I came out of the shower today after getting out of class early (for once..), only to find this article posted by someone on FB from the Guardian website:
The Texas schools rewrite American history
You MUST read this article. There are so many good points in it, but I think what I enjoyed the most was the clear bias against conservative Christian bullshit, which of course only harms the authenticity of the article, but it doesn't even read as "biased" to most people (because most people who would read this article are haters of the conservative Christian bullshit). Because to us, the absurdity of the conservative Christian bullshit is so clear that we forget that the other liberal side is full of bias as well.
However, whether the article is biased of not is irrelevant here, and that's what I like about the article. The most important of course is the idea that conservative religious bastards are taking over the educational system, slowly. First it's Texas (is anybody even surprised that it had to be Texas? I am not), but they won't stop there. They will never stop!!!!! They are like horrible pests!!! Multiplying and spreading their horrid teachings to us, normal sane people. They are the enemy! Kill kill kill!
Okay clearly I've gone a bit crazy. But the point is, nobody should stand for this spew of religious and conservative indoctrination. Do we really need more guns and more George W. Bush followers and more lies in teaching history? History is already biased, why do we need to make it even more biased than it is? Everybody knows that history is written by winners, not losers. But do we really need to make the winning side even more glorious, so that it completely stops being any sort of history and just becomes disgustingly obvious propaganda? I just realized this morning how much I hate 1. conservatives 2. religious idiots 3. Christian indoctrination esp. in this country 4. the saying "one nation under God" and anything to do with how this country is God-given and God-made and God-whatever. I hate it so much that I will be thinking about this article for the whole day and it will make me angry and agitated. As if I am already not angry and agitated. Today is such a stupid day. And this Texan woman Cynthia Dunbar (I love how she hates the local schools because they are tyrannical and tools of perversion hahahaha!!) is so stupid. I am just afraid that this stupidity will climax into something really dangerous. Such radical conservatives are dangerous!!! (no I am not going to give some obvious over-used dictatorship example from 20th century history. We all know what happened). Come on why doesn't someone stop them just for once... Bleh.
The Mighty Kitten is upset, disappointed and just outright angry. Я хочу рвать и метать. It's funny cause this sentence was used in the last film we watched in class, "Volga-Volga". Comrade Byvalov used it a lot in the beginning of the film. I feel for him though. Nothing works in the stupid town where he was stationed. They don't have roads, his telegram doesn't even reach him because the stupid raft is broken, they don't have cars, the telephone doesn't work, his driver is sleeping and his horses are not available. On top of it all, he is surrounded by provincial idiots that don't do any work and instead sing propagandistic songs and act like Stalin and the Soviet Union is NOT killing millions of people that year, and as if the shitty town/village where they live is the happiest place on Earth. I would go crazy too, just like comrade Byvalov.
Time to go to lunch.
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I am reading this graphic novel and there is a teacher character in it who had to explain to a couple of parents why their little kid(I think pre-middle school) wasn't allowed to bring an uzi to school.
ReplyDeleteIt was fucking hilarious
we think we're all american and about ideals and all this shit, and really we have as much disgustingly propagandized texts as "the union" has...
ReplyDeleteYou raise an interesting point about the bias of the article. I really didn't notice until I thought about it after reading your post, mainly because I was quite enraged by some of the points. Particularly:
ReplyDelete"One curriculum amendment describes the civil rights movement as creating "unrealistic expectations of equal outcomes" among minorities."
How can we then act surprised when in the Czech elections there is a party advertising "The final solution of the gypsies in CZ"?
Either way I believe other US states should just pass laws that would prevent such textbooks from entering their schools. In my mind I'm imagining a scenario where such propaganda will be isolated to just Texas and it will become increasingly fundamentalist and eventually become an independent country (called Gilead haha!)