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Ill be honest I'm glad you chose not to submit it. But you are correct it is required reading, and it was required reading in HS civics class and any 101 Intro
by dfc 13y ago
Ill be honest I'm glad you chose not to submit it. But you are correct it is required reading, and it was required reading in HS civics class and any 101 Intro to US History class. Its also tinfoil hat 101 so anyone who would find this interesting would have already stumbled across it if they were not previously exposed to it in a school setting.
I'm all for cypherpunk/tinfoil hat stories on HN. I just expected the stories to be of a higher caliber and more interesting/nuanced than something as rudimentary as wikipedia's coverage of COINTELPRO.
- agf 13y agoI would bet not 1 in 100 high school students ever hear about COINTELPRO in school. If it was ever part of a standard civics curriculum it was briefly in the mid to late 70s.
- dfc 13y agoWe covered it in my american history class in high school (97ish).
- agf 13y agoI took both AP American History and AP Government at about the same time, at a very good school with a pretty liberal teaching staff. I never heard about COINTELPRO in either one. My only exposure to it before college was from my father who was a '70s activist. Even in university, most people in the progressive groups I was a part of hadn't heard of it. You had a very special teacher if you learned about it in High School.