Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me Quotes

“When analyzed by serious people, across the sweep of history, slavery is revealed to have been not a “Western” practice but rather a universal one largely ended by Western arms.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“American history is explained poorly by modern morality but effectively by simple economics and power dynamics.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“While the United States of America is indeed an imperfect human-founded country with a bloody history, virtually every major empirical claim made by contemporary race activists is just factually false.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“In the meantime, the “woke” activists of our own time are moving beyond novel but established frameworks like “systemic racism” to seek out wholly new ways to be oppressed—such as “cultural appropriation,” which occurs when people from different backgrounds learn from one another.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“In 2021, an astonishing study from the respected Skeptic Research Center titled “How Informed Are Americans About Race and Policing?” found that “over half (53.5%) of those reporting ‘very liberal’ political views” believe that more than 1,000 unarmed Black men were killed in 2019 by American police.6 To be more specific, 31.43 percent of “very liberal” respondents and leftists estimated that “about 1,000” unarmed Black men were killed by police officers—while 14.21 percent put the toll at “about 10,000” and 7.86 percent thought the true figure had to be higher than that.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“When President Lyndon B. Johnson famously and grudgingly signed the act into law, he allegedly said about its upside, “I’ll have them niggers voting Democrat for 200 years”—a testament to potential Republican backlash, but certainly also to the man’s own bigotry.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“It is worth pointing out that this state of affairs prevailed well into modern times. In the mid-1960s, when the law most Americans think of as the Civil Rights Act came up for a vote in Congress, the substantial majority of organized opposition to it came from the Democratic side of the aisle. In the end, only 61 percent of House Democrats (152 out of 248) voted in favor of the Act, while 80 percent of Republicans (138 out of 172) did so.12 Seventy-four percent of all final “nay” votes came from Democrats, and the Burros at one point staged a seventy-five-day formal filibuster against the bill in an attempt to disgust the GOP into abandoning it.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“As the iconic Carol Swain of Vanderbilt University notes, in an address that became a widely viewed video from Prager University, the Democratic Party opposed “virtually every major civil rights initiative” from its founding until the modern era. In a sentence worth quoting in full, Swain points out that “the Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, opposed Reconstruction, imposed segregation, perpetrated lynchings, and fought against the Civil Rights Acts of the 1950s and 1960s.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“At its root, Elder’s “white supremacy” seems to be reducible to his rejection of modern Wokeist ideology: he “just fundamentally doesn’t believe” in modern critical theory or in concepts like univariate white privilege or systemic racism.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“GOP mainliners are themselves frequently described as racists and slave masters when they run for office against a Democratic candidate.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“In 2012, then vice president Joe Biden drew headlines after telling a largely Black audience that President Barack Obama’s milquetoast opponent Mitt Romney was going to “put y’all back in chains” once in the White House.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“Trump could show up to the next debate wearing a white hood,” the article dead seriously argues at one point, “and Republicans would probably still support his candidacy.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“In reality, there is essentially no evidence that truly modern, post–right-of-conquest moral or legal standards existed anywhere on earth before the modern era—Iroquois or Hawaiian or Ashanti nobles were probably no more or less ruthless than their white opponents—but there is considerable evidence of the hard material benefits of colonialism.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“The original targets of the Ku Klux Klan were Republicans, both Black and white,”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“Blakemore writes: “Many Americans, swept up on a tide of anti-immigrant sentiment, applauded the killings.” The New York Times, remarkably showing worse taste than she does today, ran a page-long editorial which largely praised the mob and called Italians like those murdered—to quote—“sneaking and cowardly Sicilians, the descendants of bandits and assassins . . . a pest without mitigations.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“Our society is not just “sometimes unfortunately bad, like all the others”: we alone are the worst.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“This sort of uncompromising puritanical spirit also animates a variation on this trope, which is the presentation of almost universal human evils as somehow being uniquely linked to American or Black American history.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“Activists tend to see history as a series of simple binary choices. Any choice that involves compromise is unambiguously bad.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“This state of affairs simply did not work, mentally, for a great many women. In a poignant reflection on her scene, Ironside admits that “many of us girls spent the entire 1960s in tears . . . however one tried to separate sex from love, we’d been brought up to associate the two.” Thus, “every time we went to bed with someone, we’d hope it would lead to something more permanent—and each time it never did.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“However, in the humanities fields, 19 percent of academics identify as radicals, 26.2 percent identify as activists, and 5 percent identify as Marxists.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“that very many of those charged with bringing knowledge to the U.S. population are, even today, themselves Marxists or Marxist sympathizers.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“Louis F. Budenz—former Communist agent and American labor activist—in fact wrote a white paper titled The Techniques of Communism.26 In chapter ten, “Invading Education,” Budenz opens: “In undermining a nation such as the United States, the infiltration of the educational process is of prime importance,”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“If we’ve lost sight of both the self-inflicted censorship and the real communists in Hollywood, we’ve also forgotten the historic prevalence of communist sympathies in academia.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“Then what made the modern Western world unique when it came to slavery? The simple if unpopular answer is: Ending the practice of slavery.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“at least part of the reason the U.S. government was so ruthless with the great Southeastern Native nations during this 1850s–1860s era of history was that many of them spoke openly in support of the Southern cause—and fought with the Confederacy when the Civil War began.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“Comanche author and museum curator Paul Chaat Smith, quoted in the Smithsonian piece, points out that “the . . . tribes were deeply committed to slavery, established their own racialized Black codes, immediately reestablished slavery when they arrived in Indian territory, rebuilt their nations with slave labor, and enthusiastically sided with the Confederacy in the Civil War.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“The first true American slave owner, very probably, was a Black man with African roots.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“And while it is difficult and a bit tasteless to compare these things, the Arab trade was by all accounts as brutal or more so than its Western counterpart”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“By almost every metric, the Arab slave trade was larger in scale than the white-dominated Atlantic slave trade.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

“myself—like Johnson, a solid hand at running the old Stata models—came to virtually identical conclusions writing for the online journal Quillette in 2021, noting that “between 2019—by no means a famously peaceful year—and 2020, homicides alone surged by 42 percent during the summer and [another] 34 percent during the fall.”34 Left-leaning magazines and journals like Vox largely attributed this trend to general chaos associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.35 However, I noted that an alternative explanation fits the data far better: crime leapt like 1990s Mike Jordan because many large police departments had their budgets cut, and almost all of them reeled in their stops dramatically.”
― Wilfred Reilly, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula