The Texas School Board, on a party line vote (
Idiots 10/Relatively Sane 5) revised the social studies curriculum to correct for the well-known liberal bias of history. Fun! What shall schoolchildren in the Lone Star state learn?
- Separation of church and state is not in the Constitution, and the Founding Fathers, except for that nasty leftist Thomas Jefferson, were all totally devout Christians who wanted a Christian nation (which is definitely in the Constitution, amiright? I'm sure the Founding Fathers spelled out the necessity of theocracy in great detail, because that worked out so well for Europe).
- In addition to learning about Martin Luther King, Jr., they shall learn about the "violent philosophy" of the Black Panthers, lest they wrongly think that black people are non-threatening.
- They will be instructed as to the "unintended consequences" of the Great Society programs. These consequences were not specified in the article, but since affirmative action and Title IX were singled out, we can assume it's about The Terrible Things That Happen When The Women and Coloreds Get Uppity.
- Capitalism will be re-named "the free enterprise system," because capitalists are tired of being called pigs. (And, to be fair, pigs are probably tired of being associated with capitalists.)
- Thomas Jefferson's Enlightenment-biased writings did not inspire anyone to revolution; the peasants of Europe were all about St. Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin, those freedom loving philosophers.
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