>>15
I don't know about what they teach in classrooms, I diligently avoided history class and branched into hard science (as opposed to humanities) as soon as I could. And while Stalin has a much larger headcount than Hitler (not counting his exquisite terror regime), they are both Satan as far as I'm concerned.
>>14
The fact that people have used civil rights as a disgusting pretext to get extra stuff (such as affirmative action measures or free speech restrictions) doesn't mean that civil rights are a bad thing in themselves, it really just means that
the unwashed masses didn't watch over their (real) civil rights and didn't enforce them.