From: slider@anashram.com

Donald Trump has been ridiculed over plans for a “patriotic education” commission for American schools, with critics comparing the proposals to
Nazi Germany’s Hitler Youth programme.

Speaking at what was dubbed the White House Conference on American
History, the US president said children had undergone “decades of leftwing indoctrination”, as he set out plans for a “patriotic education” programme.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-us-education-nazi-germany-hitler-youth-programme-b482696.html

"We're launching a new pro-American lesson plan for students called [the]
1776 Commission,” he told an audience. “We're going to teach our children the truth about America."

Twitter users soon mocked the president, with one person comparing his
speech at the National Archives to “straight up Nazi rhetoric”.

Others panned the proposals as being on par with the Hitler Youth, as the
Nazi youth organisation’s name trended on Twitter on Friday.

“Since people are (correctly) equating Trump’s new executive order with Hitler’s Youth, here is an interesting factoid,” wrote American author and film producer, Tariq Nasheed. “Hitler’s Youth was actually inspired by the Boy Scouts...Because the Boy Scouts was founded by white supremacist
Robert Baden-Powell”.

The president, announcing the creation of a “1776 Commission” to promote “patriotic” and “pro-America” education, had also criticised The New York
Times’ 1619 Project, an initiative educating children on the arrival of
the first slave ship to North America.

"There is no more powerful force than a parent's love for their children,” said Mr Trump. “And patriotic mums and dads are going to demand that their children are no longer fed hateful lies about this country".

The 1619 project’s mission statement says it will educate Americans about slavery and the contributions of black Americans to national life, which
Mr Trump called “warped”.

### - as an old history student i can't but help take objection to the re-writing of history to suit 'any' particular political agenda? history
being written by the victors being surely bad enough without it being deliberately re-written to write-out some or parts of it??

imho, history 'should' be told as it 'actually' happened and people then
left to debate/decide what it all means or doesn't mean for themselves?
the most important thing being the 'facts' of any matter as opposed to the deliberate skewing of those facts in-favour of some one particular
ideology or another?

'Truth' being far more important than how people might 'feel' about that
truth!

and because those that ignore the 'lessons' of history are doomed to
repeat it?

we HAVE to have the truth of things because anything less is mere indoctrination!

that 'whatever' the 'truth' is we have to get used to it - as it actually
is - or remain locked into a false sense of reality that doesn't address
those truths so we can then move on from them!

i mean, in this day & age how can 'anyone' ever possibly find this
alteration of history acceptable???

it is what it is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10YeFhYGVJU

"just gimmie some truth" ;)

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