Discussion: Ga. Lawmakers Introduce Resolution Urging Schools To Show D'Souza Film

system1 · February 25, 2015, 10:46pm

Discussion for article #233687

austin_dave · February 25, 2015, 11:11pm

Oh yeah… and then make them sit through “Bless the Beasts and the Children.” I had to endure that. Make them do it too.

Anyway, yeah, make them watch this film. The back of the room will be a snarkfest a la “MST3k.” Forced cinema is a gift to the wise-asses. And for the rest… Hey, how much does DD’S get paid for these treatments? Double it.

teenlaqueefa · February 25, 2015, 11:16pm

There should be a requirement that the students be informed that the creator of the film is a convicted felon prior to viewing.

Because fair and balanced.

captaincrunch · February 25, 2015, 11:18pm

Are you really willing to take the risk and have GA children exposed to the words and images of a convicted felon? And no, I don’t mean Michael Moore or Roman Polanski…I mean Dinish D’Souza!

sniffit · February 25, 2015, 11:19pm

Fucking perfect. That was the first thing I thought of too.

radicalcentrist · February 25, 2015, 11:26pm

I totally agree. Being forced to watch this film could well turn Georgia blue as soon as those kids reach voting age,

ottnott · February 25, 2015, 11:30pm

Local control, small government, let the experts run things and keep the politicians out of it….oh, election over? Never mind, then.

gr · February 25, 2015, 11:33pm

Yeah, that brown skin will go over big in GA and MS and LA.

ralph_vonholst · February 25, 2015, 11:35pm

According to the resolution sponsored by six state House Republicans, D’Souza made the movie to “combat the idea that America is a ‘disgrace’ to the world.”

Funny that. I thought he made the movie in order to fleece myriads of ignorant rednecks and other right-wing nut jobs out of their disposable cash.

chammy · February 25, 2015, 11:41pm

Don’t be so sure. This is Georgia we are talking about

bluejoubert · February 25, 2015, 11:45pm

I’ll go along with it if they are also forced to watch Fahrenheit 9/11, An Inconvenient Truth, and Ken Burns’ The Civil War. I would even allow them to show the Sarah Palin movie length infomercial (don’t know the name, not about to waste the time to find it) because I trust our young people to recognize crap when it’s shoved in their faces.

ralph_vonholst · February 25, 2015, 11:49pm

Yes, but all three of those films you mention fall under the Georgia GOP’s defined category of “Science Fiction.” movies

radicalcentrist · February 25, 2015, 11:51pm

Honestly, who in the list of authors that Georgia schoolchildren would be reading has ever said “America is a disgrace to the world”? Besides the Ayatollah and Kim Jong-Un and ISIS I don’t know any critic who even remotely says such a thing. Otherwise, we are talking about people who might have called something the US did as wrong and out-of-keeping with America’s stated ideals, which is hardly the same thing.

rudesan · February 26, 2015, 12:31am

Unless they turn into a bunch of maroons.

mrf · February 26, 2015, 12:48am

I think they suffer from cognitive dissonance.These are the same legislators who last year passed a bill that was signed by the governor offering Confederate Battle Flag licence plates. What America do they love?

jinmichigan · February 26, 2015, 1:06am

Republicraps promoting a convicted felon. Nothing new here.

briannaamore · February 26, 2015, 1:08am

Race to the bottom people, race to the bottom.

jaybeeraybee · February 26, 2015, 1:09am

Hey, don’t go after the straw man, he can’t defend himself! Besides, it’s only OK to say the US is a disgrace when it tries in any way to limit guns… or provide healthcare… or ensure gender/racial/sexual/religious equality… or maintain the seperation of church and state… or be lenient with civil disobedience… or… oh just never mind!

MikeHawke · February 26, 2015, 1:22am

urging schools to show CONVICTED FELON D’souza’s film.

benthere · February 26, 2015, 2:11am

A stunningly stupid idea.