Discussion for article #234214
How about we teach actual history instead of propaganda…or is that too much to hope for?
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alt headline:
People in Bubble Deny Bad Things Ever Happened in Bubble
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"State Sen. William Ligon ® sponsored the resolution in February, and called
the new AP U.S. History course framework “a radically revisionist view
of American history that emphasizes negative aspects of our nation’s
history while omitting or minimizing positive aspects.”
And these aspects would be??? Facts, please.
Aside: It’s not really radically revisionist, it just includes those parts of American history that right-wing pseudo-puritanical, psychedelic patriots would rather not be acknowledged because it would blow their cover.
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The GOP/Teatrolls’ War on Knowledge continues unabated…
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The Georgia state senate on Wednesday passed a resolution that denounces the new Advanced Placement U.S. History curriculum and calls on the College Board to return to the old version of the course, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
I have a feeling in the not too distant future the old version is going to be found not up to snuff either. We joke, but we should really be concerned with the fact that state governments are denying funding for education, unless the “facts” are their own.
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I like the Georgia state’s senate’s threat: If y’all don’t AGREE to change your ENTIRE NATIONAL ENTRANCE STANDARDS policy to accommodate our nice smiling sparkle pony and lemonade falls history, then we’re scrub the entire Georgia public education system from pre-school to college free of your evil reality history, thereby deliberately screwing up our own kids or costing their parents tens of thousands in additional study aids and tutoring!
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Honestly, I’m not even sure it’s a fear of blown cover or whatever. My take on this is that they have no actual, real complaint and no way of backing it up and they know it. Rather, they simply latched onto the idea of fabricating complaints about it as “too negative” etc., as a strategy for insisting that some sort of “compromise” be made, revising real history in such a manner that it’s not as damaging as the truth is to their ability to indoctrinate new conservatives.
There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization Gone with the wind…
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“If we don’t make sure Jefferson Davis gets his proper due, then nothing is sacred!” Mr. Fisher later added.
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If kids aren’t learning that rap music created slavery, then why do we even have schools?
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Yes…but Twilight Sparkle’d be blasting these guys into oblivion for this kind of thing too…
Unless it has a unit on The War of Northern Aggression, I don’t think South Carolina et al. are going to approve of the curriculum.
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They probably want units on how great slavery was…how women were better when they shut up and popped out children…
Wait…I had that course in college…then again, that was the proff who told me I would never get a Master’s Degree…I will be graduating with my MFA in July laughs maniacally
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History is messy and sobering and terrible and wonderful. American Exceptionalism is really, really boring.
But it was Reagan’s genius move. He convinced lots and lots of white people to feel good about themselves, and that if you feel good about yourself, you reward rich people (because one day you will be Rich!) punish poor people (because that will show you that you are at least further along the road to riches then those lazy slobs!)
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Not this shit again. Can we just have Republicans name it the “Patriotic Propaganda Exam” and settle the argument?
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One-sixth of Georgians lack high school educations, eleventh highest among the states… which is a good thing since the smartest Georgians may be the ones who spend the least time learning in Georgia schools (thanks to Georgia lawmakers).
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We are the people Emerson wrote of, “who for truth and honor’s sake stand fast and suffer long;” who are “never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”
That’s what America is. Not stock photos or airbrushed history or feeble attempts to define some of us as more American as others. We respect the past, but we don’t pine for it. We don’t fear the future; we grab for it. America is not some fragile thing; we are large, in the words of Whitman, containing multitudes. We are boisterous and diverse and full of energy, perpetually young in spirit.
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Based on the way that the right wing creates confusion over things like climate science by spreading “doubt” and insisting on “balance”, you make a good point. Soon it will be “there’s not enough stressing of the “positive” aspects of climate change” – actually some on the right are already doing it.
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Haven’t read or picked up a copy of National Geographic in years, but this caught my eye.
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