But my grandmother, her sister in law and many other women of my family DID go to an institution of higher learning. They did go to college. As did a lot of women back then. Even 100 years ago, depending on what country or part of the country you lived in, women were highly esteemed. Even if they didn't go to college as we know it today, they were taught the important things of life, grace, intelligence, wisdom, character, class. Things that, when it comes right down to it, are far more important then getting an "A" in Algebra. Education, back then wasn't put on the high pedistal that it is now. (Nothing wrong with education, I just think we worship school and college and the intellectual way too much these days)
But, assuming they didn't go to college, like you said who says going to college makes you educated. I too know a lot of complete morons who are morons BECAUSE they went to college (and believed all the idiotic jargon spewed to them in liberal psychology, history and sociology classes). Before they went to college they were common sense normal people and came out "enlightened" and "encouaged to broaden their intellectual horizons bay challenging" whatever they thought to be normal before
I come from a good family that didn't beat women and break childrens fingers and they didn't ever know anybody who did such a thing.
Communist Manifesto, well I was speaking more figuratively than literally. Basically the communists doctrine states that everything in the Western Christian Capitalist world is "racist" "sexist" "homophobic" "oppressive to the poor" "evil" and "wrong" and it will never be right until drastic revolutionary changes are made by the Communist Party who will bring about "equality" via government control by first taking over the educational institutions and then indoctrinating the youth. It is all exaggerations or even flat out lies used as propaganda to enflame one group of people against the other.
This didn't necessarily have to be carried out by Russian communist spys from Moscow, or even by an American Socialist party, but gradually and subtly through so called liberal and so called conservative movements in the political and educational arenas.
As you are 23 and did not live "back then" you are taught these beliefs you continue to repeat here in school. I know because I am only a few years older than you and I had this same jargon repeated over and over again in college by professors with that same glint in their liberal eye as they had in 1962. But I have a lot of older friends and family who did live back then. Guess what, it wasn't near as bad as these historians of doom and gloom would have you believe.
Was it all Father Knows Best and Leave it to Beaver "high mom! Dad I'm home. I got into a fight will little Jimmy at school, but we are friends now." No it wasn't. Were there problems. Yes.
Here is an example. Segregation/Integration/Racism You know all these modern Hollywood movies about "racism" and "the South" you see. Countless movies of a black man getting falsely accused and lynched or railroaded through the court. All black people in the town are all quaking with fear living in constant terror. Every day in life all black people are constantly abused and mistreated and bullied by every single member of the white population of the town....except for the one white man who is "50 years ahead of his time." Any moment of happiness that black families have is instantly inturrupted by a car....excuse me pickup truck, driving by with a load of hooded Klansmen or beerbellied boobs. Law enforcement are all potbellied and corrupt. The whole society is basically two different camps 1) black people who are all pure at heart scared but mad lead by civil rights leaders fighting for justice and equality and 2) white people who are all ignorant, full of hate and seek to "keep blacks in their place" with a noose or a gun.
That's the hollywood/liberal view of 1956. Guess what. It wasn't that bad and wasn't that cut and dry....or more to the point, it wasn't that black and white (pun intended)
Liberals think that what obsesses them obsesses everyone.
In reality, there were a lot of every day people, black and white, who had different views on the issues of the day. And the issues were not as clear cut as movies portray them. There were whites and blacks who thought, honestly, that blacks and whites shouldn't intermingle. That it would lead to decrease in education for both, it would lead to interracial marriage (which back then was thought a very unwise idea...and many people today black and white still think that), it would lead to an increase of out of wedlock children, it would lead to more violence in schools.
There where whites and blacks who believed that each should have school choice and many chose to stay in the formerly segregated schools that were still as a matter of fact black or white.
There were some who wanted to go farther and engage in social engineering and forcably integrate both races together for the sake of harmony (by force?).
In a nutshell there were black and whites who wanted things to change in the laws, schools and community but not come through revolutionary means that would lead to more violence, bitterness and end up hurting both.
There were low class blacks and whites who were hateful and lead to clashes with each other, but that was usually a loud minority that made it on the news every night (and the liberal media then as now loves to magnify things and they love to make things very one sided too)
I could go on and on with this issue and write a whole book on the other issues discussed on how things were back in 1956. BUT, I don't have the time and I don't think the moderators would like to see me dominate the whole thread. I will just close with this: Things were a lot more complicated back then than what modern public education has taught us.
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