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I definitely reside in a reality quite different than your existence of blind, unwavering conformity to the borg, yes. 

I guess this is what you don't understand:  I could say the same exact thing to you.  Trump proved 40% of the country is a blind sheep. 

well maybe he'll do better the 2nd time

Yeah, if I was a parent of a child that had fro as a teacher, that would end badly for at least one of us.

Yeah, if I was a parent of a child that had fro as a teacher, that would end badly for at least one of us.

Yes, your child would correct you on matters of fact and your ego would be wounded.

I have to imagine that my "History of Western Civilization" book from college reads a lot differently today, than it did 35 years ago.

Other than a few whack jobs, do see people celebrating our bad historical actions?

Every country has whack jobs. 

Go to Europe. It's not Utopia. 

I was chatting yesterday a bit with my South African friend, he reminded me of one "diversity training" we both attended where we were asked to write on a board everything we had "heard" about black folks.  They were largely pejorative items, to some extent, like they didn't swim well, etc.  The "moderator" used that to "prove" we were all racist.  Fortunately I wrote some positive things sensing where he was headed but most of the items we had HEARD others say were negative.

Then we were to write "bad things" in history that our government had done to black folks, starting of course with slavery.  By then, the group (of managers mostly) were twice shy and wrote little down so the moderator had to write HIS items.  The "conclusion" was government is racist, so everyone in the room AND government was racist and keeping the man down.  By then we all were just sitting there with arms crossed hoping it would end soon.  The dude then wanted us to do "role playing" (a tactic I utterly despise) and a couple of the more junior folks complied and the session got even more ridiculous.

This was one event of course, in a large company, and I seriously doubt other large companies were not hiring the same outside groups to do the same things.  One thing I learned was whatever silliness happened at our company was happening at other large companies as well.

When I reached a certain point in my "career", I stopped attending these "mandatory" meetings.  I figured I'd get a call at some point from some Admin, but it never happened.  Nobody really cared whether we went or not.  I had another friend who was a director, he told me they all got $X for diversity training, and they had to do something, so they'd have their Admin call around to find some outfit to do something once a year, or twice perhaps.  Whether it was effective or useful was unimportant.

We were of course adults, most of us, and by then we knew to brush off most of the yaya the company would foist off on  us.  I found once I eliminated the yaya, there was very little left.