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***NJMaverick*** · 01-14-2011, 01:10 PM

Quote:At a press conference, two dozen activists presented their proposals -- I'm sorry, their "demands" -- for the new state legislative session. Among them are sweeping changes to school materials that they probably have not actually read.

Take it away, awful person:

The material calls for lawmakers to amend state laws governing school curriculums, and for textbook selection criteria to say that “No portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority of citizens, including those who reached positions of leadership."

Fayette County attorney Hal Rounds, the group's lead spokesman during the news conference, said the group wants to address "an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another."

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_r...index.html

**KonaKane** · 01-14-2011, 01:38 PM

The leopards reveal more of their spots.

Every time another little bit of the "real Tea Party" comes out, I realize that we are only seeing the latest incarnation of the same old loathesome right wing conservative bullshit.

There is nothing tendy, grassroots or new in the TP.

**Cha** · 01-14-2011, 01:47 PM

They're insane. I suppose they want the stupid, mean, & violent things they do left out of the history books, too?

**DFW** · 01-14-2011, 01:48 PM

They want the American South of 1860. This is the deterioration of a society, a mass neurosis. It would be a mistake not to take this movement seriously, although any one individual may be unworthy of yesterday's spit. But if they manage to catch on, and appeal to enough angry, frustrated, under-educated people, well...no one took the NSDAP seriously at first, either.

**Cha** · 01-14-2011, 01:52 PM

(01-14-2011 01:48 PM)DFW Wrote: They want the American South of 1860. This is the deterioration of a society, a mass neurosis. It would be a mistake not to take this movement seriously, although any one individual may be unworthy of yesterday's spit. But if they manage to catch on, and appeal to enough angry, frustrated, under-educated people, well...no one took the NSDAP seriously at first, either.

Oh, I take their hate seriously..they are a national by product, in the streets, of fox, hate radio, and ugly websites like sarah palin's.

**Treestar** · 01-14-2011, 01:50 PM

what morans. They can't change history. And why do they want control over interpretation of it?

***NJMaverick*** · 01-14-2011, 01:55 PM

(01-14-2011 01:50 PM)Treestar Wrote: what morans. They can't change history. And why do they want control over interpretation of it?

The tea party has a vest interest in portraying the founding fathers as perfect gods. After all the tea party is founded on the principle that the all knowing founding fathers wanted a nation that is exactly like the one the tea party people want. If you sully the FFs with the truth you sully the tea party movement.

**Cha** · 01-14-2011, 02:10 PM

(01-14-2011 01:55 PM)NJMaverick Wrote:
(01-14-2011 01:50 PM)Treestar Wrote: what morans. They can't change history. And why do they want control over interpretation of it?

The tea party has a vest interest in portraying the founding fathers as perfect gods. After all the tea party is founded on the principle that the all knowing founding fathers wanted a nation that is exactly like the one the tea party people want. If you sully the FFs with the truth you sully the tea party movement.

fox "news" and its ilk are no doubt proud of what their broadcasts have wrought..the brainwashed in action. cnn is reported to have been "wooing the teaparty to air their debates in the 2012 election".

Too bad for them reality takes a massive bite into their delusions.

**Velleity** · 01-14-2011, 02:10 PM

(01-14-2011 01:55 PM)NJMaverick Wrote: . . . the tea party is founded on the principle that the all knowing founding fathers wanted a nation that is exactly like the one the tea party people want. . .

Thanks for this statement. You nail it again.

**CTLawGuy** · 01-17-2011, 06:04 AM

(01-14-2011 01:55 PM)NJMaverick Wrote:
(01-14-2011 01:50 PM)Treestar Wrote: what morans. They can't change history. And why do they want control over interpretation of it?

The tea party has a vest interest in portraying the founding fathers as perfect gods. After all the tea party is founded on the principle that the all knowing founding fathers wanted a nation that is exactly like the one the tea party people want. If you sully the FFs with the truth you sully the tea party movement.

Yup,
The Rs are notoriously expert at co-opting universally (or nearly so) beloved symbols of Americana and associating themselves with such symbols. I saw a bumper sticker once (on a giant SUV of course) that had renderings of various founding fathers and under it said "Right wing nutjobs." Now were they actually "right wing nutjobs"? No, of course not, but that doesn't stop the right from trying to claim as such.

**OptimistesMaddie** · 01-14-2011, 10:31 PM

They want to write all minority contributiions out of history. By doing this it deligitimizes current successes for minorities.

You see they will continue with these type of actions to ensure no minority can win any political seat in the future.

This seems absurd but if we use "Occam's razor" it is more than likely true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor

**KonaKane** · 01-14-2011, 11:00 PM

(01-14-2011 01:10 PM)NJMaverick Wrote: ......
Fayette County attorney Hal Rounds, the group's lead spokesman during the news conference, said the group wants to address "an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another."

..... "made up"?

**Willinois** · 01-14-2011, 11:28 PM

But they're not racist. Really. That's why they have to keep telling people that.

**jaxx** · 01-17-2011, 08:03 AM

Racism raises it's ugly head. This thing of removing the facts from history will bring years of new students growing up not knowing the truth...burying the horror of what was done to people in this country. You can bet there will be no pictures of an African American or a Native American riding the dinosaurs!

There should be universal guidelines for text books and no state should be able to rewrite them to fit their political and religious meanderings.