That's a rhetorical question, of course. In the 12 years that a typical students spend in public schools and the several years people often spend in so-called "Higher Ed," there must be some knowledge that is not entirely wrong imparted.
Right? Right?
Probably, but it gets harder to find anything real amidst all the nonsense and lies, not to mention the political propaganda that has flooded our classrooms. We can no longer count on even the science curricula to be based on facts.
I should have predicted that when they took Pluto's status as a planet away. It's been an ever-more-rapid decline since then. That's my story, and I am sticking to it.
With Thanksgiving approaching, let's revisit one of the more widespread, and absurd, false beliefs that we've uncovered:
— Skeptic Research Center Team (@SkepResCenter) November 24, 2025
Nearly 80% of Black Americans and over 2/3s of Hispanic Americans agree that "Prior to the arrival of the European Settlers, Native American/Indigenous tribes… pic.twitter.com/w23fljFzfw
Younger people are, it seems, far more likely to believe utter nonsense than people who left the education system a long time ago, and the reason why is obvious: the education system teaches utter nonsense.
Students in recent years have been fed a steady diet of nonsense about science, biology, and even physics. Men can be women, black holes are racist inventions, and the world has been a peaceful paradise in places where whites have not touched the ground or polluted the air with evil thoughts and deeds.
Such beliefs are absurdities and demonstrably false. The barest knowledge of history and anthropology disproves the "noble savage" myth, as well as the idea that slavery, war, racism, or any of the ills of the world are caused by skin color or even correlated with it.
It is manifestly true that white people have done awful things and some continue to do them, but it is also provably true that people from other cultures and ethnic groups do as well. MesoAmerica provides a rich vein of proof of these facts, given that human sacrifice, war, "colonialism," and all the ills that the woke worry about were rife well before anybody on this side of the Atlantic (or Pacific) could have influenced the brutal brown people who lived here.
And, ironically, Hispanics are more likely to believe these myths than white people, although less likely than blacks, whose ancestors were mainly enslaved by other black people before they were sold to the Europeans who brought them here.
Hispanics only exist as a class because they are descended from white people, who mixed with the natives who lived here. They have more connection to oppression than I do, as all my ancestors came over from Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century. My wife is Hispanic, and her ancestors on her mother's side were conquistadors who were granted their land in New Mexico from the Crown.
I joke with her all the time that she is descended from the oppressors, while mine were escaping crushing poverty in Europe. Yet she gets DEI points, and I don't.
We hear all the time about European colonization of the Middle East and the evils of the Crusades, but nobody talks about the Arabs and Muslims conquering vast territories and stealing the Holy Land before the Crusades. Ask the Spanish about the Moors, who colonized southern Spain and had to be kicked out.
Human beings are fallen, and cultures rise and fall. Western cultures have had their better and worse times, and you won't find me defending the witch trials or drawing and quartering people, or the various religious wars in Europe. Just as I am less harsh on varieties of Islam that have risen and fallen over time. There was a period of history where Muslims were more civilized than Christian countries.
Teaching people nonsense matters a lot. The grotesque ignorance being propagated by our education system is sowing the seeds of our destruction. In order to improve things, you must know what they are. To solve problems, you must know what causes them.
Teaching fake history and demanding that people become activists to change things based on false premises is no better than basing medical science on the "four humors," and recommending bloodletting as a treatment for sepsis. It is insane.
But here we are, doing just that.
