{"id":3640,"date":"2013-10-25T09:29:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T16:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2013-10-25T09:29:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T16:29:59","slug":"the-mexican-war-propagandized-as-the-north-american-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/10\/25\/the-mexican-war-propagandized-as-the-north-american-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mexican War Propagandized as the &#8220;North American Invasion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;High school educational material from Brown University&#8217;s &#8220;Choices&#8221; program, which included required reading about Mexico, is little more than anti-American propaganda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Bookworm,&#8221; of Bookworm Room blog, shares with us a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookwormroom.com\/2013\/10\/08\/how-brown-university-choices-program-disseminates-propaganda\/\" target=\"_blank\">selection<\/a> from his kids homework assignment.\u00a0 Aside from blaming America, and the free market system. for all of Mexico&#8217;s problem, it also stoops to refer to the Mexican War as the North American Invasion:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The territorial losses of the North American Invasion (Mexican-American War) are still a common point of reference in Mexican politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet again, we see the indoctrination of kids used to de-legitimize America.\u00a0 This dovetails neatly with the calls for &#8220;reconquista&#8221; of Aztl\u00e1n, as outlined in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/clubs.asua.arizona.edu\/~mecha\/pages\/PDFs\/ElPlanDeAtzlan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Plan Espiritual de Aztl\u00e1n<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They even include a vile cartoonish depiction of a border guard:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3641\" title=\"Propaganda Border Agent\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Propaganda_Border_Agent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Propaganda_Border_Agent.jpg 464w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Propaganda_Border_Agent-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Note how this compares with the depiction of a police officer from a &#8220;Occupy Wall Street&#8221; coloring book:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3642\" title=\"Police Brutality Coloring Book\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Police-Brutality-Coloring-Book_3-620x583.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Police-Brutality-Coloring-Book_3-620x583.jpg 620w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Police-Brutality-Coloring-Book_3-620x583-300x282.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A full page from the &#8220;assignment&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p  style=\" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\">   <a title=\"View Choices Program on Mexico for High School students on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/174628685\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" >Choices Program on Mexico for High School students<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/174628685\/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_15883\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;High school educational material from Brown University&#8217;s &#8220;Choices&#8221; program, which included required reading about Mexico, is little more than anti-American propaganda. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Bookworm,&#8221; of Bookworm Room blog, shares with us a selection from his kids homework assignment.\u00a0 Aside from blaming America, &hellip; 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