So... the book burning PC police strike again...really though? Laura Ingalls Wilder?

[JimmyinSD]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/laura-...li=BBnbfcL

so this really happened?  the pc police get Laura Ingalls Wilders name removed from an award about 60 years after it was awarded, for a book written over 80 years ago in parlance and other verbal imagery that was very common for its time in our US history.... fucking pathetic people need to get a real job or at the least real lives.   holy shit I cant believe how stupid our country is becoming.    this shit is just maddening.

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And where “there were no people. Only Indians lived there.”

Yet Harper’s decision in 1953 to change “people” to “settlers” in the offending sentence did little to quell the critics in later decades, who began describing Wilder’s depictions of Native Americans and some African Americans — and her story lines evoking white settlers’ Manifest Destiny beliefs — as racist.

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(I can't seem to get my cursor under the quoted portion of the prior post)

My mind immediately went to the 2005 repackaged Looney Tune cartoons where Woopi Goldberg calls out racial insensitivity influencing the cartoons but also states something along the lines of "editing them out would be the same as denying they ever existed."

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Sadly, I've seen history "change" over the thirty years I've taught HS.

textbooks sterilize everything, omit any hint of anything controversial, or that cast the US in any sort of negative way.

good luck finding Cadet Johnson Whittaker, "War is a Racket" by General Smedley Butler, Emmett Till, Bayard Rustin, My Lai, Eisenhower denials of U2, on and on. 

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@Vanguard83 said:
Sadly, I've seen history "change" over the thirty years I've taught HS.

textbooks sterilize everything, omit any hint of anything controversial, or that cast the US in any sort of negative way.

good luck finding Cadet Johnson Whittaker, "War is a Racket" by General Smedley Butler, Emmett Till, Bayard Rustin, My Lai, Eisenhower denials of U2, on and on. 

Heaven forbid a student may be prompted to ask a question.  Next thing you know, they may have a thought and it could be contagious.

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I wish I could say that anything that anyone does (especially the "Left") surprises me anymore.  I don't think they understand what they're doing... or they just can't help themselves.  Either way, they've managed to make me (a "Never Trump" voter) into a Trump voter (if the election were held today).  It's curious to think that Satan knew the OT prophecies about Jesus- yet couldn't stop himself from crucifying Him anyway.  I wonder if this kind of stuff is along those same kinds of lines. 

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left loves burning books

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Many history books since 2009 have been "changed" depicting Lincoln as a Democrat. My 15 year old son is in high school and they are being taught that the Civil War was over slavery and the Crusades were started by the evil "White" Europeans......  my son sent me a text telling me his history teacher was teaching the Civil War was over slavery, so I texted him back with some REAL facts that it was over financial differences and he disagreed with the teacher, the teacher almost sent him to the principals office.    FN ridiculous

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@Sir Viking Bob VWO said:
Many history books since 2009 have been "changed" depicting Lincoln as a Democrat. My 15 year old son is in high school and they are being taught that the Civil War was over slavery and the Crusades were started by the evil "White" Europeans......  my son sent me a text telling me his history teacher was teaching the Civil War was over slavery, so I texted him back with some REAL facts that it was over financial differences and he disagreed with the teacher, the teacher almost sent him to the principals office.    FN ridiculous

The Civil War WAS fought over slavery... IF you have a simplistic view of history.  It was obviously alot more complex than that... but complex matters seem to escape those who trust feelings more than facts.  And, unfortunately, kids are being taught about their feelings (and the feelings of others) way more than they are being taught facts (i.e. "science").  I can't imagine why US schools are falling further and further behind other countries (even though we spend way more per student on education than they do).

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@pumpf said:

@Sir Viking Bob VWO said:
Many history books since 2009 have been "changed" depicting Lincoln as a Democrat. My 15 year old son is in high school and they are being taught that the Civil War was over slavery and the Crusades were started by the evil "White" Europeans......  my son sent me a text telling me his history teacher was teaching the Civil War was over slavery, so I texted him back with some REAL facts that it was over financial differences and he disagreed with the teacher, the teacher almost sent him to the principals office.    FN ridiculous

The Civil War WAS fought over slavery... IF you have a simplistic view of history.  It was obviously alot more complex than that... but complex matters seem to escape those who trust feelings more than facts.  And, unfortunately, kids are being taught about their feelings (and the feelings of others) way more than they are being taught facts (i.e. "science").  I can't imagine why US schools are falling further and further behind other countries (even though we spend way more per student on education than they do).

I dont know if  it is an agenda as much as it is a simplistic approach to teaching.  it seems that the focus of education in the US is on a macro scale in terms of details.  they want to cover as much as they can in a short period of time instead of really making sure that the kids are learning all about what they are teaching.  In HS we had World History and American History,  and neither course even came close to covering a fraction of the content in the book,  but dammit if you didnt learn about every little detail of the periods you did cover.  what was missed in JH was where the HS courses picked up.