Paul Dans
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And I'm hearing about this kind of...
incubated cultural marxism okay my two sisters both went to princeton so we were like this kind of family of nerds right that my dad was a professor my mom was a public school teacher and we were all about education you know gifted and talented always always striving um but we began to get this dosage of
Of cultural Marxism.
What was interesting though, was we came up at the end of kind of the Cold War period.
So in public schools in Baltimore County, they actually were teaching Russian.
And my three siblings learned Russian from probably a retired CIA agent.
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Oh, for sure.
But they were the last off the production line of kind of, you know, red-blooded Americans who could speak Russian.
And, you know, my parents had this, just a great ability to encourage
inculcate us with values and arts.
And my mom was a pianist.
She turned down the scholarship to Eastman School of Music to go to college at Trinity in Washington, the first of the full scholarship.
So that's, I never fell for it.
And I felt quite the opposite.
I pursued economics at MIT and then ultimately a master in urban planning.
And that's where I became, if you will, a community organizer.
Later on, knocked Obama was the community organizer in chief.
But that's where they were training, also starting a lot of this kind of training.
indigenous people work and kind of questioning of American society from a social organizing sort of point of view.