Texas board of education wants to drop Helen Keller and Hillary from history boo
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/16/17866146/texas-board-of-education-thomas-hobbes
The Texas education board has raised eyebrows in recent days after the Dallas Morning News reported a vote it took on Friday to “streamline” social studies curriculum in public schools. The board took a preliminary vote to make a number of changes to curriculum, including scrapping mention of Clinton and Hellen Keller from sections on citizenship and removing a phrase referring to the “optimism of the many immigrants who sought a better life in America.” They also voted to reinsert references to “Judeo-Christian” law, Moses’ influence on the writing of the US’s founding documents, and a reference to the “heroism” of the Alamo’s defenders.
"Fuck women and immigrants" - Texas Education Board, 2018
Absolutely disgusting.
Texas makes most American school textbooks last I've heard
that might have been true a while ago but text books are easier than ever to customize and everyone is on to texas's game of reframing things through a strict conservative lense.
This is why we have to fight back. There are some things you just don't screw with.
It's one thing for an enemy party (and yes, they're the enemy at this point) to seize power in the here and now, but when they start trying to screw with our records and history - especially with how we recount it to future generations - to fit their own ends, that's when it crosses over my "unforgivable" line. They're willing to mangle the truth - one of the things I'd consider universally sacred - and overwrite public perception as yet another way to assert dominance while they still can.
And why? To push more Nazi propaganda. The America of the actual '40s and '50s would be ashamed (ironic, considering how much modern Republicans worship Reagan and pre-1960s white America).
I was going to say why would they drop Helen Keller since she overcame her disability to get a degree and write, and that's really the American Dream right there, but then I looked her up in Wikipedia.
A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, antimilitarism, and other similar causes.
She was a socialist so she's an unperson to conservatives.
Hell, pretty much everything in that line you quoted would "unperson" her to conservatives. To them, you're not American unless you're a big rich macho man who owns slaves and kills brown people for nationalistic glory.
Not if your school is underfunded, don't even have enough money for books for every child, and have to rely on older editions than other schools are using.
Also she was a woman, that's almost as bad.
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