To what extent is the current prosperity we enjoy due to slavery that ended a century and a half ago? It’s an article of faith among American leftists that the results of slavery are still very much with us. Students are often taught that in high school and go on believing so — unless they happen to mention it to one of the few college professors who can and will respond intelligently.
In this AIER article, GMU economics professor Don Boudreaux relates a conversation with a student who has been led to believe that American prosperity isn’t due to market competition and free enterprise, but is instead rooted in and tainted by slavery.
Read it to get a good sense of how high schoolers are being indoctrinated by clueless teachers who spout economic and historic disinformation.
Also, ponder what other beliefs this student probably holds on account of her “education.” I’d suggest that she believes that the country should pay reparations for slavery, that capitalism is an unfair, racist system, and that the Great Reset to replace the free market with a completely government-controlled economic system is imperative.
Is it any wonder that so many “highly educated” Americans now automatically support the Democrats?