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Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills
An anonymous reader writes "Texas Republican delegates met earlier this month to put together their 2012 platform. Much of this focused on the educational system. Alarmingly, they openly state that they oppose schools teaching critical thinking, on the grounds that it may challenge 'student's fixed beliefs' and undermine 'parental authority.' Page 12 of their official platform (PDF) discusses their thinking on teaching thinking."
Fascinating that you distort 1984 there, but let me tell you what this is really about:
For liberals: "Higher Order Thinking Skills" is "Democrats Good! Republicans Bad! The Federal Government is our new God and our very survival depends solely on handouts we receive for being compliant tools! Independent thought is the racist war on women!"
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
No, I used to believe like you still do, that they are just ignorant. I no longer do. I now believe many of them are truly evil. They read 1984 and saw an instruction manual for how to reorder a society instead of a warning.
Remember, Dr. Evil is funny because he admits being a villian, that almost never actually happens. No, people with totally fudged up inverted moral compasses convince themselves that the wicked things they desire are not wicked, nay they are good and desirable things. Do you wonder why they keep calling us evil for believing in the traditional values of Western Civ? Usually we shrug it off as hyperbole. I submit that it isn't. That their moral compasses are so twisted that when viewed from their p.o.v. we truly ARE evil. The converse of course is also true, as it by definition must be. Not pleasant thoughts, but there they are on an otherwise terrible day for liberty.
Democrat delenda est
Corpora punishment isn't effective any where.
Unless you goal is to create a fearful child who will be afraid to speak.
Texas keep threatening to leave, but fuck, there still part of the states.
Bunch of lying cowards.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
> I mean, you're argument almost always have come down to ad hom attacks.
I think you meant ad hominem but since it does not apply I'm not sure.
Democrat delenda est
Yes. You see there are parts of Texas where wind farming might actually be profitable someday. So of course the greens went right to work finding a mascot to rally around to stop any such notion. Cue the Dune Sagebrush Lizard.
With progressives it is never what they say in public that should be considered, but what they say when they don't think anyone else is listening to some boring CSPAN crap. It isn't about alternative energy, it is about forcing people to use LESS energy, period. So a successful 'alternative' source is just as bad a coal from their perspective.
Democrat delenda est