Misleading Claims in American Educational Curricula (w/Wilfred Reilly)
MAY 31, 202445 MIN
Misleading Claims in American Educational Curricula (w/Wilfred Reilly)
MAY 31, 202445 MIN
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<p class="MsoNormal">Before we talk about this episode, we hope you didn’t miss the latest research from the Connors Institute on the gender pay gap. <strong><a href="https://connorsinstitute.substack.com/p/new-gender-pay-gap-study-from-connors">Check it out now</a></strong>!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We talk quite a bit on <strong><a href="https://connorsinstitute.org/podcast">this podcast</a></strong> about some of the things that many liberal and conservative Americans believe that just ain’t so.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In fact, we just released a free online documentary about this titled <strong><em><a href="https://connorsinstitute.substack.com/p/watch-our-new-documentary-the-poisoning">The Poisoning of the American Mind</a></em></strong><em>. </em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On this episode of the <strong><em><a href="https://connorsinstitute.org/podcast">Utterly Moderate Podcast</a></em></strong><em> </em>we are joined by <strong><a href="https://www.kysu.edu/directory/faculty-staff/wilfred-reilly.php">Wilfred Reilly</a></strong>, political scientist at Kentucky State University, to talk about misleading claims that have made their way into educational curricula in the U.S. Friend of the show <strong><a href="https://connorsinstitute.substack.com/p/two-gender-related-stories-in-the?utm_source=publication-search">Jacob Mackey</a></strong> joins the conversation as a special guest cohost.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Our guest, Dr. Reilly, is the author of several books, two of which are particularly informative in this discussion:</p>
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li class="MsoNormal"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><strong><em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Taboo-Facts-Cant-Talk-About/dp/162157928X/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2TPMXDUJBTXLI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FpHNW0PG0xWR5roeQGW-TTeXkVT9dQOfyufPXElR6429HLUrG1Gg-HNbdNwi_jKVrnvTiXM0nveFf495dwzMipiQFfHRT3rCwY0LqQdY9dKGNE25Z_O49UG8ARNEwN7b9m5MgjF5-0AO0sG6BvHVWrJkOMeOkfzfwMOhTs4p12oEmIVGJZrPV8kjwLCn8V9eNEsH1FdHRTOs1IFKE70Xy1GTuyqVqv7809Mn-RIV5q8.kuqFvvfqpDUgaJ4u9g6QHdWJMykr3IQ-UDc05UuRR-Y&dib_tag=se&keywords=wilfred+reilly&qid=1717171781&sprefix=wilfred+reill%2Caps%2C127&sr=8-3">Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About</a></em></strong> (2020), which addresses such things as:
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li class="MsoNormal">The fact that, contrary to many current claims, men and women are different.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">There is no epidemic of police murdering unarmed Black Americans<em style="text-indent: -0.25in;">.</em></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">“Pay gaps" between big groups, when several important variables are controlled for, are very small.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Liberal-Teacher-Told/dp/0063265974/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FpHNW0PG0xWR5roeQGW-TTeXkVT9dQOfyufPXElR6429HLUrG1Gg-HNbdNwi_jKVrnvTiXM0nveFf495dwzMipiQFfHRT3rCwY0LqQdY9dKGNE25Z_O49UG8ARNEwN7b9m5MgjF5-0AO0sG6BvHVWrJkOMeOkfzfwMOhTs4p12oEmIVGJZrPV8kjwLCn8V9eNEsH1FdHRTOs1IFKE70Xy1GTuyqVqv7809Mn-RIV5q8.kuqFvvfqpDUgaJ4u9g6QHdWJMykr3IQ-UDc05UuRR-Y&qid=1717171953&sr=8-1">Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America’s School Curricula</a></em></strong><em style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </em><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">(June 2024—preorder now!), which includes the following chapters:</span>
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Lie #1: “Brutal ‘True’ Slavery Was Virtually Unique to America and the West”</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Lie #2: “The ‘Red Scare’ Was a Moral Panic That Caught No Commies”</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Lie #3: “Native Americans Were ‘Peaceful People Who Spent All Day Dancing’”</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Lie #4: “Hippies Were the Good Guys, the Sexual Revolution Was Great for Women, and the Vietnam War Was Unpopular and Pointless”</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Lie #5: “The Founders Counted Slaves as Three-Fifths of a Person and the Only Victims of Lynchings Were Black”</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Lie #6: “European Colonialism Was—Empirically—a No-Good, Terrible, Very Bad Thing”</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Lie #7: “American Use of Nukes to End World War Two Was ‘Evil’ and ‘Unjustified’”</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Lie #8: “Unprovoked ‘White Flight,’ Caused by Pure Racism, Ruined America’s Cities”</li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Lie #9: “‘Southern Strategy’ Racism Turned the Solid South Republican”</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">#10 Bonus Lie: The Continuing Oppression Narrative</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Enjoy the conversation, and don’t forget to subscribe in just one click to our <strong><a href="https://connorsinstitute.substack.com/">FREE EMAIL NEWSLETTER</a></strong>!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p dir="ltr" data-test-bidi="">Episode Audio:</p>
<ul>
<li dir="ltr">"Air Background Corporate" by REDCVT (Free Music Archive)</li>
<li dir="ltr">"Please Listen Carefully" by Jahzzar (Free Music Archive)</li>
<li dir="ltr">"Last Dance" by Jahzzar (Free Music Archive)</li>
<li dir="ltr">“Happy Trails (To You)” by the Riders in the Sky (used with artist’s permission)</li>
</ul>
![<description>
<p class="MsoNormal">Before we talk about this episode, we hope you didn&rsquo;t miss the latest research from the Connors Institute on the gender pay gap. <strong><a href="https://connorsinstitute.substack.com/p/new-gender-pay-gap-study-from-connors">Check it out now</a></strong>!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We talk quite a bit on <strong><a href="https://connorsinstitute.org/podcast">this podcast</a></strong> about some of the things that many liberal and conservative Americans believe that just ain&rsquo;t so.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In fact, we just released a free online documentary about this titled <strong><em><a href="https://connorsinstitute.substack.com/p/watch-our-new-documentary-the-poisoning">The Poisoning of the American Mind</a></em></strong><em>.&nbsp;</em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On this episode of the <strong><em><a href="https://connorsinstitute.org/podcast">Utterly Moderate Podcast</a></em></strong><em> </em>we are joined by <strong><a href="https://www.kysu.edu/directory/faculty-staff/wilfred-reilly.php">Wilfred Reilly</a></strong>, political scientist at Kentucky State University, to talk about misleading claims that have made their way into educational curricula in the U.S. Friend of the show <strong><a href="https://connorsinstitute.substack.com/p/two-gender-related-stories-in-the?utm_source=publication-search">Jacob Mackey</a></strong> joins the conversation as a special guest cohost.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Our guest, Dr. Reilly, is the author of several books, two of which are particularly informative in this discussion:</p>
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li class="MsoNormal"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><strong><em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Taboo-Facts-Cant-Talk-About/dp/162157928X/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2TPMXDUJBTXLI&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FpHNW0PG0xWR5roeQGW-TTeXkVT9dQOfyufPXElR6429HLUrG1Gg-HNbdNwi_jKVrnvTiXM0nveFf495dwzMipiQFfHRT3rCwY0LqQdY9dKGNE25Z_O49UG8ARNEwN7b9m5MgjF5-0AO0sG6BvHVWrJkOMeOkfzfwMOhTs4p12oEmIVGJZrPV8kjwLCn8V9eNEsH1FdHRTOs1IFKE70Xy1GTuyqVqv7809Mn-RIV5q8.kuqFvvfqpDUgaJ4u9g6QHdWJMykr3IQ-UDc05UuRR-Y&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=wilfred+reilly&amp;qid=1717171781&amp;sprefix=wilfred+reill%2Caps%2C127&amp;sr=8-3">Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About</a></em></strong> (2020), which addresses such things as:
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li class="MsoNormal">The fact that, contrary to many current claims, men and women are different.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">There is no epidemic of police murdering unarmed Black Americans<em style="text-indent: -0.25in;">.</em></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;Pay gaps" between big groups, when several important variables are controlled for, are very small.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Liberal-Teacher-Told/dp/0063265974/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FpHNW0PG0xWR5roeQGW-TTeXkVT9dQOfyufPXElR6429HLUrG1Gg-HNbdNwi_jKVrnvTiXM0nveFf495dwzMipiQFfHRT3rCwY0LqQdY9dKGNE25Z_O49UG8ARNEwN7b9m5MgjF5-0AO0sG6BvHVWrJkOMeOkfzfwMOhTs4p12oEmIVGJZrPV8kjwLCn8V9eNEsH1FdHRTOs1IFKE70Xy1GTuyqVqv7809Mn-RIV5q8.kuqFvvfqpDUgaJ4u9g6QHdWJMykr3IQ-UDc05UuRR-Y&amp;qid=1717171953&amp;sr=8-1">Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America&rsquo;s School Curricula</a></em></strong><em style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </em><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">(June 2024&mdash;preorder now!), which includes the following chapters:</span>
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Lie #1: &ldquo;Brutal &lsquo;True&rsquo; Slavery Was Virtually Unique to America and the West&rdquo;</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Lie #2: &ldquo;The &lsquo;Red Scare&rsquo; Was a Moral Panic That Caught No Commies&rdquo;</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Lie #3: &ldquo;Native Americans Were &lsquo;Peaceful People Who Spent All Day Dancing&rsquo;&rdquo;</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Lie #4: &ldquo;Hippies Were the Good Guys, the Sexual Revolution Was Great for Women, and the Vietnam War Was Unpopular and Pointless&rdquo;</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Lie #5: &ldquo;The Founders Counted Slaves as Three-Fifths of a Person and the Only Victims of Lynchings Were Black&rdquo;</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Lie #6: &ldquo;European Colonialism Was&mdash;Empirically&mdash;a No-Good, Terrible, Very Bad Thing&rdquo;</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Lie #7: &ldquo;American Use of Nukes to End World War Two Was &lsquo;Evil&rsquo; and &lsquo;Unjustified&rsquo;&rdquo;</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Lie #8: &ldquo;Unprovoked &lsquo;White Flight,&rsquo; Caused by Pure Racism, Ruined America&rsquo;s Cities&rdquo;</li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Lie #9: &ldquo;&lsquo;Southern Strategy&rsquo; Racism Turned the Solid South Republican&rdquo;</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">#10 Bonus Lie: The Continuing Oppression Narrative</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Enjoy the conversation, and don&rsquo;t forget to subscribe in just one click to our <strong><a href="https://connorsinstitute.substack.com/">FREE EMAIL NEWSLETTER</a></strong>!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" data-test-bidi="">Episode Audio:</p>
<ul>
<li dir="ltr">"Air Background Corporate" by REDCVT (Free Music Archive)</li>
<li dir="ltr">"Please Listen Carefully" by Jahzzar (Free Music Archive)</li>
<li dir="ltr">"Last Dance" by Jahzzar (Free Music Archive)</li>
<li dir="ltr">&ldquo;Happy Trails (To You)&rdquo; by&nbsp;the Riders in the Sky&nbsp;(used with artist&rsquo;s permission)</li>
</ul>
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