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Apparently, sometimes the losers get to write the history books.

1 posted on 04/23/2018 8:11:24 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

See my tagline. Stop letting really evil people call us names. Just go out and defeat these jerks and for God’s sake let’s take back our schools and yes even our media.


2 posted on 04/23/2018 8:16:11 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: servo1969

There really is not that much new here. As far as I recall, my history books were terrible and left much out that would have helped in my understanding.

The better way to capture the history of the times is to read good historical fiction. But clearly you cannot trust everything in that either.

One thing though. When Trump entered the race it immediately became clear to me that he was someone who honestly represented the way I feel about the country. As an Eagle Scout, I have wanted someone who called it like it is for some time. And of course I expected to lose this election like I have lost most of the other ones.

But not this time. MAGA.


3 posted on 04/23/2018 8:19:42 AM PDT by KC_for_Freedom
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To: servo1969
Actually modern school text books are a joke. Mostly color pictures and few words, weighing in at about 5 pounds each. Some more.

Another decade and there will be no words, just pictures with a good or bad symbol over them.

4 posted on 04/23/2018 8:20:26 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: servo1969

It’s time for a book burning!!!


5 posted on 04/23/2018 8:20:57 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: servo1969

Recent history book: Marilyn Monroe in, George Washington out.

School textbooks have been and reviewed written by cultural Marxist educators for decades. This is just another examlple. Parents - read your kids’ textbooks!


6 posted on 04/23/2018 8:25:43 AM PDT by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: servo1969
There aren't 62 million older white rural voters in America.

Trump's supposed racism was only perceived by people who hated him and weren't going to vote for him--the kind of people who think that building a border wall is racist. Open racism today alienates more people than it attracts, which is why no politician who wants to win uses it (except anti-white racism in some Congressional districts).

7 posted on 04/23/2018 8:27:23 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: servo1969

Textbook publishers are part of the Ministry of Propaganda.


8 posted on 04/23/2018 8:28:57 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: servo1969

AP = Advanced propaganda


9 posted on 04/23/2018 8:30:07 AM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: servo1969

Because the left hates the fact that a White nominally-Christian was elected. They want the presidency given in turn to black, woman, gay, trans, and then, God save us, muzzy.

The presidency is a symbol for them. Why else would they be seriously considering oprah, michelle and lez warren?


10 posted on 04/23/2018 8:34:01 AM PDT by I want the USA back (If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
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To: servo1969

If Trump had the time, while saving the world, improving the economy, draining the Swamp, and defending himself from the Hillary coup attempt, he could sue every liberal who claims he is insane and get a lot richer than he is now.


11 posted on 04/23/2018 8:42:10 AM PDT by Missouri gal
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To: servo1969

I think the College Board, who writes and administers
the AP test, would like to hear from us.

212-713-8000


12 posted on 04/23/2018 8:49:44 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: servo1969
"...African American town....?

The American Negro has with the help of authors, media, willfully misinterpreting American History, has managed to segregate himself almost totally once again plus allowing his race to be victimized and kept on the 'plantation' by political, media, and glamor PIMPS of the Negro race.

13 posted on 04/23/2018 9:23:07 AM PDT by yoe
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To: servo1969
"...Scott Overland, a spokesman for the Pearson publishing company, told Fox News that the text was “developed by an expert author and underwent rigorous peer review to ensure academic integrity.” He further asserted that it was “designed to convey college-level information to high school students” and “aims to promote debate and critical thinking by presenting multiple sides” of the 2016 election..."

You could have knocked me over with a feather.

Publishing houses for school text books are not only left leaning, they are squarely in lockstep with the Radical Left (Now Mainstream Left).

It is well known that they are job havens for people with Black Studies, Native American Studies, Hispanic Studies, Women's Studies, and LGBQTXZY Studies. These are people whose "education", worthless as it is, consigns them to pigeonholes in their line of work, where they metastasize out as they gain experience.

I am pretty far to the right on everything, and in this blue state, it is a struggle. My now deceased Mother-In-Law was very left leaning, and she would occasionally bait me over the years, and I would dutifully return the fire and then some, but my wife told me she read her mother the riot act years back to give it a break, so there existed a state of relative peaceful coexistence between us.

My mother in law was well known for shopping the bargain racks of all kinds for Christmas presents, and when I opened a gift from her a year or two before she passed on, it was a book on American history named "A People's History of The United States" by an author named Howard Zinn. She knew I was a big history buff, so this was a thoughtful gift, I thought.

So, immediately after unwrapping it, I like to get a quick feel for books like this to see where the author is likely to go on various issues, and it is always interesting to open a book to a random page and read a paragraph, so I opened to a random page and began reading, I went "Huh? What the Hell?"

So I flipped to another page and began reading..."WTF?" And another, and another. After five or six random tries, I just walked over to the garbage can and just dropped it in.

She was getting on in years, and I have since concluded she had no idea (as I did not) about that author or that book. But apparently, he was a notorious, Leftist Radical, and when you read the book, every single example I read talked about how racist, greedy, intolerant, corrupt, you name it, that the United States of America is and has been. I believe she just saw it on the dollar rack.

So, you can imagine my shock when I investigated, to find out this was a popular US History book in US high schools, and that Howard Zinn was notorious. I read a book by a conservative female author of note, and she explained the swamp that is the school textbook industry.

16 posted on 04/23/2018 9:36:32 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: servo1969

America is at that awkward stage....


18 posted on 04/23/2018 11:12:23 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: servo1969
As long as 20 years ago, I taught my kids that on the reading comprehension questions they should always seek the most politically correct choice among the suggested answers.

ML/NJ

19 posted on 04/23/2018 5:19:38 PM PDT by ml/nj
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