Discussion for article #227598
All I can say is…
HA!
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Birchers lose yet again.
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Krieger said that the College Board committee "left out the positives."
That’s the same line of trash where “the other side of slavery” comes from. Rubbish is rubbish, period.
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They didn’t need a history class to say “Fuck you.”
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"School Board Rejects Resolution To Condemn AP U.S. History Framework’
Good for them for showing they’ve got balls.
We don’t need history that shows Jesus riding a dinosaur or history that shows the Confederate states as victims of Yankee aggression.
Recall Socrates had to drink a cup of hemlock for forcing the youth of Athens to think.
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Hahahaha!
“Baseless.”
That former teacher got a well-deserved smack.
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“National Republicans” need to visit the reservation closest to their homes. Stay for a month or two to really get a feel for the place(s).
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I still cant believe that these idiots are apparently going to take over both the House and Senate in a month. Jesus.
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Just because the Republicans have the nerve to go for such bullshit it no where near means that it should even be considered.
If the asshole Republicans are going for it, it’s guaranteed horseshit, no doubt.
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They’re just tying up loose ends. The bulk of Baggers and neo-Confederates are up in age. The GOP has got to farm for voters.
The line from the film “The Untouchables” is interesting.
Sean Connery asks Kevin Costner, “Why try to work with bad apples when you can pick a fresh one off the tree?”
It’s easier to produce new GOP voters using school-generated ignorance, rather than trying to convince Democratic voters, who range in age from Millennial and mostly tapering off at Geriatric (who are nearly all GOP).
Thus, those born from the 1990s to the 2010s are fertile ground for producing new GOP voters. Already, the GOP and the MSM have achieved a modicum of success with Millennials (born after 1980), who are far more libertarian, profit-driven and civic-duty-averse than people born in the cohorts before them.
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History covers positives and negatives. The issue is, that viewing through todays lenses there are just more negatives at various points in history. Putting a positive light on say, slavery or corporate bosses starting wars with unions would be wrong.
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They don’t mention that Larry Krieger writes AP test prep books, so he has a financial interest in this, not just a philosophical interest.
They left out the positives. Everyone knows that plantation owners really enjoyed having their work done by slaves. They didn’t have to pay them and could actually take out their frustrations on them as well. How is that not positive?
Well, slavery was complicated back then. In the North, many people saw slavery as evil, while in the South, many people saw slavery as good. The public side of things was a very straightforward “good vs evil” from the perspective of BOTH sides. Behind the scenes, for the people who actually controlled what was going on, slavery was either about keeping the economic power of the South, or breaking it so that the North could gain ascendency. It certainly wasn’t about “good vs evil” except in the sense that “my money is good, yours is evil because it’s not mine” kind of way.