{"id":16680,"date":"2010-02-05T20:22:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T03:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=16680"},"modified":"2010-02-05T20:22:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T03:22:54","slug":"slipping-into-an-alternate-dimension-of-evil-liberal-revisionists-eek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/05\/slipping-into-an-alternate-dimension-of-evil-liberal-revisionists-eek.html","title":{"rendered":"Slipping into an alternate dimension of Evil Liberal Revisionists! Eek!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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School days, school days, dear old Golden Rule days ...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been reading a lot over the past several months about all the reactionary Right-wingers appointed by Gov. Perry in Texas to the State Board of Education (ten of the fifteen now being fine, upstanding, Texas Republicans).\u00a0 Texas is currently going through a review of its social studies curriculum, and the Right has been gleefully proposing and pushing through all sorts of proposed changes — downplaying slavery<\/a> (except for its abolishment); touting “causes and key organizations and individuals” of the “conservative resurgence”<\/a> in the 80s-90s (NRA, Phyllis Schafly, the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority); confirming that Joe McCarthy was right about all those commies infiltrating the government<\/a>; teaching how to differentiate between legal and illegal immigration<\/a>. Other discussions have involved how to involve more discussion of America’s Christian past<\/a> (at the expense of talking about Washington and Lincoln<\/a>), and whether folks like Thurgood Marshall or Cesar Chavez<\/a> ought to be mentioned. As yet undecided are the extent to which “confrontational” civil rights leaders<\/a> will be discussed, and how the civil rights movement has led to unrealistic expectation of “equal outcomes” (and how advances in civil rights are all because of the Republican Party and whites<\/a>). Oh, and whether it’s more proper to refer to America as a “republican<\/a>” rather than “democratic” polity. So I was more than a bit surprised to receive an email from the Liberty Council<\/a> (“Restoring the Culture by Advancing Religious Freedom, the Sanctity of Human Life and the Family”)<\/em>, warning me about all the Horrid Awful Liberal Agenda being advanced against the American Way of Life and Our Children’s Very Souls.<\/p>\n

TSBOE will soon finalize the language that textbook publishers use to align their textbooks to current standards. As Texas is a leader in textbooks, most other states purchase the same educational materials. The textbook controversy in Texas affects every American because, to have a bright future, we must know our past. America has a rich past founded on Judeo-Christian values and to forget them, or worse, to distort them, will doom our future. Those who want to reshape America begin by rewriting our past. We repeat the mistakes of the past when we are ignorant of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, those who want to reshape America begin by rewriting our past.\u00a0 As the preceding examples demonstrate, there’s a lot of rewriting going on.\u00a0 But the Liberty Council has apparently been reading from a different text.\u00a0 For them, it’s all about the Liberulzzzzz!<\/p>\n

Some of the suggestions that have come forward at various times include:<\/p>\n