grind. These books are nothing more than catnip for self-loathing Americans who - instead of leaving for greener, socialist pastures - would rather stay and bitch about our “racist and greedy country.”
Last years featured little-red book reader was Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen. Of course, this book was praised by other commies such as Howard Zinn and Pravda publications such the San Francisco Chronicle, but no one should be surprised by that.
Will I read this nonsense? Of course not, I’m not going to waste my time reading propaganda while I have other books with historical import that serves my current interest. And my neighbor knows this. However, we go through this dance every year and every year I email him an article that refutes his nonsensical and absurd publications. This years featured article is from the Abbeville Institute. Here is an excerpt:
Propaganda. It’s a well-known word defined as “information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.” And, I might add, used for the purpose of demonizing and destroying one’s enemies. The South has had more than its fair share of time in the crosshairs of Yankee propaganda, and one of the most well-known anti-Southern propagandists is James W. Loewen.
But let us not kid ourselves, soft-pedal the truth, or play nice. Loewen is a great deal more than simply a propagandist; he’s a moral crusader seeking to scrub American history of anything that does not fit his progressive worldview and purge our country from its abominable sin of racism. His writings, including the famous, or rather infamous, book Lies My Teacher Told Me, which David Horowitz has called an “extreme and ill-informed polemic,” and the anti-South diatribe, The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The “Great Truth” About the “Lost Cause,” as well as numerous articles and columns, are, without a doubt, the greatest examples of cherry-picking evidence one is likely to ever encounter.
One does not have to dig deeply into Loewen’s writings to discover that he hates the South, loathes Southerners, and despises our culture, history, and traditions. His world revolves around tearing down our region and our people in books, speeches, and articles in major magazines and newspapers.
Consider this Loewen gem about the “Lost Cause” that appeared in the Washington Post in 2015: “The Confederates won with the pen (and the noose) what they could not win on the battlefield: the cause of white supremacy and the dominant understanding of what the war was all about. We are still digging ourselves out from under the misinformation they spread, which has manifested in our public monuments and our history books.” With such venomous anti-South poison dripping from his acid pen, finding suitable major publications, like the Post, is never a problem.
Although from Illinois, Loewen, at least by his attitudes, surely must emanate from Puritan and Yankee stock. He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard in sociology, not history, and his research field was Chinese-Americans in Mississippi, hardly qualifying one to extrapolate on true Southern history and culture. But, as Southerners well know, self-righteous Puritans believe themselves more knowledgeable than anyone else on any given topic, especially the South.
We have more than our fair share of Southern haters living in Dixie. I wonder what keeps them here or for that fact in the United States? I asked my neighbor that very question, but never get a straight answer. Go figure.
Source:
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/lies-james-loewen-tells-us/
