"The thing we need to focus on about the founders is that, given the social structure of their time, they were revolutionaries who brought liberty into a world where it hadn't existed, to everybody -- not all equally instantly -- and it was their progress that we need to look at"
Sounds horrible. I'm thinking most of what you're complaining about has to do with the Texas Board of Education.
"They voted down a motion that requires students to be taught about the terrorism brought about by the Ku Klux Klan and what they did to ethnic and racial minorities, but they turn around and pass a provision that requires the teaching of the violence of the Black Panther Party."
I knew those knuckledraggers wouldn't stop at just science. History seems an obvious target:
“Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.” ― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present.
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Sounds horrible. I'm thinking most of what you're complaining about has to do with the Texas Board of Education.
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"They voted down a motion that requires students to be taught about the terrorism brought about by the Ku Klux Klan and what they did to ethnic and racial minorities, but they turn around and pass a provision that requires the teaching of the violence of the Black Panther Party."
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Except that Americans were slower to drop the institution than most of the rest of the world.
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It took about 90 years. How quickly did the British do it?
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I knew those knuckledraggers wouldn't stop at just science. History seems an obvious target:
“Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.” ― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present.
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