SATIRE ALERT

American History for Those Unafraid to Grope the Flag

A sad (but probably true) summary of “patriotic education”

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I’ve been known to get on some strange mailing lists, but the latest one is special, even by the usual standards.

I got something today from a group that says it’s “leading the fight against the leftist attempt to indoctrinate our kids with Critical Race Theory.”

It’s from the Patriotic History Education Trumping Ingratitude Committee, also known as PatHETIC.

Catchy.

Anyway, no need to clutter up their message with my own editorializing. That would be like cluttering up history class with facts. So I’ll just re-post the entirety of their letter. Enjoy!

Dear Patriotic Americans,

For months the left has been attacking us — attacking you — for standing up against the evils of Critical Race Theory.

This horrible, awful, no-good philosophy is rotten to the core, which you probably already know because it includes the word “theory.”

And where have we heard that before?

How about…Darwin’s theory of evolution.