Posobiec said that the left refers to it as a revolution, but that conservatives just act like it was no big deal. His goal in this episode was the dispell the myths surrounding the 1960s, and to set the record straight. Neff explained that American students are indoctrinated into the myths of the 1960s in elementary grade social studies classes, with the Civil Rights movement, and a "simple moral fable" about how America had slavery, anti-black laws, and then Martin Luther King Jr. broke those laws with civil action.
"Because we get that so young it casts a pallor over everything else we learn about America's founding," Posobiec said, noting that the narrative is that "until the 60s everything that happened was bad." This narrative, they say, changes the way history is learned throughout a student's educational career. But the Civil Rights movement went back to the 1920s with action against racial violence. This was happening over time, gradually, but the narrative is that the US was permanently racist and evil until the Baby Boomers took the reigns in the 1960s.
It turns out, Neff detailed, that the Civil Rights movement, often touted as incredibly peaceful with methods promoted by King, became a violent movement with massive riots. The murder rate rose, and riots decimated neighborhoods in New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, and DC, among others. Police were used to put down some of these riots and uprisings, Posobiec said.
Yet the narrative about these protests was that they were non-violent. The two delved into King himself, saying that it was a myth that the iconic "I Have a Dream speech" was actually what was being fought for. Equal opportunity quickly gave way to an equality of outcomes under pressure from activists and activist groups.
This led to affirmative action and disparate impact, both of which legally mandated an equality of outcomes, which is currently called equity. It is meritocracy, Neff and Posobiec said, that is the key tool for advancement, and not innate characteristics of race and ethnicity.
It was the 1960s that spawned grievance studies departments like gender studies, black studies, and others. Students protesting on college campuses demanded these departments. Black Panther groups, other protest groups, occupied university buildings and administrators just let them do it. Professors who pushed back said these were fake disciplines, but they moved forward anyway. Now, every university has these departments and students are ghettoized into these affinity departments.
Much of this was driven by hippies, which was an influential youth group that also pushed for a sexual revolution alongside the political and racial revolutions being enacted. These hippies were part of the Baby Boomer generation. This generation has always been the biggest and most influential group as they walk through life. Drug use and "free love," were all raised during this era, and each of them has increased radicalism in the US. Christianity was overthrown in a large sense, and their parents' morals were discarded and disdained.
It was also the Baby Boomer hippies who infiltrated universities and turned them into the "permanent factories of wokeness" that the US is dealing with today. "The moral superstructures of all of society were torn down," Posobiec said, while this group was told they could do and have anything they wanted.
In fact, it was the Supreme Court that institutionalized the concept that "diversity is our strength." This was not a concept previously and came to the fore as a means to justify race-based policies. As leftist politicians have taken hold of institutions and major cities, progress has come to a halt.
The series also covered the Spanish Civil War, the Russian Revolution, and the French Terror.
