Tennessee Tea Party Wants Slavery Removed From School Textbooks

[Smilodon]

Correct me if I'm wrong - after all, I'm just a foolish atheist - but doesn't the Bible condemn idol worship?

You make a good point. They'd probably do something more like that purity pledge thing that was talked about a while back. Only instead of listing what good and bad legislation is, it's good and bad things to put in history textbooks about the founding fathers.

[Jack Mann]

I think I see where they're going with this.  Once they rewrite the history books so that the US never allowed slavery, then they can claim that the Civil War was purely a matter of States Rights, and that Lincoln was a tyrant who trampled over the Glorious South.

[StallChaser]

Problem:  People tend to think about the things they know, and might come up with unauthorized thoughts.  Lets call this wrongthink.
Solution: If you control their information, they won't learn anything that leads to wrongthink.  A "Ministry of Information" of sorts.


Didn't I read a book about this once?

[D Laurier]

Problem:  People tend to think about the things they know, and might come up with unauthorized thoughts.  Lets call this wrongthink.
Solution: If you control their information, they won't learn anything that leads to wrongthink.  A "Ministry of Information" of sorts.


Didn't I read a book about this once?

You did.
So did I.
But you wont find this book in my daughter's school anymore.

[rosenewock21]

Problem:  People tend to think about the things they know, and might come up with unauthorized thoughts.  Lets call this wrongthink.
Solution: If you control their information, they won't learn anything that leads to wrongthink.  A "Ministry of Information" of sorts.


Didn't I read a book about this once?

You did.
So did I.
But you wont find this book in my daughter's school anymore.

Good luck locating the one that also states that we are all equal, just some are more equal than others.

[Smilodon]

Problem:  People tend to think about the things they know, and might come up with unauthorized thoughts.  Lets call this wrongthink.
Solution: If you control their information, they won't learn anything that leads to wrongthink.  A "Ministry of Information" of sorts.


Didn't I read a book about this once?

Brrrr. I thought historical revisionism was bad, but when we talked about the Ministry of Truth in 1984 in 12th grade American politics, I seriously hope something like that doesn't happen here.

[Iczerfour]

ugghh..  I hate the fucking tea party..  all i see from them is hate and stupidity.