"purge of alleged liberal bias in Texas school textbooks"
There's nothing "alleged" to it, for quite some time now the liberals have controlled the present, future, etc...(insert 1984 indoctrination quotes of choice). The conservatives went all ostritch in the sand for years, and let the liberals write the latest version of the truth.
Do I agree with what the right wing wackos are trying to insert...not for the most part, but I know for a fact that the left wing wackos have been inserting their B.S. and purging truth that agrees with moderate or right wing views whenever they can.
Sounds like it's just turnabout with a different set of crazies.
Hell, aren't we all supposed to be post-modern anyway...no objective truths anymore and all that crap? So it shouldn't be surprising that whoever is in control at the moment will push their pet agendas as if it were gospel.
We just need to stop pretending that textbooks teach any objective truths. All 5,000 or whatever world-views each need their own "version of the truth" textbooks, right? All are as valid as any other according to the post-modern B.S. ?
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Yes, we need to STOP having education by the nanny state. The government should get it's nose entirely out of education/indoctrination.
"purge of alleged liberal bias in Texas school textbooks"
There's nothing "alleged" to it, for quite some time now the liberals have controlled the present, future, etc...(insert 1984 indoctrination quotes of choice). The conservatives went all ostritch in the sand for years, and let the liberals write the latest version of the truth.
Do I agree with what the right wing wackos are trying to insert...not for the most part, but I know for a fact that the left wing wackos have been inserting their B.S. and purging truth that agrees with moderate or right wing views whenever they can.
Sounds like it's just turnabout with a different set of crazies.
Hell, aren't we all supposed to be post-modern anyway...no objective truths anymore and all that crap? So it shouldn't be surprising that whoever is in control at the moment will push their pet agendas as if it were gospel.
We just need to stop pretending that textbooks teach any objective truths. All 5,000 or whatever world-views each need their own "version of the truth" textbooks, right? All are as valid as any other according to the post-modern B.S. ?