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Arizona Is Turning Into Florida #272819 [Book Banning]
« on: February 27, 2012, 08:23:47 am »
http://tucsoncitizen.com/three-sonorans/2012/01/13/did-you-know-even-shakespeare-got-banned-from-tusd-with-mas-ruling/

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As part of the state-mandated termination of its ethnic studies program, the Tucson Unified School District released an initial list of books to be banned from its schools today. According to district spokesperson Cara Rene, the books “will be cleared from all classrooms, boxed up and sent to the Textbook Depository for storage.”

Facing a multimillion-dollar penalty in state funds, the governing board of Tucson’s largest school district officially ended the 13-year-old program on Tuesday in an attempt to come into compliance with the controversial state ban on the teaching of ethnic studies.

The list of removed books includes the 20-year-old textbook “Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years,” which features an essay by Tucson author Leslie Silko. Recipient of a Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award and a MacArthur Foundation genius grant, Silko has been an outspoken supporter of the ethnic studies program.

“By ordering teachers to remove ‘Rethinking Columbus,’ the Tucson school district has shown tremendous disrespect for teachers and students,” said the book’s editor Bill Bigelow. “This is a book that has sold over 300,000 copies and is used in school districts from Anchorage to Atlanta, and from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine. It offers teaching strategies and readings that teachers can use to help students think about the perspectives that are too often silenced in the traditional curriculum.”

Another notable text removed from Tucson’s classrooms is Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest.” In a meeting this week, administrators informed Mexican-American studies teachers to stay away from any units where “race, ethnicity and oppression are central themes,” including the teaching of Shakespeare’s classic in Mexican-American literature courses.
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Re: Arizona Is Turning Into Florida #272819 [Book Banning]
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2012, 11:35:42 am »
English class without Shakespeare  :o
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Re: Arizona Is Turning Into Florida #272819 [Book Banning]
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2012, 12:02:28 pm »
Well, Arizona's government is not even pretending to not be racist any more.
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Re: Arizona Is Turning Into Florida #272819 [Book Banning]
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2012, 12:11:54 pm »
Isn't this the same state that banned or edited down Romeo and Juliet?  Or is that New Mexico?

Either way, what the hell?!
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Re: Arizona Is Turning Into Florida #272819 [Book Banning]
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2012, 12:33:01 pm »
Why the FUCK would you not want to study even the idea of oppression? God forbid any sense of compassion or understanding is shown to anyone!

My frustration at the very moral foundation that was seeping into America for the past few decades, one that insisted we have "the black kid," "the asian one" "that latino... with one arm!" in every show, despite being silly it meant well, it's all going away... Welcome to the world of "fuck you, I got mine!"

Aaaaaaaaaagh!

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Re: Arizona Is Turning Into Florida #272819 [Book Banning]
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2012, 01:05:01 pm »
I really wish someone with federal power could do something, like... tell them this is fucking unethical, immoral, and illegal. We'll call it the "Doomed History" law - no law may be created which outlaws the teaching of...oh God if it's worded too vaguely they'll turn it into Pro-creationism...I just figured out what they WANT. They're doing this all for the lulz so intelligent design/creationism gets taught in the schools.

...And to dumb down their already shiningly stupid masses
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Re: Arizona Is Turning Into Florida #272819 [Book Banning]
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2012, 02:39:42 pm »
Okay, are they actually trying to breed ignorant racists or something?  What the hell?!
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Re: Arizona Is Turning Into Florida #272819 [Book Banning]
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2012, 03:23:46 pm »
Quote from: e13 on February 27, 2012, 12:33:01 pm
Why the FUCK would you not want to study even the idea of oppression? God forbid any sense of compassion or understanding is shown to anyone!

There seems to be this incredibly stupid idea among fundies that if you teach someone that Thing X exists, they will immediately go out and do X.  This is, of course, why I have no tattoos, have never participated in an orgy, and am only pierced in my earlobes, despite having heard of tattoos, orgies, and body piercings.
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Re: Arizona Is Turning Into Florida #272819 [Book Banning]
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2012, 03:49:12 pm »
I say we give Arizona back to the Navajo.
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Re: Arizona Is Turning Into Florida #272819 [Book Banning]
« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2012, 04:09:09 pm »
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Okay, are they actually trying to breed ignorant racists or something?  What the hell?!

I wonder myself.
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Re: Arizona Is Turning Into Florida #272819 [Book Banning]
« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2012, 04:58:35 pm »
Quote from: TGRwulf on February 27, 2012, 02:39:42 pm
Okay, are they actually trying to breed ignorant racists or something?  What the hell?!

Of course they are.  Inbred racists are more likely to vote for less-inbred racists, sexists, and general xenophobes.  Best way to keep a man in line is the keep that man stupid.
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Re: Arizona Is Turning Into Florida #272819 [Book Banning]
« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2012, 05:09:47 pm »
Um, why the fuck why are they doing this? So some privileged white guys don't get their feelings hurt?
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Re: Arizona Is Turning Into Florida #272819 [Book Banning]
« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2012, 05:11:03 pm »
Quote from: Wykked Wytch on February 27, 2012, 05:09:47 pm
Um, why the fuck why are they doing this? So some privileged white guys don't get their feelings hurt?

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Re: Arizona Is Turning Into Florida #272819 [Book Banning]
« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2012, 05:43:19 pm »
Quote from: TGRwulf on February 27, 2012, 02:39:42 pm
Okay, are they actually trying to breed ignorant racists or something?  What the hell?!

They're trying to breed ignorant, puritanical, Christian nationalists so they can maintain the status quo of being a bunch of overprivileged fucks.
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Re: Arizona Is Turning Into Florida #272819 [Book Banning]
« Reply #14 on: February 27, 2012, 06:31:31 pm »
When Republicans rule the roost ...
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