“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Sure, I have no issue with learning about various world cultures, if it was part of the curriculum. But one 'special' month devoted to one culture, and the political framing as if my daughter should have some guilt over something she had nothing to do with - is what I have a problem with. There hasn't been a group or culture on earth that wasn't disadvantaged or oppressed at some point.
My daughter asked her teacher why there is no white history month. According to that teacher, it's because white people haven't suffered as much as black people. Thanks to my own 'awakening', I'm teaching truth and reality about many subjects her teachers would rather her not know about. They could have just stuck to math and science, but they just can't leave social justice shit alone.
Nope, fuckem. Am a law abiding citizen, never had trouble with the law. But this last year showed me who they work for, and it ain't us. The 'good' cops who stand by and allow oppression aren't good anymore. They chose their side first.