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I started to read an article from the Smithsonian about the Spartans. A few paragraphs in something seemed (((off))). Sure enough...

submitted by Metanoid to whatever 1 yearSep 28, 2023 14:59:07 ago (+36/-0)     (www.smithsonianmag.com)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sparta-much-more-army-warriors-180978583/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=9232023&utm_content=archival

Right off the bat he is basically saying that everything we've ever learned about the Spartans is falso, they were weak and cowardly etc. He makes some off handed remark that the movie 300 is responsible for their reputation (I knew all about this a good 20 years before the movie) so I decided to skip to the bottom to see who the author was. Myke Cole. Funny spelling. Thought I would take a look at ye olde Early Life.

It never fucking fails... I'll save you the trouble of checking his Wiki.

Early life
Cole is of Jewish heritage and grew up outside New York City where his father was a professor at New York City College.


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It's wild when you realize how ideologically swept your childhood education was.

Right you are.

I remember even as a kid gradually noticing the concerted effort to downplay and even calumniate the history of White Civilization, while aggrandizing every non-White culture.

The Aztecs were more advanced than Europeans. Europeans didn't bathe while noble non-Whites did. China was and remains greater than White Civilization. Blacks were kidnapped by Whites from Africa, and were constantly beaten throughout their lives.

In every war, European aggression is emphasized while the reasons precipitating it are left unexplained.

There was a time that I even felt ashamed to be White, due to the education I received. One day I realized that we were being subjected to material designed to elicit an emotional response, and there was only one reason to expose young kids to such material before they can even think critically: conditioning.