Discussion: TX School Reviewing Book On Poverty Because Parent Thinks It's 'Marxist'

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If she hates Marxism, I’m sure she hates football. The NFL is a Marxist wet-dream.

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Seldom is the question asked: Why iz oure kidz so dumm?

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My suggestion to this parent in two words:

  • Homscool
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I pray this woman’s child grows up to be a fierce leader of the OWS movement.

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I read Ayn Rand in high school and still haven’t received an apology.

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Capitalism like Christianity has to be 100% perfect for the true believers. Because they know if you tug on one lose thread the whole thing starts to unravel.

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Since Obama was given one, I think she would argue.

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Texas is always trying to get back into the #1 spot on my monthly “crazy state” poll. I can assure you that they will make the sweet sixteen…

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Ghost, I think all the alternating between caps and no caps is going to give me seizures…lol…

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If they’re forced to read Ayn Rand they’ll give up reading and thinking and become as stupid as the parents who force them to read Rand (said parents most likely having absolutely no clue what Rand says because they either haven’t read her or tried and couldn’t get past page one because they couldn’t figure out what in hell she was saying, but Rush says it’s okay so it must be okay).

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Reads like an Onion article.

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I’ll never forget when Michelle Bachmann trashed Teach Across America as some sort of brainwashing organization…and then her kid joined up to teach… That was delicious.

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You don’t have to stop feeding the poor, just feed the homeless to the hungry and everything will be all free markety and not marxisty. Stoopid bitch.

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Seriously, I went to school in the Commie North East and they made us read Ayn Rand. You’d think these people would believe strongly enough in the truth of their position that they wouldn’t fear literature.

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Tom Tuttle from Tacoma, Washington!

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Me too, when I was about 16 and I got the immediate impression that she was some kinda Nazi, after plowing through Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, I was sure of it. Of course by that time, I’d already read 1984, Animal Farm, and Brave New World, which gave me some basis for my opinion on Ayn Rand’s Nazi tripe.

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I guess we know who to put in charge of Highland Park’s next canned food drive.

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I love that movie.

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When I was 17, I read parts of the Communist Manifesto and Atlas Shrugged for a research paper I was doing. I could barely read Atlas Shrugged, it was mind-numbing and I didn’t get very far. I also skimmed the Wealth of Nations, it was dry too, but more in a “legalese” way, not in the :losing IQ points" way Atlas Shrugged was.

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Obviously the first problem here is that the mother never learned one of the basic things in English classes, namely the wisdom of looking up the definition of a word in the dictionary before using it. The book in question has little to do with the concepts of “Marxism.” Of course, she wouldn’t want her children learning those ideas, because then they’d question her ignorance.

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