It must have been hard narrowing the list down to 10

[schmiss]

10 Historical 'Facts' Only a Right-Winger Could Believe
Facts, including historical ones, are 'biased' against the right's worldview.

Comments

[perfectisafault]

This should be in there somewhere

[castalianspring]

On the philosophical implications of man evolving from monkeys

...except that's not what Darwin's theories were about at all. We share a common ancestor with apes; we didn't evolve from them. Maybe the author is using this for hyperbole's sake, but he's perpetuating a common mistake here amidst some otherwise good points.

[rex_dart]

The way the author is using the phrase and in the context of the tone and construction of that particular paragraph, the implication is that conservatives are concerned about the philosophical implications of man evolving from monkeys, and therefore whether or not the postulation is true is irrelevant because either way it's the premise that conservatives are going off of. That the author is writing for an educated audience to whom the "man evolving from monkeys" trope is automatically absurd isn't at all beyond the realm of possibility.

[castalianspring]

I disagree. I read it several times trying to figure out what he was saying and I couldn't decide that what you're suggesting is true, especially since he didn't really bother to refute that specific point and neither does the link he provides. If he'd put it in quotes I'd believe it better.

And trust me, even among generally educated audiences evolution isn't automatically understood at all. I see it all the time in my job.

[rex_dart]

An author isn't required to spell things out for an audience to imbue a particular meaning into something, though; assuming that an audience is educated enough to know the meaning of a word, that certain things aren't true, etc. isn't an error. It can cause confusion for the reader, so it may be a symptom of writing that misses the mark on effectiveness, but it's not a mistake.

I thought it was immediately clear upon first reading that the entire paragraph was a reference to the conservative point of view, mistakes and all. Hence why he ended it with the conservative-POV opinion "And that just ain't right," then broke paragraphs to go back to his own voice.

[lickety_split]

I wish we could have our own Grammy post. :(

[othellia]

Last year Jacob G. Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation asserted that Americans were freer in the 1880s than they are today.

I wish men would just stfu about these things and stay that way forever.

[___closetome]

I knew most of this already but # 8 made my jaw drop.