lolTexas

[Linliel]

There's something in the water there, I'm sure:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...ry?CMP=twt_iph

The (Texas) board is to vote on a sweeping purge of alleged liberal bias in Texas school textbooks in favour of what Dunbar says really matters: a belief in America as a nation chosen by God as a beacon to the world, and free enterprise as the cornerstone of liberty and democracy.

...Those corrections have prompted a blizzard of accusations of rewriting history and indoctrinating children by promoting rightwing views on religion, economics and guns while diminishing the science of evolution, the civil rights movement and the horrors of slavery.

Several changes include sidelining Thomas Jefferson, who favoured separation of church and state, while introducing a new focus on the "significant contributions" of pro-slavery Confederate leaders during the civil war.

The new curriculum asserts that "the right to keep and bear arms" is an important element of a democratic society. Study of Sir Isaac Newton is dropped in favour of examining scientific advances through military technology.
There is also a suggestion that the anti-communist witch-hunt by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s may have been justified.

The education board has dropped references to the slave trade in favour of calling it the more innocuous "Atlantic triangular trade",

(...)

"The only accurate method of ascertaining the intent of the founding fathers at the time of our government's inception comes from a biblical worldview," she wrote. "We as a nation were intended by God to be a light set on a hill to serve as a beacon of hope and Christian charity to a lost and dying world."

(...)

One curriculum amendment describes the civil rights movement as creating "unrealistic expectations of equal outcomes" among minorities. Another seeks to place Martin Luther King and the violent Black Panther movement as opposite sides of the same coin.

(...)

...almost equating George Wallace (the segregationist governor of Alabama in the mid-1960s) with the civil rights movement and the things Martin Luther King Jr was trying to accomplish, as if Wallace was standing up for white civil rights."

[Diamicles]

MOMMA SAYS ALLIGATORS IS SO ANGRY BECAUSE DEY GOTS ALL DEM TEEF AND NO TOOTHBRUSH

[Mizango]

lolTexas indeed. I've been telling yall for years now.

MOMMA SAYS ALLIGATORS IS SO ANGRY BECAUSE DEY GOTS ALL DEM TEEF AND NO TOOTHBRUSH

Win.

[Ksandra]

I think we really need to just give Texas to England and have it done and over with.

[Linliel]

I think we really need to just give Texas to England and have it done and over with.

lol, as if they'd want it, haha!

Also they'd have to hand all their guns in, lol.

[Mizango]

I think we really need to just give Texas to England and have it done and over with.

Oh man, I'd like to see them make that swim.

[Charismatic]

You forgot the actual important part:

What this actually means and why it is truly important.

The curriculum has alarmed liberals across the country in part because Texas buys millions of text books every year, giving it considerable sway over what publishers print. By some estimates, all but a handful of American states rely on text books written to meet the Texas curriculum. The California legislature is considering a bill that would bar them from being used in the state's schools.

[Conrad]

trolled

[Ksandra]

lol, as if they'd want it, haha!

I think England will take anything they can get at this point.

[Conrad]

I think England will take anything they can get at this point.

Their new PM said last week that England's best days are ahead of them. I imagine this would not include Texas.

[Charismatic]

I think England will take anything they can get at this point.

England is pretty damn bad off at this point, you may or may not be right about that.

[Mizango]

lol, as if they'd want it, haha!

Also they'd have to hand all their guns in, lol.

Wrong, the indigenous rednecks and cholos would team up and bring civil war rainging down upon the kingdom. Brits arent ready for the girth and stupidity of native Texans with guns.

[Mizango]

Doman Kasshu, Texas defender! ♫

[Linliel]

Wrong, the indigenous rednecks and cholos would team up and bring civil war rainging down upon the kingdom. Brits arent ready for the girth and stupidity of native Texans with guns.

lol! It's okay, they have real castles in the UK. Those'll protect 'em!

[Charismatic]

Once again, Mizango, making things up.
If you think either of my posts in this thread are in defense of Texas, you're delusional.

It's a very bad thing that so many states follow suit, though hopefully many would not if this bullshit passes.

[Mizango]

Doman Kasshu, Texas defender! ♫

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[Mizango]

Sing along.

[Charismatic]

Kinda funny, when I nail you for something... it's shit that actually applies to you or shit you've done.
When you talk shit about me it's stuff pulled from outta no-fucking-where.

[Charismatic]

But hey, you make funny posts in General Discussion.
derp.

[Day]

lol