Young Turks: Update On Crazy Texas Textbook Changes

[CherylK]

Run time: 07:32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJM6UsGM8Sk   Posted on YouTube: May 22, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 28798   Posted on DU: May 24, 2010 By DU Member: CherylK Views on DU: 1102

 
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2010/0519/Texas-textbook-war-Slavery-or-Atlantic-triangular-trade

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1. The republican't war on reality

continues with yet another battle they are destined to loose. They have been trying to impose their own politics all over history for some time now with all sorts of factually incorrect book in the bookstores. Flooding the market with their lies in order to make the lies the truth.
As I often say, the winners do not get to write the history (long term), historians do. And they don't always take the winners word for it, even worse for them, they are not the winners.

[Enthusiast]

2. Their followers are happy to

embrace whatever version of alternate reality the right wing PTB comes up with. A selective convenient history is a handy thing to have. You can hear a version of it on Fox News every day.

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3. Please let those dildos secede...

Let them have their little Dumbfuckistan down there, where reality doesn't exist (although they'll no doubt be lobbying the US Government for foreign aid within the first year) The alternative is to let them pollute the minds of future generations and ultimately turn the whole country into Dumbfuckistan. That's their endgame. Cut 'em loose and cut our losses.

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4. Shouldn't there be a sanity test for public office?