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Acrimony 101

TamTam Registered User regular
edited March 2010 in Social Entropy++
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html?hp
After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light.

The vote was 10 to 5 along party lines, with all the Republicans on the board voting for it.
“We are adding balance,” said Dr. Don McLeroy, the leader of the conservative faction on the board, after the vote. “History has already been skewed. Academia is skewed too far to the left.”
“I reject the notion by the left of a constitutional separation of church and state,” said David Bradley, a conservative from Beaumont who works in real estate. “I have $1,000 for the charity of your choice if you can find it in the Constitution.”
He also won approval for an amendment stressing that Germans and Italians as well as Japanese were interned in the United States during World War II, to counter the idea that the internment of Japanese was motivated by racism.

I'm surprised the moderates held out this long

I guess we could also talk about the state of education in America in general

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  • DadouwDadouw Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I say nuke texas

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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I dunno, man

    feel like its gonna turn into one big lolrepublicans threads

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  • Dorktron9000Dorktron9000 Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    As a product of the public school system, I can absolutely say this doesn't fucking make a difference

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  • VoproSTEINVoproSTEIN howdyRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    not one "ya'll" quoted from the article?

    can't be texas.

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  • Cold Salmon and HatredCold Salmon and Hatred __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2010
    i say nuke quebec

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  • alternatingAberrationalternatingAberration I am the milk man My milk is deliciousRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I am so embarrassed for my state.

    Man.

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Dadouw wrote: »
    I say nuke texas

    That will only make them more powerful.

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  • Wrench N RocketsWrench N Rockets Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Tam wrote: »
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html?hp
    “I reject the notion by the left of a constitutional separation of church and state,” said David Bradley, a conservative from Beaumont who works in real estate. “I have $1,000 for the charity of your choice if you can find it in the Constitution.”

    I

    What

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    i say nuke quebec

    That will only make them more french.

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Thankfully McLeroy is being outed by a more moderate board member once his term is up at the end of the year, but yes, this is an awful thing.

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  • DaricDaric Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Uh, education has been skewed far to the left for a long time

    fuck everybody that's not from Texas

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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    dammit

    so hard not to flip out, though

    fdsalfkhsdlfahlfdhs

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  • VoproSTEINVoproSTEIN howdyRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    also, further reason for me to hate texas and want to move as fast as I can.

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  • Cold Salmon and HatredCold Salmon and Hatred __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2010
    hey dadouw graves is maybe probably coming to visit end of april

    you should
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  • SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Daric wrote: »
    Uh, education has been skewed far to the left for a long time

    fuck everybody that's not from Texas
    good troll daric

    excellent troll!

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Daric wrote: »
    Uh, education has been skewed far to the left for a long time

    fuck everybody that's not from Texas

    That will only make them more powerful.

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  • .avi.avi regular
    edited March 2010
    idk how to react to that

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  • DadouwDadouw Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    i say nuke quebec

    I'll nuke your sister

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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Daric wrote: »
    Uh, education has been skewed far to the left for a long time

    fuck everybody that's not from Texas

    every side says that about the other

    I'm not saying that anybody is wrong or right

    but I've never seen that line of thinking result in any progress

    I think the biggest problem education faces is politics muddying up the tachyons

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2010
    What, really?

    Doesn't believe in the constitutional separation of church and state?

    "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,"

    I would like the $1,000 to be given to "munkus needs a sandwich dot org"

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  • DadouwDadouw Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Dadouw wrote: »
    i say nuke quebec

    I'll nuke your sister

    right in her pants

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  • DaricDaric Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    hahahaha

    I'm not trolling

    Texas is awesome and I honestly would not want to live anywhere else, ever

    I'm tired of people who have been to like El Paso and are like "Texas is all farmers and barren" and stupid shit like that when we have the 4th and 7th largest cities in the US.

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    What, really?

    Doesn't believe in the constitutional separation of church and state?

    "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,"

    I would like the $1,000 to be given to "munkus needs a sandwich dot org"

    i've got the ham if you've got the bread

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Nuke my anus (I'm from Texas)

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Can Texas just secede already so we can stop having to listen to their shit

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Counter point: It is texas.

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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Most Texans don't wanna succeed

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  • .avi.avi regular
    edited March 2010
    texas

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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    excuse me

    polls indicate as much, anyway

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2010
    its you. texas is you.

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    If all the experts on something disagree with me

    then all the experts must be biased

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    oh

    well you have the 4th and 7th largest cities

    I guess that makes it okay to push a ridiculous series of revisions onto a potentially national textbook publishing body

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    the ham is going fast

    so fast!!

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2010
    I don't think that trying to paint the civil-rights movement in a negative light is the best way to preach the 'liberal bias of history books.'

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I have an idea. Let us ship all the separatists in Quebec to texas, and then split Texas into a state and a new country scorned by both the US and Canada. and possibly Mexico.

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  • DaricDaric Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Houston is different from Dallas which is different from Austin which is different from San Antonio

    West Texas is vastly different from East Texas

    it's a very, very diverse state and I love every single inch of it

    edit: Yeah man, the texas board of education sure does run every other state what

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I don't think that trying to paint the civil-rights movement in a negative light is the best way to preach the 'liberal bias of history books.'

    "Let's all open to chapter 6: THE DARK TIMES"

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2010
    the dark ages 2: knowledge is bad, harder

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  • .avi.avi regular
    edited March 2010
    texas is the worst state sorry

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  • DadouwDadouw Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Daric wrote: »
    hahahaha

    I'm not trolling

    Texas is awesome and I honestly would not want to live anywhere else, ever

    I'm tired of people who have been to like El Paso and are like "Texas is all farmers and barren" and stupid shit like that when we have the 4th and 7th largest cities in the US.

    because large cities mean something about the quality of life and the intellectual value of a state

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