Texas GOP Pushes to Whitewash American History for Schoolchildren

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Remember that most textbooks in the south used to romanticize slavery and portray slaves as happy and loving their owners. Conservatives have always used the education manipulate the future electorate through culture. They claim that removing the stars and bars and confederate statues is erasing history when they are the ones actual manipulate history.

Conservatives have very little influence on the teaching of history in America.

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Remember that most textbooks in the south used to romanticize slavery and portray slaves as happy and loving their owners. Conservatives have always used the education manipulate the future electorate through culture. They claim that removing the stars and bars and confederate statues is erasing history when they are the ones actual manipulate history.

An Alabama history textbook said slavery was a form of social security and that slave owners treated slaves well.

 Everything is projection with the right. They know that they've lied about American history, that's why they see the most meager attempts to begin to correct the record as such a serious threat.

The difference is that very few history teachers are teaching right-wing lies.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

Remember that most textbooks in the south used to romanticize slavery and portray slaves as happy and loving their owners. Conservatives have always used the education manipulate the future electorate through culture. They claim that removing the stars and bars and confederate statues is erasing history when they are the ones actual manipulate history.

An Alabama history textbook said slavery was a form of social security and that slave owners treated slaves well.

 Everything is projection with the right. They know that they've lied about American history, that's why they see the most meager attempts to begin to correct the record as such a serious threat.

The difference is that very few history teachers are teaching right-wing lies.

Wouldn't necessarily go that far, but it's clear that in America, left-wing lies are more often taught than right-wing ones in context of the schools.

Yeah, I'm sure that in some areas you would get taught bad history with a right-wing twist as well.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

Remember that most textbooks in the south used to romanticize slavery and portray slaves as happy and loving their owners. Conservatives have always used the education manipulate the future electorate through culture. They claim that removing the stars and bars and confederate statues is erasing history when they are the ones actual manipulate history.

An Alabama history textbook said slavery was a form of social security and that slave owners treated slaves well.

 Everything is projection with the right. They know that they've lied about American history, that's why they see the most meager attempts to begin to correct the record as such a serious threat.

The difference is that very few history teachers are teaching right-wing lies.

Wouldn't necessarily go that far, but it's clear that in America, left-wing lies are more often taught than right-wing ones in context of the schools.

For the most part, public schools seem to conform to the prevailing politics of the community. I grew up in the suburbs of Portland, a notoriously "progressive" city, and so in most of the history classes I took beyond elementary school I had to endure constant guilt-tripping over how much white people made blacks and Indians suffer. In rural conservative areas, I would imagine you get more of the "shining city on a hill" type rhetoric, extolling the virtues of great god-fearing patriots. In either case, lies and ideology are placed above historical truth.

This might be the case in some areas, but in my high school the social studies teachers were almost universally Democrats.  This was despite the fact that the county I lived in voted overwhelmingly for Romney.  I'm not complaining, they were good teachers, but they were pretty clearly biased towards one side and it showed.

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Most white people didn't benefit from slavery.  Planters and those involved in the slave trade benefitted, but but the average white guy didn't.  Slavery held back the Southern economy, and this is well documented.