"Tea Party wants slavery removed from student textbooks."

[KnightOwl]

This bit from the article...

In material distributed to the legislators, they demanded that state laws governing textbook criteria ensure that "no portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority of citizens, including those who reached positions of leadership."
(emphasis in original)

seems to say it all to me. These particular bozos are simply racists. I say, the more info the better. Cockroaches don't like sunlight.

 

[Revoltingest]

Here we go again - when you're talking to the American right, whatever the subject, all roads lead to Obama.

If you'd been paying attention, you'd see that i was responding to partisan accusations of threatening violence.
Obama's quote shows the double standard lefties conveniently use. He is the prez, after all, so he represents them.
Foolish socialilst...I'm not on the right. I'm a classical liberal.

 

[blackout]

Too bad we didn't get a separation of education and state along with church and state.

You have my total agreement.:clap

 

[Alceste]

If you'd been paying attention, you'd see that i was responding to partisan accusations of threatening violence.
Obama's quote shows the double standard lefties conveniently use. He is the prez, after all, so he represents them.
Foolish socialilst...I'm not on the right. I'm a classical liberal.

So if I can find a violent quote from before 2008 from the right do I win, or what? Authoritarians are completely contemptible thugs who enjoy violent imagery and language, whether left or right. For now, the most authoritarian wing of American politics happens to be on the right. That doesn't mean Democratic leaders aren't also on the right, and aren't also a bunch of authoritarian thugs. I think it's safe to say, though, that the Repugnicans are further right, more authoritarian and therefore more prone to violent imagery and language.

 

[Comicaze247]

This is absolutely ridiculous. Though, I'm not surprised.

"Those who can't remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana

There's already a lack of information in textbooks about the slaughter of Native Americans and the Japanese internment camps, they want to add slavery to that list too? Jeebus . . .

Libertarians have no skeletons in their closet with respect to Democrats, who first defended slavery & then Jim Crow.

You fail to mention how Democrats, back in those days, while they were economically leftist, they were also socially rightist, with the Republicans being the opposite. Long since then, the parties have switched sides on social aspects. So the fact that the Democratic party defended slavery and Jim Crow back then has no legitimate bearing on the party today, who are clearly socially leftist in comparison the Republican party.

 

[stupified]

I am three quarters convinced that the failure of our schools is a plot by our politicians and leaders to dumb us down for easier manipulation.

Like, today, I posted on my blog a tight little summary of the steps the US Government takes when it wants to demonize someone. The US Government takes the same steps each time -- regardless of whether the target is Sadam Hussein, Julian Assange or someone else. So, I was thinking as I posted those steps that, if our system were a bit more geared to producing good citizens than to merely producing good workers, those steps would be taught in classrooms so that people would be better able to defend themselves when their government lies to them. But no way is that ever going to happen.

Great post.

 

[KnightOwl]

Comicaze247, I love your avatar. I literally LOL'd and now can't get that tune out of my head.

 

[Revoltingest]

So if I can find a violent quote from before 2008 from the right do I win, or what?

Nope. Violent quotes are all over the place. And one sides metaphor is
another's threat, so the argument becomes one of misinterpretation.

Authoritarians are completely contemptible thugs who enjoy violent imagery and language, whether left or right. For now, the most authoritarian wing of American politics happens to be on the right.

Of course, you would believe that. Were you on the right, you'd believe
the left is more authoritarian. That's how things go when we pick sides.

This is absolutely ridiculous. Though, I'm not surprised.
Those who can't remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana
There's already a lack of information in textbooks about the slaughter of Native Americans and the Japanese internment camps, they want to add slavery to that list too? Jeebus . . .

The government has also 'protected' us from things which would make other countries look bad.
It was only recently that we were allowed access to some Japanese atrocities in China, such as cannibalism.
Anyway...this accusation that the Tea Party (not just a few loopy members) wants to hide slavery, smells
like a disingenuous over-generalization to me.

You fail to mention how Democrats, back in those days, while they were economically leftist, they were also socially rightist, with the Republicans being the opposite. Long since then, the parties have switched sides on social aspects. So the fact that the Democratic party defended slavery and Jim Crow back then has no legitimate bearing on the party today, who are clearly socially leftist in comparison the Republican party.

I don't see the reversal in agendas you claim. It's only been recently (in my lifetime) that Jim Crow disappeared.
Many Republicans voted for modern civil rights laws, & many Democrats fought this. Such differences have
mellowed, but my primary point is that both parties will support authoritarian & thuggish government. Of
all people, it took a Republican goon like Nixon to create an all-volunteer military....the most libertarian act
I've ever experienced.

 

[Civil Shephard]

Oh hell... I think we should throw the Tea Party into interment camps... and let Muslim run them.