'Do you even know history?': Pompeo mocked for claiming it's 'dangerous' to teach America's 'racist' founding

Mike Pompeo is being roundly ridiculed after issuing a warning apparently about Critical Race Theory. The 57-year old Christian nationalist, former Trump Secretary of State, and likely 2024 Republican presidential hopeful has been trying to frame himself as the logical successor to Donald Trump. When that didn't work he swung to his comfort zone of being a hard core Christian conservative.
"If we teach that the founding of the United States of America was somehow flawed. It was corrupt. It was racist. That's really dangerous. It strikes at the very foundations of our country," an alarmed Pompeo decreed – forever cementing himself as an authoritarian propagandist.
Many on social media are mocking him, because there's no question that the founding of the United States was flawed and racist. The only question then is, how do we make it better?
Pompeo still believes that part.— stay positive-test negative (@stay positive-test negative) 1625660784
Former Secretary of State argues that slavery was not flawed, corrupt or racist.https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1412109433975488513\u00a0\u2026— Walter Shaub (@Walter Shaub) 1625659212
It was flawed. It was corrupt. It was racist. If we deny our past and omit it from our education we will never realize the promise of what we can be, and heal the wounds that divide us.— Howard Jackson (@Howard Jackson) 1625508365
The Founders themselves thought\u2014and said!\u2014that their founding was in some ways flawed. They argued after 1789 as before. They worried, even agonized, about compromises they\u2019d had to make facing circumstances they hadn\u2019t chosen. The founders were serious people. Trumpists aren\u2019t.https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1412109433975488513\u00a0\u2026— Bill Kristol (@Bill Kristol) 1625660503
Yes the founding of our nation via mass genocide and continued enslavement was flawless. No notes.https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1412109433975488513\u00a0\u2026— Oliver Willis (@Oliver Willis) 1625661643
I still like "Run To The Hills" by Iron Maiden tho\n\n"White man came across the sea\nHe brought us pain and misery\nHe killed our tribes, he killed our creed\nHe took our game for his own need\u2026"— Sec. of Swagger (@Sec. of Swagger) 1625511911
18% of Americans were enslaved by another American at the first census in 1790, one in six of us.\n\nThere is nothing dangerous or anti-American in knowing, learning, or teaching that.— Corbly, Jon (@Corbly, Jon) 1625603798
America was so perfect from day one we only had to amended our constitution over two dozen times and, oh yeah, that civil war thing. Who are these people kidding with this shit?https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1412109433975488513\u00a0\u2026— Dell Cameron (@Dell Cameron) 1625634574
should hear what christianity teaches about the first human beingshttps://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1412109433975488513\u00a0\u2026— elizabeth bruenig (@elizabeth bruenig) 1625622253
I feel like we can admit there were some flaws and still survive as a countryhttps://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1412109433975488513\u00a0\u2026— Matthew Yglesias (@Matthew Yglesias) 1625652201
Tell me you know almost nothing about American history without saying you know almost nothing about American history.https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1412109433975488513\u00a0\u2026— Rep. Steven Woodrow (@Rep. Steven Woodrow) 1625662069
The infallibility of Scripture.https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1412109433975488513\u00a0\u2026— Hend Amry (@Hend Amry) 1625637852
they owned slaves you stupid fuck— mike ferguson (@mike ferguson) 1625624151
The Founding was flawed, that's why there's 27 amendments and thousands of SCOTUS precedents to clarify constitutional ambiguity. The Founding was racist; there was slavery, landed white male only suffrage, and a 3/5ths clause. \n\nIt's a country, not a cult. Get over it, Mike.— nate bowling (collecting vaccines like Thanos) (@nate bowling (collecting vaccines like Thanos)) 1625638230
Bold move to come out against all of the amendments, but okhttps://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1412109433975488513\u00a0\u2026— Pwn All The Things (@Pwn All The Things) 1625660006
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