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."

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[roman_mir]

I just thought about it for another minute, I do NOT wish you luck with that. Too many people have suffered for ideas like yours and died in the process of someone trying to set it up to be that way. I wish anyone trying to implement that to die and rot in hell forever, and I am an atheist.

Government giving me a 'meaningful job'. Fuck the Government, fuck anyone who wants to define what is meaningful to me and 'give me a meaningful job'.

Give up your responsibilities in life and give up your freedoms, if you think you have a right to a job, to health-care, to housing, you have to define what it means for it to be a right. For it to be a right it means someone has to GIVE it to you. You are not a King, nobody owns your ass anything. You are born alive, be happy nobody killed you already and didn't eat you for breakfast.