Mike Huckabee teaches American kids history without Bias

So I was checking my email, and a friend sent me this link to Learn Our History, which is, as the thread title suggests, a place where kids can learn American history without bias. Yeah right.

Any thoughts on this fabulous work of art?

edited 12th Aug '11 4:07:37 AM by SCBracer

I saw this before. All I can say is: What simplistic writing style this conveys.

The Ministry of Truth could use some more art deco.

I didn't see anything that wasn't true, but it looks campy and low budget as all hell.

Well so far so good.

Except for the terrible terrible animation.

"Adding comments has been disabled for this video."

Damn.

My word what craptastic animation

The animation ain't that bad, actually; everything else, though...guh!

Erm, I hope that's not all there is to it, yes? Seems more like a trailer than an actual lesson.

And nice move on completely glossing over the whole "killing Bin Laden" part. No mention of Obama as Commander in Chief of that operation, or Seal Team 6? You'd think George Bush was still President.

Indeed. The campiness was pretty offensive, really.

But yeah, it's a trailer.

edited 12th Aug '11 7:46:30 AM by silver2195

I hope the ghosts of the dead will forgive me for finding that absolutely hilarious.

I noticed a prominent mention of the 9/11 responders. Why yes, they did go 'right into the middle of it,' little Susie! And years later they died of cancer because of it while waiting for medical care that the Republicans kept delaying as part of their stance against government spending! Isn't whitewashing history FUN? :)

It's very clearly a black man in the white house around 1:00.

I didn't see the bias, actually. The Osam scene is essientially what he was doing.

^

I think that was their interpretation of Colin Powell or something.

The guy behind the desk looked like George W.

Wasn't this the series of videos that had revisionist history regarding Reagan?

I love how the animation looks like a shitty early 3D videogame had sex with South Park.

I realised, in retrospect, that I should have mentioned some of the other weirdness in these videos. I'm going to quote my friend on this, because his email says it better than I ever could:

edited 13th Aug '11 5:33:33 AM by SCBracer

I would honestly be very curious as to whether these things explain why they don't use their time machine to stop 9-11 or the second world war.

Their Ossama Bin Laden looks much much better than the real one, almost a Bishōnen.

I spotted one error: Saddam Hussein was never involved with 9/11, yet was shown. Obviously absent, the fabricated US evidence for the invasion of Iraq and his capture. So yeah, it's falsifying history.

Blatant whitewashing of history here.

So it's no different than the blackpainting of history seen from the other side?

if by blackpainting, you mean the tendency for "liberal" colleges to actually give the cultural background for events instead of "memorize ben franklins birthdate. also, the revolutionary war was totally the US winning like awesome:"

^ I'm talking the overemphasis on the negative parts of history. The way some history books are, you'd never know the 19th century saw the invention of the steam engine, cotton gin, barbed wire, the Bessemer process (important because this is why we have cheap steel), the telegraph, the telephone, radio, the internal combustion engine, the bicycle, the automobile, the lightbulb, electricity (DC by Edison, AC by Tesla), and more. Instead you get nothing but Trail of Tears, Indian extermination campaigns, smallpox epidemics, the exploitation and conquest of Africa, the plight of the poor in Mexico and Latin America, the Napoleonic Wars, the atrociously high casualty count of the American Civil War, and others.

The 20th century is painted much blacker in many areas.

Must depend on area. where I live, most of those get downplayed in favor of jingoism until you reach college.

High School History in Missouri: We won the Revolution! Oh, and france helped. a tiny bit. Also the Taxes before it were totally unfair and had NO JUSTIFICATION AT ALL. Also the Civil war was awesome and the south sucked and missouri was definitely a free state. also Bloody kansas never happened.. Oh by the way, we totally kicked Hitler's ass. Also something something trail of tears, uh, lets skip that, anyhow. ALAMO YEAH WE KICKED MEXICOS ASS.

Needless to say, until you crack open a college textbook, most rural schools in missouri would have you believe America was a Dungeons and Dragons paladin full of righteousness and heroics and any bad thing we ever did was a minor quibble.

edited 13th Aug '11 7:37:14 AM by Midgetsnowman

I must admit, if there is one thing in American history that I would change its the war of independence. The fact that its so mytholigised makes me want to spit blood.

The Revolutionary War is ridiculously mythologized. at least in missouri, you dont find out basic shit till college like.

1. Paul Revere wasnt the only rider on that ride, nor the most effective one.

2. Washington could definitely tell lies, one of his greatest weapons in the war was spy networks he set up

3. England had to give up because half of Europe declared war on it once it realized they could use the Americans as an excuse to declare war on Britain. (seriously., France and like half of eastern europe HATED england. Once they realized america was halfway legitimate, they were glad to throw their full support behind trolling the shit out of the brits)

4. The Boston Massacre and the Intolerable acts were COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED

5. Only about a THIRD of the people in the US supported secession from England.

edited 13th Aug '11 7:45:41 AM by Midgetsnowman