Posted on 03/23/2013 12:41:42 PM PDT by ColdOne
A U.S. Department of Education website pulled a quote from communist leader Mao Zedong off a page geared toward children after it sparked a social media firestorm Friday.
NYDailyNews.com reports that the quote appeared on the Kids Zone website of the National Center for Education Statistics.
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I actually suspect that the DoEd bureaucrat assigned to select quotes just googled “education quotes” and thought the Mao quote sounded good.
In the back of his little mind, he probably thought the kids would think that Mao was edgy and cool.
Ignorant of both history and big words like “insatiable”, the bureaucrat botched his assignment.
Or, maybe his boss was embarrassed by the explicit reference to a title in the canon of American pornography. Doubtful, but Washington bureaucrats have been known to spend a whole lot of their work day watching Internet porn.
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
Something most run of the mill sheeperals won’t admit.
“Good people” like them never point guns at people to force them to comply.
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