The Great AP History Fight in Jefferson County, Colorado, continues into another week, and there have been a few new developments. For one thing, on Thursday night the conservative school board passed a compromise version of a proposal to review all curricular materials, with particular emphasis on
“During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.” Γ’ΒΒ James Madison
“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes." -- Thomas Jefferson
A wingnut history requires an awful lot of redacting.
&quot; &#039;A Republic, my man, if you can dig it. Far out, I&#039;m trippin&#039;,&#039; said the pithy old dude wearing Ben Franklin glasses.&quot; -- Thompson, Hunter S., <i>Fear and Loathing in Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia.</i> They talked like that back in ye olden days.
... Russia, under Czar Alexander II, abolished serfdom (slavery for poor <strike>white people</strike> Russian peasants) in 1861,...
FTFY
The Tsar&#039;s empire included much more than the European part of Russia, and the serfs that were freed under his 1861 decree were not all white by any means.
Unlike those who don&#039;t learn history (or at least pay some damn attention to Santayana) students only get two chances to pass the AP history exam.
And then proceeded to severely exceed their mandate to amend the Confederation of American states, to create a federated republic where idiots would have the same rights as people who passed the AP history test.
The Revolutionary War was just a conscious uncoupling from Britain...
I trust that this wingnut history also points out that Europe voluntarily got rid of the Nazis, at great sacrifice.
Just another example of big gub&#039;mint takin&#039; private property!
We were relatively egalitarian at the time -- it&#039;s quite ironic that Stalin found fault with it.
Bingo. Nixon was supremely pragmatic. It was Reagan who introduced wishful thinking as a substitute for realism.
&ldquo;During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.&rdquo; Γ’ΒΒ James Madison
&ldquo;History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.&quot; -- Thomas Jefferson
A wingnut history requires an awful lot of redacting.
Oh, Gwen...
&quot; &#039;A Republic, my man, if you can dig it. Far out, I&#039;m trippin&#039;,&#039; said the pithy old dude wearing Ben Franklin glasses.&quot; -- Thompson, Hunter S., <i>Fear and Loathing in Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia.</i> They talked like that back in ye olden days.
... Russia, under Czar Alexander II, abolished serfdom (slavery for poor <strike>white people</strike> Russian peasants) in 1861,...
FTFY
The Tsar&#039;s empire included much more than the European part of Russia, and the serfs that were freed under his 1861 decree were not all white by any means.
The glorification of ignorance makes me crazy.
&quot;Zoos, Noah&#039;s Living Legacy&quot;
The glorification of ignorance makes them crazy. -fixed
For the win!
Unlike those who don&#039;t learn history (or at least pay some damn attention to Santayana) students only get two chances to pass the AP history exam.
And then proceeded to severely exceed their mandate to amend the Confederation of American states, to create a federated republic where idiots would have the same rights as people who passed the AP history test.
Yes, I got a 5, why do you ask?
And all the West African &quot;guest workers&quot; who were admitted to this country voluntarily, at great sacrifice.