Conservatives, on average, care a lot about what the RULES are, that there be a STRONG LEADER, that social change be as slow as possible, and they long for the mythical good old days. Liberals, on average, care a lot about FAIRNESS, that everyone be given an equal chance, that social change be for the better, and pretty quickly too, and they long for Camelot. Interestingly, conservatives have a much stronger visceral reaction to “icky” than liberals.
Knowing that, we can easily see how the GQP’s leadership feeds their base with things like this. Science is demonized and the base loves it because science causes change (and because scientists are so damn snooty about knowing more than you do! And books are the most dangerous of all: Kids who read end up going to college, and then they don’t come home again! — Which is proof that college is a conspiracy to steal the kids.
History isn’t so bad: They can force schools to teach from the “approved” texts. But they sure do want to burn the histories that tell it from any POV other than their own.
At least they’re not burning the book that talks about loving thy neighbor. It’s the same one that many see a twice impeached former President holding upside down, but can’t give us his favorite verse as it’s too personal.
Will a movement based on ignorance, denial, lies, [alt history/reality], distrust, disrespect, and hatred, in a faction that already feels that democracy no longer protects them and their nationalist [actually white, male, christian] identity be the undoing of our society? Or will knowledge, truth, honesty, integrity, trust, respect, and love of fellow humans prevail?
The Cultural Revolution. The Red Guards. The attacks on books, intellectuals, and teachers. The censorship. The violence. The destruction. The fanatics. The worship of the cult leader.
Of course, the Qpublicans somehow seem to forget that you can actually go BUY MORE COPIES OF WHATEVER BOOKS THEY ARE BURNING, or even DOWNLOAD THEM FROM THE INTERNET!! Morons…
They are still stuck in the mental mindset of their heroes in Germany during the mid- 1930s…
Marxist Disciple Democrats on each editorial comment page often announce and even encourage a flagging campaign against the conservative opinion as an attempt to silence every conservative opinion. Liberalism is Communism
I want to comment on the difficult problem of selecting books for school curriculum, but I don’t want to be engaging in fruitless back-and-forth with idiots. So I will do it here, rather than above. First, removing a book from the curriculum is not the same as banning it. That should be pretty obvious. Second, it’s not at all easy to choose the best books for any particular grade level. I teach at a university, and I include readings that would not be appropriate for elementary schools or high schools. When I was an undergraduate I was taught Ovid’s “Art of Love” by a wonderful professor who happened to be a nun, and she taught it all, including some pretty raunchy bits. I wouldn’t teach that in high school. I wouldn’t teach Rabelais in high school, but he was on the curriculum when I was in first year university. What about race? There’s a kind of casual racism in a lot of nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature. We now longer simply accept that, and quite rightly so. So when you teach those books it makes sense to have some discussion of why they are offensive and how we should read them. Younger students may not yet be able to understand that discussion, so perhaps the books should be reserved for later. Huckleberry Finn is an interesting case—and there’s a lot of good pedagogical debate about whether or not it should be taught and when and how. My wife recently reread it, and she was shocked, especially by the later parts of the novel. In my opinion, there are good artistic reasons for what Twain does there, and I would keep the book in a college curriculum, but not in high school. There’s lots more to be said about all of this. I guess my point is that we have to understand that times and standards change, and as teachers we have to be sensitive to our students and to the larger community, while insisting on the importance of an education that can include topics and readings that are disturbing.
‘Stop the Steal’ organizer fingered the GOP lawmakers he communicated with to House riot committee
According to a report from Politico, Ali Alexander — one of the principles behind the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the storming of the U.S. Capitol — has handed over names of Republican Party lawmakers he was in communication with prior to the events on Jan 6th.
The report notes that, in the late Friday court filing, Alexander admits he had “a few phone conversations” with Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and engaged in a “text exchange with Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL).”
Politico reports that Alexander also implicated Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) saying he was in contact in person “and never by phone, to the best of his recollection,” according to his lawyers.
He adds, “The panel hasn’t formally requested testimony from any of the GOP lawmakers yet but has continued to ask witnesses about Gosar, Biggs, Brooks and Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), who helped push a strategy to use the Department of Justice to promote the fraud claims.”
The report also adds that Alexander was in contact with Trump campaign official Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is also the girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr., on the morning of the insurrection, but that it was just a courtesy call where she thanked him for organizing the rally.
Mitch McConnell is undermining ‘incompetent’ Trump as his grip on the GOP slips
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is successfully trolling Donald Trump and keeping him on edge with his comments about the House Jan 6th committee with the full knowledge that the former president can’t touch him.
Linking events of the week together, Lewis suggested that Trump’s broadsides at McConnell urging Senate Republicans to drop his as their leader are falling on deaf ears, while McConnell is making Trump’s life more difficult.
According to the conservative columnist, McConnell appears to feel free to undermine Trump by giving his approval of the work being done investigating the Jan 6th Capitol riot that could ultimately cripple his political future.
McConnell (who has been unanimously elected leader by his caucus every two years since 2006) is as good at the inside game of politics as Trump is at gaslighting Republican voters."
Writing “… while McConnell may not be looking to start a direct fight with Trump, he’s clearly not above trolling him,” Lewis then ticked off the Kentucky Republican’s comments on the Jan 6th riot committee that have, in turn, incurred Trump’s wrath.
People can “Encourage” me to not read a book based on THEIR feelings about it, but “TELLING ME” that I cannot read based on THEIR feelings about it is one of the fastest ways of getting me TO read it.
By the way, why are more Conservatives not complaining about a book that contains Multiple Murders, Attempted Genocide, Incestuous Relationships between family members, Homosexual Relationships, Greed, Racial Discrimination, Sex with Animals, and every other “Sin” they can think of?? Oh wait… it’s called “The Bible”, and there was a picture of their fat orange false god holding one upside down, so that must make it all right.
To those who say that they, “don’t believe in science,” I say, “throw away your cellphone and don’t fly or drive. Phones, airplanes and cars can’t exist according to your beliefs.”
And Republican Jesus said, Take ye this Constitution and don’t read it except to make changes and interpret the 2nd amendment as thou wilt, sacrifice thyself to ignorance of science, and goodwill unto all, but anything else is socialism!
We used to live in a rural community, mostly unemployed or retired loggers, or workers on social security disability, dairy farms, and commuters to towns 50 miles away where there were jobs . The locals did not want their children (grandchildren) to go to college because they knew they would lose them. Once away from the hyper-religious, anti-abortion, anti-anything that actually would benefit low income people, and super conservative politics of the area, young people getting an education would sniff the air of different ideas and broader opportunities, and would find ways to escape to new ways of life and thinking. I fear the anti-democratic goals of the current republican party and their effort to maintain minority rule. But their determination to kill off their adherents by denying health safeguards like masks, and jabs, and protecting their children, all in their devotion to a dishonest grifter who is only capable of lying about everything and his enablers who are stuffing their own pockets with the “believer’s” cash, gives me a sad comfort that one day they will awaken and realize how they have been led into suffering an hardship. They continue to be conned every dawning day. When will they wake up?
Capitol rioter facing 53 counts including robbery and assault denied release from jail
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, lawyers for Robert Morss, 28, of Glenshaw filed a motion to free their client pending his trial, only to see it slapped aside by U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden on Friday.
According to the report, Morss — who was taken into custody in June — is “a former substitute teacher in the Shaler Area School District and an Afghanistan combat veteran.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Melissa Jackson informed the court that Morss has shown no regret for his actions, explaining, “Every person who was present without authority in the Capitol on January 6 contributed to the chaos of that day and the danger posed to law enforcement, the United States Vice President, members of Congress, and the peaceful transfer of power. However, Morss violently led that effort and thus his specific conduct aggravated that chaos and danger.”
She added, “In short, Morss came prepared for violence and then repeatedly led the violent mob attacking law enforcement in an effort to overtake the Capitol,”. His actions inherently prove he is a danger to the community at large, and the law enforcement officers who stand in the way of his ideological beliefs, whose safety can only be assured by his detention."
No….. left, radical democrats want these subjects rewritten to their radical thought. History, science and biology should not be subject to the whims of a political party.
In the leadup to her election, Politico revealed that Greene had once ardently subscribed to QAnon, the notion that a cabal of Satan-worshipping Democratic elites are running a global child sex trafficking operation. The Georgia freshman also reportedly endorsed the idea that the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida was a false-flag affair orchestrated by the gun control lobby. Perhaps most famously, Greene once suggested that the deadliest California wildfire was an arson carried out by Rothschild-owned space lasers.
Five years ago, Greene’s checkered past – rife with conspiracies fueled by racism, antisemitism, and Islamophobia – might have precluded a career in federal policymaking. But if anything, her past improprieties were just tasters for the chaotic entree to come.
Following the Capitol riot, fueled in no small part by her claims of election fraud, the Georgia lawmaker repeatedly downplayed the insurrection that left five dead and 140 police officers injured, claiming that it may have been infiltrated by antifa agitators. Just before Trump’s impeachment trial, in which the former president faced charges of inciting the riot, the Georgia lawmaker went so far as to attribute the riot – led by Trump supporters – to Democrats, arguing that the party “must be held accountable for the political violence inspired by their rhetoric.”
Lonecat wrote an eloquent and informative post above. It explains in very gentle terms why many parents in this nation are on a campaign to clean up SCHOOL libraries and SCHOOL curriculum.
Parents are correctly concerned over schools teaching age inappropriate materials that cover social issues best handled at home during a child’s formative years. And as even Martens agreed, some of the materials offered at the HS level should be shifted to college level courses.
No one in the GOP or any other group want to burn books or ban books. What they want is to retain their parental right to at least be informed and consulted about access and teaching topics that are hot-button issues. In some cases we are seeing CRT concepts being taught to children as young as 5-7 years old. When the black father of an mixed race 7 year old shows up and complains that the school told his daughter that her white mother is a racist, it is obvious that that school has a serious problem.
When prepubescent children are given access to, sometimes even steered towards books that encourage casual sex, explore non-hetero sex, gender identity issues and the like, that school has a serious problem.
Teaching basic history in K-8 is a given. Exploring modern social issues, especially with a bias has absolutely no place at those grade levels. Even in HS those topics must be handled very carefully, with special attention to keeping the coursework and teacher input totally neutral.
There are lines that simply must not be crossed. Teaching that slavery is bad and wrong and oppressive is OK. Teaching the history of racism in America, the history of slavery is another topic that MUST be explored. However, teaching concepts about collective post slavery guilt, that modern whites share the sins of those from previous generations…this is what enrages parents.
This is oh so true! Republicans want to keep us ignorant so that we are easily manipulated into believing B.S. such as microchips in vaccinations, Earth is flat, and tRump won the 2020 election.
B 8671 over 2 years ago
The republigoon party is the new NAZI party for the 21st. Century.
RAGs over 2 years ago
GOP 451
Concretionist over 2 years ago
Conservatives, on average, care a lot about what the RULES are, that there be a STRONG LEADER, that social change be as slow as possible, and they long for the mythical good old days. Liberals, on average, care a lot about FAIRNESS, that everyone be given an equal chance, that social change be for the better, and pretty quickly too, and they long for Camelot. Interestingly, conservatives have a much stronger visceral reaction to “icky” than liberals.
Knowing that, we can easily see how the GQP’s leadership feeds their base with things like this. Science is demonized and the base loves it because science causes change (and because scientists are so damn snooty about knowing more than you do! And books are the most dangerous of all: Kids who read end up going to college, and then they don’t come home again! — Which is proof that college is a conspiracy to steal the kids.
History isn’t so bad: They can force schools to teach from the “approved” texts. But they sure do want to burn the histories that tell it from any POV other than their own.
rekam Premium Member over 2 years ago
Thank you, Clay.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
They want to end American democracy because the majority voted them out.
jessie d. over 2 years ago
along with their omygod aka omicron and their personal contaminant just ask any of their victims the first being Christie of course.
FreyjaRN Premium Member over 2 years ago
Sacrilege. So typical of the tiny-minded QOP.
sevaar777 over 2 years ago
The Constitution is sandwiched between the books in the flames.
The Love of Money is . . . over 2 years ago
At least they’re not burning the book that talks about loving thy neighbor. It’s the same one that many see a twice impeached former President holding upside down, but can’t give us his favorite verse as it’s too personal.
superposition over 2 years ago
Will a movement based on ignorance, denial, lies, [alt history/reality], distrust, disrespect, and hatred, in a faction that already feels that democracy no longer protects them and their nationalist [actually white, male, christian] identity be the undoing of our society? Or will knowledge, truth, honesty, integrity, trust, respect, and love of fellow humans prevail?
monya_43 over 2 years ago
Unfortunately, that is their fire for all seasons. Dolt45 said that he loves the uneducated. They don’t notice all the lies he constantly tells.
VegaAlopex over 2 years ago
Unlike “Fahrenheit 451”, one cannot burn books on the internet.
Zebrastripes over 2 years ago
Brainwashed, dumbed down, violent, belligerent, hate filled herd of sheep….
BAAAAAAD for AMERICA!
The Nodding Head over 2 years ago
To read too many books is harmful —Mao
The Cultural Revolution. The Red Guards. The attacks on books, intellectuals, and teachers. The censorship. The violence. The destruction. The fanatics. The worship of the cult leader.
It’s happening all over again. Here.
Masterskrain over 2 years ago
Of course, the Qpublicans somehow seem to forget that you can actually go BUY MORE COPIES OF WHATEVER BOOKS THEY ARE BURNING, or even DOWNLOAD THEM FROM THE INTERNET!! Morons…
They are still stuck in the mental mindset of their heroes in Germany during the mid- 1930s…
Durak Premium Member over 2 years ago
Not on my watch.
Valiant1943 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Fahrenheit 451?
phredturner over 2 years ago
Christian Taliban
Sun over 2 years ago
Totalitarian Democrat Communists encourage censorship, and book burning.
Sun over 2 years ago
Marxist Disciple Democrats on each editorial comment page often announce and even encourage a flagging campaign against the conservative opinion as an attempt to silence every conservative opinion. Liberalism is Communism
BB71 over 2 years ago
This year`s Yule Log brought to you by the Democrat Party.
Alberta Oil Premium Member over 2 years ago
Historians will note that Americans good run was brought down by its signature slogan, Free Speech. Free.. but Irresponsible Speech.
LeeGP over 2 years ago
Suppressed/burnt any good books lately?
akachman Premium Member over 2 years ago
me, blue-faced: this is how Nazi Germany started. It’s going to be a complicated war.
lonecat over 2 years ago
I want to comment on the difficult problem of selecting books for school curriculum, but I don’t want to be engaging in fruitless back-and-forth with idiots. So I will do it here, rather than above. First, removing a book from the curriculum is not the same as banning it. That should be pretty obvious. Second, it’s not at all easy to choose the best books for any particular grade level. I teach at a university, and I include readings that would not be appropriate for elementary schools or high schools. When I was an undergraduate I was taught Ovid’s “Art of Love” by a wonderful professor who happened to be a nun, and she taught it all, including some pretty raunchy bits. I wouldn’t teach that in high school. I wouldn’t teach Rabelais in high school, but he was on the curriculum when I was in first year university. What about race? There’s a kind of casual racism in a lot of nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature. We now longer simply accept that, and quite rightly so. So when you teach those books it makes sense to have some discussion of why they are offensive and how we should read them. Younger students may not yet be able to understand that discussion, so perhaps the books should be reserved for later. Huckleberry Finn is an interesting case—and there’s a lot of good pedagogical debate about whether or not it should be taught and when and how. My wife recently reread it, and she was shocked, especially by the later parts of the novel. In my opinion, there are good artistic reasons for what Twain does there, and I would keep the book in a college curriculum, but not in high school. There’s lots more to be said about all of this. I guess my point is that we have to understand that times and standards change, and as teachers we have to be sensitive to our students and to the larger community, while insisting on the importance of an education that can include topics and readings that are disturbing.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Roger Stone said he invoked his Fifth Amendment right to not answer questions when he appeared today before the Jan. 6 select committee.
A reminder that in 2016, Trump said: “The mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
‘Stop the Steal’ organizer fingered the GOP lawmakers he communicated with to House riot committee
According to a report from Politico, Ali Alexander — one of the principles behind the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the storming of the U.S. Capitol — has handed over names of Republican Party lawmakers he was in communication with prior to the events on Jan 6th.
The report notes that, in the late Friday court filing, Alexander admits he had “a few phone conversations” with Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and engaged in a “text exchange with Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL).”
Politico reports that Alexander also implicated Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) saying he was in contact in person “and never by phone, to the best of his recollection,” according to his lawyers.
He adds, “The panel hasn’t formally requested testimony from any of the GOP lawmakers yet but has continued to ask witnesses about Gosar, Biggs, Brooks and Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), who helped push a strategy to use the Department of Justice to promote the fraud claims.”
The report also adds that Alexander was in contact with Trump campaign official Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is also the girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr., on the morning of the insurrection, but that it was just a courtesy call where she thanked him for organizing the rally.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-stop-the-steal-2656065834/
vegburg over 2 years ago
So , as long as you do the censoring, it’d probably be ok?
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Mitch McConnell is undermining ‘incompetent’ Trump as his grip on the GOP slips
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is successfully trolling Donald Trump and keeping him on edge with his comments about the House Jan 6th committee with the full knowledge that the former president can’t touch him.
Linking events of the week together, Lewis suggested that Trump’s broadsides at McConnell urging Senate Republicans to drop his as their leader are falling on deaf ears, while McConnell is making Trump’s life more difficult.
According to the conservative columnist, McConnell appears to feel free to undermine Trump by giving his approval of the work being done investigating the Jan 6th Capitol riot that could ultimately cripple his political future.
McConnell (who has been unanimously elected leader by his caucus every two years since 2006) is as good at the inside game of politics as Trump is at gaslighting Republican voters."
Writing “… while McConnell may not be looking to start a direct fight with Trump, he’s clearly not above trolling him,” Lewis then ticked off the Kentucky Republican’s comments on the Jan 6th riot committee that have, in turn, incurred Trump’s wrath.
https://www.rawstory.com/mitch-mcconnell-donald-trump-2656065707/
Masterskrain over 2 years ago
People can “Encourage” me to not read a book based on THEIR feelings about it, but “TELLING ME” that I cannot read based on THEIR feelings about it is one of the fastest ways of getting me TO read it.
By the way, why are more Conservatives not complaining about a book that contains Multiple Murders, Attempted Genocide, Incestuous Relationships between family members, Homosexual Relationships, Greed, Racial Discrimination, Sex with Animals, and every other “Sin” they can think of?? Oh wait… it’s called “The Bible”, and there was a picture of their fat orange false god holding one upside down, so that must make it all right.DEACON FRED over 2 years ago
Brought to you by the previous Administration!!
casonia2 over 2 years ago
Spot on, Clay!
patriots_aren't_partisan over 2 years ago
To those who say that they, “don’t believe in science,” I say, “throw away your cellphone and don’t fly or drive. Phones, airplanes and cars can’t exist according to your beliefs.”
walkingmancomics over 2 years ago
And Republican Jesus said, Take ye this Constitution and don’t read it except to make changes and interpret the 2nd amendment as thou wilt, sacrifice thyself to ignorance of science, and goodwill unto all, but anything else is socialism!
dickanders Premium Member over 2 years ago
We used to live in a rural community, mostly unemployed or retired loggers, or workers on social security disability, dairy farms, and commuters to towns 50 miles away where there were jobs . The locals did not want their children (grandchildren) to go to college because they knew they would lose them. Once away from the hyper-religious, anti-abortion, anti-anything that actually would benefit low income people, and super conservative politics of the area, young people getting an education would sniff the air of different ideas and broader opportunities, and would find ways to escape to new ways of life and thinking. I fear the anti-democratic goals of the current republican party and their effort to maintain minority rule. But their determination to kill off their adherents by denying health safeguards like masks, and jabs, and protecting their children, all in their devotion to a dishonest grifter who is only capable of lying about everything and his enablers who are stuffing their own pockets with the “believer’s” cash, gives me a sad comfort that one day they will awaken and realize how they have been led into suffering an hardship. They continue to be conned every dawning day. When will they wake up?
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Maybe a book burning started the Fox xmas tree fire.
Ontman over 2 years ago
No serious troll arguments today. They are all ludicrous.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Capitol rioter facing 53 counts including robbery and assault denied release from jail
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, lawyers for Robert Morss, 28, of Glenshaw filed a motion to free their client pending his trial, only to see it slapped aside by U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden on Friday.
According to the report, Morss — who was taken into custody in June — is “a former substitute teacher in the Shaler Area School District and an Afghanistan combat veteran.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Melissa Jackson informed the court that Morss has shown no regret for his actions, explaining, “Every person who was present without authority in the Capitol on January 6 contributed to the chaos of that day and the danger posed to law enforcement, the United States Vice President, members of Congress, and the peaceful transfer of power. However, Morss violently led that effort and thus his specific conduct aggravated that chaos and danger.”
She added, “In short, Morss came prepared for violence and then repeatedly led the violent mob attacking law enforcement in an effort to overtake the Capitol,”. His actions inherently prove he is a danger to the community at large, and the law enforcement officers who stand in the way of his ideological beliefs, whose safety can only be assured by his detention."
https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-rioter-2656066269/
jms.ed.brs over 2 years ago
No….. left, radical democrats want these subjects rewritten to their radical thought. History, science and biology should not be subject to the whims of a political party.
maguid Premium Member over 2 years ago
A Kindle account is fire-proof, water-proof, & ______-proof.
theoldidahofox over 2 years ago
The GOP: Psychopathologically afraid of knowledge.
pamela welch Premium Member over 2 years ago
Great artwork, Clay!
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
2021’s biggest troll: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
In the leadup to her election, Politico revealed that Greene had once ardently subscribed to QAnon, the notion that a cabal of Satan-worshipping Democratic elites are running a global child sex trafficking operation. The Georgia freshman also reportedly endorsed the idea that the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida was a false-flag affair orchestrated by the gun control lobby. Perhaps most famously, Greene once suggested that the deadliest California wildfire was an arson carried out by Rothschild-owned space lasers.
Five years ago, Greene’s checkered past – rife with conspiracies fueled by racism, antisemitism, and Islamophobia – might have precluded a career in federal policymaking. But if anything, her past improprieties were just tasters for the chaotic entree to come.
Following the Capitol riot, fueled in no small part by her claims of election fraud, the Georgia lawmaker repeatedly downplayed the insurrection that left five dead and 140 police officers injured, claiming that it may have been infiltrated by antifa agitators. Just before Trump’s impeachment trial, in which the former president faced charges of inciting the riot, the Georgia lawmaker went so far as to attribute the riot – led by Trump supporters – to Democrats, arguing that the party “must be held accountable for the political violence inspired by their rhetoric.”
https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-2656065497/
Republicans have nothing except hatred, lies and insults.
Andylit Premium Member over 2 years ago
Lonecat wrote an eloquent and informative post above. It explains in very gentle terms why many parents in this nation are on a campaign to clean up SCHOOL libraries and SCHOOL curriculum.
Parents are correctly concerned over schools teaching age inappropriate materials that cover social issues best handled at home during a child’s formative years. And as even Martens agreed, some of the materials offered at the HS level should be shifted to college level courses.
No one in the GOP or any other group want to burn books or ban books. What they want is to retain their parental right to at least be informed and consulted about access and teaching topics that are hot-button issues. In some cases we are seeing CRT concepts being taught to children as young as 5-7 years old. When the black father of an mixed race 7 year old shows up and complains that the school told his daughter that her white mother is a racist, it is obvious that that school has a serious problem.
When prepubescent children are given access to, sometimes even steered towards books that encourage casual sex, explore non-hetero sex, gender identity issues and the like, that school has a serious problem.
Teaching basic history in K-8 is a given. Exploring modern social issues, especially with a bias has absolutely no place at those grade levels. Even in HS those topics must be handled very carefully, with special attention to keeping the coursework and teacher input totally neutral.
There are lines that simply must not be crossed. Teaching that slavery is bad and wrong and oppressive is OK. Teaching the history of racism in America, the history of slavery is another topic that MUST be explored. However, teaching concepts about collective post slavery guilt, that modern whites share the sins of those from previous generations…this is what enrages parents.
IDEALeducation over 2 years ago
That is Dr. You People, please. https://www.nature.com/articles/518288a
FreyatheWanderer over 2 years ago
This is oh so true! Republicans want to keep us ignorant so that we are easily manipulated into believing B.S. such as microchips in vaccinations, Earth is flat, and tRump won the 2020 election.