Texas school board votes to remove Clinton, Keller, Hobbes from history curriculum; adds Moses

[Limbo Pete]

You can certainly argue that Clinton is not or will not be of much historic significance, but removing her completely makes zero sense lol. How would you even do that.
"...and in that Presidential election, one Donald Trump defeated some lady. Her name has been lost to time."

 

[Islam Imamate]

You can certainly argue that Clinton is not or will not be of much historic significance, but removing her completely makes zero sense lol. How would you even do that.
"...and in that Presidential election, one Donald Trump defeated some lady. Her name has been lost to time."

Clinton, Keller, and Moses are not removed completely but removed from the list of figures that are mandatory to cover. They can still be included at the discretion of the teachers and schools presumably.

 

[Limbo Pete]

Clinton, Keller, and Moses are not removed completely but removed from the list of figures that are mandatory to cover. They can still be included at the discretion of the teachers and schools presumably.

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[jamel]

Yall do realize texas provides textbooks to a significant portion of the country, right?

Your kids could very well be learning this bullshit in the coming years.


As you were

 

[MicroBrew]

Lol. Only godless or non historical idiots think that.



He could be catholic jesus and supremacist. Or eastern orthodox jesus. Still though those types tend to be communal socialist but only for their chosen people who are deemed human or citizens.

Catholicsm isn't the Christianity of Jesus, it is a corruption. And I used to be a devout Catholic.

 

[Islam Imamate]

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Its what the article says.

 

[Limbo Pete]

Its what the article says.

Oh I got that

 

[MicroBrew]

Sorry, I'm not sure what you're asking me to do. Are you asking about specific incidents, or are you actually calling into question that the U.S. Education system is a leftist institution?

I could sit here for a month linking specific incidents......I'm obviously not going to do that, you can do it yourself.

If you're calling into question that American Academia in general isn't leftist ideologically, than that's a bit unbelievable. And in which case, I'm again confused as to what you're asking me to do, give you a list of known progressive ideals? You're familiar with them, surely.

So what is your point? Whether Academia is left leaning or not, what has that got to do with the Texas school board trying to ignore aspects of history.

 

[Lord_Impaler]

So what is your point? Whether Academia is left leaning or not, what has that got to do with the Texas school board trying to ignore aspects of history.

Bushman had made the point that you can’t simultaneously accept leftish distortion in academia and reject rightward distortion of academia and remain credible.

He had juxtaposed the leftist practice of destroying or removing confederate monuments against the rightist practice of tailoring school curriculum in Texas. I ceded that analogy to be tortured, but say that it’s an unnecessary comparison, as American academia has a clear tendency to skew left, ideologically.

Thusly, there are inexhaustible opportunities for direct comparison.

 

[Seaside]

Catholicsm isn't the Christianity of Jesus, it is a corruption. And I used to be a devout Catholic.

The first chrisitanity was jewish christianity. Jews who believed he was the messiah and still kept a lot of their old 613 laws or various parts and stuck to same ideology. That lasted maybe 300 years tops if memory serves me right. It lost to what became syriaic and coptic christianity and then later the Catholic church. When the Romans stopped persecuting christians in 324 it changed a lot after that. Not to mention as time went on they wanted to fuether separate their religion from Judaism and started to literay make shit up and come up with new weird rulings. For example many from apostiñe times and the prophets like paul in NT spoke about keeping the old laws and jesús is is quoted as such to keep old laws etc. Later christians didnt like this because logically Jewish messianic christianity is not real judaism for a million reasons and is also too hard for many christians to follow. It isnt an opium of the masses and it to similar to where it came from judaism. Then christianity had split and various beliefs on divinity of jesus and what won out was trinity believers. Oh anf then the religion changed more.

I do agree though. Catholicism has made up most of its stuff and used religious leaxwrs and orders to create to their liking. Often drawing on old testament when it is convinent. But as ideology catholicism is a lot better in hierarchy and order sense. I dont respect protestants at all but barely respect catholic thought but see catholicism and eastern orthordoxy as closer to original christianity. And they are. The historic dislile of protestants to hate catholics is because if they accept catholics as real christians it defeats their even more foolish and warped version of the religion. The catholics stand on more written history, order and customs and closer to its original conception as it ev9lvrd for ots first hundreda of years as compared to main stream protestant sects.

Evangelicalism growing population is last i checked the only growing sect really of protestants and its tied to their appocalyptic and end times stuff which influences the minds of many who just want ot to all end and be saved.

But if you ask me what will prevail in the long term it is catholicism.

 

[wonderbread]

Religion rots the mind.

 

[Pupi]

@Pupi

Straight up nonsense, imo. Hobbes created the concept of the Social Contract and limited the power of the Sovereign (the king at that point) through parliamentary democracy. I don't agree with Hobbes on many things, but his contributions to political theory are substantial. Texas gonna Texas.

 

[tonni]

Dealing with American liberals is already annoying enough, add euro trash into the liberal mix and it just becomes unsufferable. Especially when euros get their daily Islamic terror attacks while pointing fingers and calling Americans racists and bigots for not wanting the same level of Islamic enrichment in our great country. Europe fucking sucks and Europeans in general are low IQ bastards who can’t wait to speed up their own extinction. Have fun with all that tonni, I for one am glad I got to visit Europe a few times before the real decay started.

If I was a Belgian I’d be much more interested in spring classics bicycle racing, beer and notoriously slutty women than. I would be about American politics.

When do I do any of that? I've never called Americans stupid for being Americans of have spoken badly about the USA as a country in general. It's an online discussion board with international participants. It seems like you're too easily frustrated to really take part in it.

 

[Trotsky]

Straight up nonsense, imo. Hobbes created the concept of the Social Contract and limited the power of the Sovereign (the king at that point) through parliamentary democracy. I don't agree with Hobbes on many things, but his contributions to political theory are substantial. Texas gonna Texas.

But Moses

 

[bushman505]

When do I do any of that? I've never called Americans stupid for being Americans of have spoken badly about the USA as a country in general. It's an online discussion board with international participants. It seems like you're too easily frustrated to really take part in it.

I think you’d be surprised how Not frustrated and not triggered I am over anything posted on sherdog, even when I’m getting dog piled I’m not even worried.

 

[Madmick]

That's a step backwards.

 

[Pupi]

But Moses

Lol Moses hallucinated in a cave and talked to a bush after wandering in the desert without food and water. Not only that, but he didn't even make it to "the promised land" after the exodus from Egypt and was lost in the desert again for decades. Trusting hallucinations about the promised land and promoting a transhistorical special covenant with God, but lets conveniently forget the dude had no idea where he was going and he died after decades of failure. Another loss for Texas.

 

[PainIsLIfe]

Keller I don't care about. Shes insignificant historically.

But the rest of it is fucked up. Why do we keep letting the crazies decide these things?

I'm not sure why Hillary would be included unless there's also a section on Farraro and Woodhull.
Maybe a section on Condoleezza Rice should be added as well???

Honestly, Hobbes is the only thing to complain about, but there are hundreds of philosophers that influnced our founders that aren't mentioned in text books.

 

[NoDak]

Hillary has already been immortalized.

 

[TheComebackKid]

Moses is a top 5 most significant man in world history. It's about time we put some respect on his name.