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

[Fawlty]

Pretty fucked to remove Hobbes though.

Y'all can take yer fancy enlightenment values and yer social contract back to New York City where it belongs. 'Round these parts we don't take kindly to learnin'.

 

[Rod1]

Thats what you get for letting hispanic fundamentalists into Texas.

 

[bushman505]

Ahhhhh I get it. Revising history is only ok when it’s done to suit the leftist narrative.

Only liberal and leftists should be able to re write history.

Or you know, nobody could re-write history and we could work together to avoid the same problems in the future....nah, let’s knock down statues and omit people from history books.

 

[Wet Blanket]

Ahhhhh I get it. Revising history is only ok when it’s done to suit the leftist narrative.

Only liberal and leftists should be able to re write history.

Or you know, nobody could re-write history and we could work together to avoid the same problems in the future....nah, let’s knock down statues and omit people from history books.

I don't think people pulling down statues have ever mentioned removing anything history books. They just didn't want statues up praising mass murderers or people who fought to keep slavery legal. They are all still included in history lessons.

 

[snakedafunky]

Well, I am not saying Hillary isn't real. But has anyone here ever seen her in real life?
I have only ever seen her on TV or pictures. Same with Moses.

 

[IReallyDoTrainUFC]

While Hillary Clinton, the first female nominee from a major party, and Helen Keller were appraised to lack the requisite contributions to American history, "Judeo-Christian values" made the cut, and the biblical figure Moses has replaced Thomas Hobbes in the section on "individuals whose principles of laws and government institutions informed the American founding."

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In other news, Texas history books will now document the 2016 presidential election as being a glorious victory of Christlike god-man Donald Trump over a swarm of pagan locusts.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-...move-hillary-clinton-from-history-curriculum/

Um.... How is Moses as a lawgiver not important to America's founding. If you read the actual founders of America, he was to them. So why again?

 

[Squarechoke]

Ahhhhh I get it. Revising history is only ok when it’s done to suit the leftist narrative.

Only liberal and leftists should be able to re write history.

Or you know, nobody could re-write history and we could work together to avoid the same problems in the future....nah, let’s knock down statues and omit people from history books.

So you think that the purpose of statues are to be educational tools?

I guess we really erased Hitler from history then, as I don't see many people keeping statues of him around.

 

[Jesus H. Sherdog]

In a way it is. Before Jews weren't even considered white and we barely let them in the country but now they're included in this supposed shared "Judaeo-Christian" tradition which was really invented relatively recently. The founders themselves would almost certainly not have recognized that term and most certainly would not have cited it as an influence on them.

In fact before the 20th century it was a pejorative, dating back to the era of the Reconquista and Inquisition and referred to Jewish communities that had converted to Catholicism with a connotation of suspicion that they secretly remained Jewish.

And yet now there's the myth that they've always been a part of a shared tradition that is central to the founding of this country. It goes to show you how effective the US is at integrating foreign populations that at first are seen as intrinsically alien and unable to assimilate.

I’ll give you guys credit there, the new scapegoats on the block.

 

[Pessimystic]

Either we as a nation are for editing history, or we are not.
It's black and white simple.

 

[luckyshot]

I’ve always said libertarianism could not stand up to a single page of Hobbes.

Now I know I was right.

Seriously, fuck these sanctimonious evangelical cunts. I hope they get their libertarian shit world and end up murdered in the streets. Would be poetic justice.

(Note for sensitive Maga bois: this is hyperbole. I don’t actually wish for anyone to be murdered.)

 

[Islam Imamate]

I’ll give you guys credit there, the new scapegoats on the block.

Who is "you guys"? Mohammedans?

 

[VivaRevolution]

I care allot more about what school kids get taught about Vietnam, and Iraq.

 

[bushman505]

So you think that the purpose of statues are to be educational tools?

I guess we really erased Hitler from history then, as I don't see many people keeping statues of him around.

This just proves my point, when liberals do it, it’s ok. Conservatives....not so much. Thank you.

 

[Pessimystic]

So you think that the purpose of statues are to be educational tools?

I guess we really erased Hitler from history then, as I don't see many people keeping statues of him around.

In Germany, you can go to prison for questioning the Holocaust, so bad example there.
The purpose of statues are twofold, and one of them is reminding us of the past, yes.

 

[The ScorpioN]

I can see removing Hillary, she hasn't done fuck all, part and parcel politician.

But Hobbes? That's an odd one.

 

[Jesus H. Sherdog]

Who is "you guys"? Mohammedans?

Yeah lol that’s what I meant. I mean, you may be as religious as I am (which is to say not at all) but I still carry that identity and still bristle at the stereotypes.

 

[Pessimystic]

I’ve always said libertarianism could not stand up to a single page of Hobbes.

Now I know I was right.

Seriously, fuck these sanctimonious evangelical cunts. I hope they get their libertarian shit world and end up murdered in the streets. Would be poetic justice.

Wow, you really seem shaken up by this.
Murdered in the streets?
You willing to do the murdering?

 

[Headkicktoleg]

I’ve always said libertarianism could not stand up to a single page of Hobbes.

Now I know I was right.

Seriously, fuck these sanctimonious evangelical cunts. I hope they get their libertarian shit world and end up murdered in the streets. Would be poetic justice.

So enlightened and caring.

 

[MicroBrew]

Do these bootheel sucking retards still not know that Moses wasn't real?

Texas won't belong to the party of Supply Side Jesus forever though. Make hayseeds while the sun is shining.

Rightwing Christians are the most vocal about advertising and pushing Christianity, but they are opposed to government welfare programs and assistance to people in need. If Jesus actually showed up today, these Christians will attack him as an Anti-American Marxist Socialist Community Organizer.

 

[Squarechoke]

This just proves my point, when liberals do it, it’s ok. Conservatives....not so much. Thank you.

I asked you a question and instead of answering you just wrote some nonsense. You should work on your reading comprehension as there was no point about whether it's OK or not.