Revisionist History Gone Too Far
The Texas State Board of Education review committee is preparing to vote on a draft of proposed standards for history textbooks. Noting that the draft has "nothing about liberals," the Houston Chronicle reported:
The first draft for proposed standards in United States History Studies Since Reconstruction says students should be expected "to identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly and the Moral Majority." [...] Others have proposed adding talk show host Rush Limbaugh and the National Rifle Association.
The 15-member committee, stacked with 10 Republicans, is expected to vote along party lines. Earlier this year, a panel of right-wing "experts" produced a report urging the committee to remove biographies of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Stephen F. Austin, César Chávez, and instead add history about the "motivational role the Bible and the Christian faith played in the settling of the original colonies."
No, just no. You do not rewrite history, especially when it's for something as petty, idiotic and unimportant as fitting your small, insignificant, narrow-minded, partisan little political parties' view of the world. I don't care what party you're from. Democrat, Republican, Green Party, Socialist Party, Nazi Party, rewriting history to block out important people and emphasize an organization with as few noteworthy contributions to US history as the NRA or Rush Limbaugh of all people, should be a crime against human society and the future generations of this world, even if it is only for Texas.
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