Texas Approves Conservative Curriculum

Macharius writes "Today, the Texas Board of Education approved 11-4 a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the role of Christianity in American history and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light. The article goes on to mention that Texas's textbook approvals carry less influence than they used to due to digital localization technology, but is that even measurable given how many millions of these textbooks will still be used across the country?"

Comments

OXYMORON ALERT

[Philip K Dickhead]

"Republican Philosophy?"

Philosophy is literally, the love of knowledge.

Re:OXYMORON ALERT

[Philip K Dickhead]

Wait til I rip Dems. Then you'll gang-bang so gleefully, the new arse I rip in to their beck end.

Re:OXYMORON ALERT

[tyrione]

Proclaiming to listen to college lectures on tape doesn't tell one much. Which history? Which philosophies? Try reading before listening. You'd be amazed how much more encompassing it is than the Cliff Notes. Reading from various political persuasions indeed makes one a well-rounded human being. At it's logical conclusion it should make one an independent.

Re:OXYMORON ALERT

[Alex Belits]

A Democrat who thinks that all Republicans are selfish ultra-capitalist fundamentalists is a moron.

True. Not all Republicans are ultra-capitalist fundamentalists, some are stupid rednecks, and some are just insane.

Re:OXYMORON ALERT

[shrimppesto]

i don't think they are idiots. i just think they are bad people. is that okay?

Re:Can someone explain please

[Skidborg]

What about the older founders of America? The Pilgrims weren't exactly sparkling examples of atheism, and they're one of the reasons you're not speaking Spanish right now.

Re:Hahahahahah

[Totenglocke]

Our entire culture is based on Judeo-Christian traditions.

Really? "Jesus waterboards!" "Jesus saves - at CitiBank - so it's God's will to bail them out!" "Jesus healed the sick - so you don't need universal healthcare. You need to PRAY more."

BTW - Jesus never said a word against gays or lesbians. Not one. So do like Jesus would - approve same-sex marriage.

Amusingly, since you always hear about nutcase Republicans pushing for "Jesus would want this", I've heard many die-hard liberals using Jesus to try to claim that Jesus would support communism / socialism, so we should be communist / socialist.

Re:liberals

[Totenglocke]

You don't live in the US. In the US that's "classic liberalism" and collectivists are "liberals". They manipulated the change in the meaning of the word so that people such as yourself would think they stand for the polar opposite of what they actually stand for.

Re:Brother Glitch23

[RaigetheFury]

Brother... I find almost everything you said VERY disturbing. You literally are saying "give up, give everything away, let people walk over you and SMILE while they are doing it!". Time for a reality check. The world is not full of God fearing people... hell most people don't even believe in your god.

See: http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups

Let me be very clear. I will not tolerate history being taught with any bearing on religion. Sure, talk about the facts, how religion was rarely used to promote good as history records but used to exploit the stupid and put the fear of god into the poor so they didn't usurp their masters/leaders. I'm much more comfortable talking about facts of history not bringing into account "facts" from a book that there are over 10,000 versions (here's just the accepted english versions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_English_Bible_translations) written by monks who were listening to some guy who claimed to know the word of a being NOONE has ever seen only "HEARD" in 2000 years.

I'm sorry but I don't want my kids hearing this kind of dribble. If you want your kids to hear it fine... do it in religious studies or sunday school but keep it away from HISTORY. No TRUE historian can every say "God said..." he can say "Supposedly Peter said that god said.... ". That's how history and science works. They have to be provable facts and if not you have to use the words "supposedly".

And that's why democrats hate you

[OeLeWaPpErKe]

We are not groups. We are individuals which means we ALL think differently, even if we do share the same label

Why do you think democrats hate you, and find it acceptable to have openly discriminatory behavior against you ?

The difference between republican groups and democrat groups is staggering. In any democrat meeting you get personally attacked for disagreeing on whether global warming should be capitalized or not.

In a republican meeting :
you say "I don't believe in global warming" - and nobody doubts the marriage status of your parents. Instead "why not ?" and an interesting discussion ensues.
you say "I believe nuclear power is the solution to global warming" - and yet nobody suggest you are paid by the evil industry. In fact, even if you ARE paid by the nuclear industry, they're still hearing you out
you say "we can't drill out on california's coast" and they hear you out.

It really doesn't matter where you're coming from, even seemingly openly communist ideas are considered

Any standpoint can get reasoned discussion in a republican meeting. I have yet to visit a democratic meeting where even minor deviations from dogma are tolerated.

One thing I seriously wonder, is how democrats DARE to suggest they are somehow more tolerant than anyone else, on any point at all. It surely is not the case here.

Democrats tolerate exactly one singular opinion, always in flux, always with perfectly innocent victims (no matter how many and how constantly those victims hurt others) and ever-changing villains who copulate constantly with satan and are deserving of execution-on-the-spot.

Republicans live in a changing world, with changing understanding of the world, with many ideas, where everybody is trying to do his best for himself and his community, and where that behavior is perfectly okay.

Individual republicans regularly have quite strong opinions on all sorts of matters, especially matters that affect them. These ideas, unlike in the democrat camp, do not match. Which is, I guess, exactly why the republican party is so tolerant.

Re:You don't live in the US.

[Totenglocke]

Wow, way to not even read my post. I never said that you were against small government, I said the reason WHY the collectivists adopted the name "liberal" was so that they could convince people like you that they ARE for small government / peoples rights.

I also never said that the word was changed, just that in the United States, it has a different connotation due to one party hijacking the term in order to mislead others as to their intentions. That is why in America it is customary to say "classic liberal" to denote the difference between liberalism pre-DNC hijacking and the modern American usage of the term "liberal".

Just because it's SUPPOSED to be "liberal" to mean small government doesn't mean that's what the word means in the modern USA. You won't force society to change back to the proper usage and your rant only serves to 1) confuse the average person and 2) make you out to be an arrogant prick.

Re:You don't live in the US.

[Totenglocke]

So because I pointed out that you don't understand the modern definition of the word in the US (which yes, it is a different definition than it used to be and different from the rest of the world) and that you fail to realize that the meanings of words change over time / location (fag is a derogatory term for homosexual in the US but means cigarette in the UK, gay used to mean happy and now it means homosexual), I'm an arrogant prick? Nice to know that you concede that you messed up. I accept your apology.