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Texas Schools Board Rewriting US History
suraj.sun picked up a Guardian (UK) piece on the Texas school board and their quest to remake US education in a pro-American, Christian, free enterprise mode. We've been keeping an eye on this story for some time, as it will have an impact far beyond Texas. From the Guardian: "The board is to vote on a sweeping purge of alleged liberal bias in Texas school textbooks in favor of what Dunbar says really matters: a belief in America as a nation chosen by God as a beacon to the world, and free enterprise as the cornerstone of liberty and democracy. ... Those corrections have prompted a blizzard of accusations of rewriting history and indoctrinating children by promoting right-wing views on religion, economics, and guns while diminishing the science of evolution, the civil rights movement, and the horrors of slavery. ... Several changes include sidelining Thomas Jefferson, who favored separation of church and state, while introducing a new focus on the 'significant contributions' of pro-slavery Confederate leaders during the Civil War. ... Study of Sir Isaac Newton is dropped in favor of examining scientific advances through military technology."
Unless there was a "revision" made to 1984...
John Adams? What did he do, he was only President for one term! He didn't write the Declaration of Independence, or go overseas as one of our first major diplomats. That was Jesus, all Jesus!
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Why do you think the GOP is tearing itself apart? Free enterprise is an entirely different religion than Jesusitude. Seriously, read Ayn Rand.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
It's time for the US to give Texas back to Mexico. This will solve many problems, such as: (1) lying textbooks, (2) warmongering presidents, (3) Mexicans illegally streaming across the border for jobs, and (4) country and western music.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Mussolini
Texas: "We must close the ignorance gap with Kansas!"
Table-ized A.I.
Oh, you crazy optimists...
(Incidentally, the above link is on the sane side of the lunatic fringe. The real crazies are the ones who think that Newton was divinely inspired, and they don't want none of Einstien's "Relativist" jew-physics... Yes, there are people who think that the "theory of relativity" is somehow connected to "cultural relativism")
Don't be ridiculous. My copy of 1984 has remained wholly unrevised, unabridged, and unaltered since the day Jeff Bezos wrote it.
Warning, do not approach.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
It's time for the US to give Texas back to Mexico.
Sure. You just have to get the okay from Texans, who'd probably go independent first. For that matter, they'd probably burn their own cities and salt every farm & ranch before joining Mexico.
Manifest Destiny [...] The White Man's Burden. Well meaning ideas
Those notions were born of rationalizations for exploitation, not good intentions.
You can't take the sky from me...
Regulation will *always* be used by the powerful to buttress their power and position. Always.
The only check against that is a limitation on government power. That is what the founding fathers were attempting to do.
Adding regulation only makes matters worse.
Forgive this guy, he has only read the latest Texas version of 1984, which deals more with people joining the Army to become better people, and shooting down evil atheists and muslims.
Forgive this guy, he has only read the latest Texas version of 1984, which deals more with people joining the Army to become better people, and shooting down evil atheists and muslims.
Oh yes, the Heinlein version!