Saturday, May 22, 2010

Real Life Horror

If you haven't heard, the Texas State Board of Education has decided to micromanage the content of history textbooks for openly partisan purposes, claiming they are correcting a liberal bias.   Actual historians are horrified.  Along with every Texas parent I know.

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  1. This is worrying. I'm not au fait with the particulars of American history but it's quite clear that this is a Christian fundamentalist wanting to rewrite the textbooks to his way of thinking.

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  2. It's not meerly a Christian fundamentalist view. It's also a sexist and racist point of view. The problem is that he appears to be succeeding. I tell you, it's crazy over here lately!

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  3. Example from a previous set of changes: a photograph of a woman carrying a briefcase was replaced with a woman pulling a cake out of an oven.

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  4. Another example - the "golden triangle" of molasses, to rum, to slaves was renamed the "Atlantic Trade Triangle" and mention of slaves was dropped.

    John

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  5. I hate living in Texas. It's absolutely horrible here. At least my professors aren't as ridiculous, but still...it's a real problem. Many other states use Texas textbooks as a template for their own--so really, this affects ALL states, not just Texas. And now with this new Arizona law, Texans are talking about other radical views--like taking out "ethnic studies" and foreign languages from the classroom.

    UGH!

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