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Publishing Company Puts Warning Label on Constitution

Wilder Publication is under fire for putting warning labels on copies of historical US documents, including the Constitution. The label warns "This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today." From the article: "The disclaimer goes on to tell parents that they 'might wish to discuss with their children how views on race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and interpersonal relations have changed since this book was written before allowing them to read this classic work.'"

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  1. Oh noes! Teabaggers are outraged! by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm guessing they put this on every "classic" work of literature they publish. You know, the ones busybodies are always trying to censor for the bad words, but really because they portray slavery and racism realistically.

  2. Re:It's morons like this.. by tverbeek · · Score: 0, Troll

    “insulting,” “sickening” and “frankly, horrifying.”

    Yep the fake outrage from the right-wingers is happening just as you'd expect.

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  3. Re:Interpret it correctly by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 1, Troll

    You don't have the freedom to own a modern gun. The Constitution referred only to flintlocks which fired balls down a smoothbore barrel. I'm all for being REALLY strict about the intent of the Founders. And I doubt any of them were thinking of pump shotguns held by Republican men with small cocks.

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  4. Re:Copyright by Miseph · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, this would be a much better place to live if education were available only to those children whose parents can afford to pay for it. Either that, or they can enroll in a school operated by religious extremists who may or may not brainwash children into bizarre, cultish practices and beliefs.

    Then we'd have less poor people clogging our schools AND more devoutly/disturbingly fringe religious whackjobs running around. That's 2 birds with 1 stone.

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  5. Re:"Copyright 2007" by Bigjeff5 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because not only statistics prove that the amount of facts on Fox News is negligible

    Uh, first off, statistics rarely prove anything, and second, citation please?

    Or is this one of those "60% of the time it works every time" made up statistics of yours?

    It’s like a boy who cries wolf 99.9999% of the time, and you want us to trust him on the one time he is right. Well, you know how the story ends...

    Yeah, the townsfolk don't listen to the boy and the wolves get all the sheep. I'm thinking you only got half the lesson from that fable.

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