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meegbear

(25,438 posts) Tue Mar 12, 2013, 08:18 AM Mar 2013

School textbook: Hippies were rude, didn’t bathe, worshipped Satan

Here’s what 8th graders in Louisiana know, for sure, about the 1960s rabble-rousers better known as hippies (emphasis mine):

They went to Canada or European countries to escape being drafted into military service.

They went without bathing, wore dirty, ragged, unconventional clothing, and deliberately broke all codes of politeness or manners. Rock music played an important part in the hippie movement and had great influence over the hippies. Many of the rock musicians they followed belonged to Eastern religious cults or practiced Satan worship.

How do they know it? Because their history textbook — "America: Land I Love" — told them so!

Dirty hippie-gate is just one of many reasons the quality of the Louisiana school system’s voucher program has been called into question. Other schools involved in the program have taught students that dragons are real and that, except for the whole owning human beings as property thing, slave owners were actually pretty nice guys.

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A Louisiana state court declared the voucher program unconstitutional in December 2012, but the state is currently appealing that decision.

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http://www.salon.com/2013/03/11/high_school_history_book_hippies_were_rude_didn%E2%80%99t_bathe_worshipped_satan/

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School textbook: Hippies were rude, didn’t bathe, worshipped Satan (Original Post) meegbear Mar 2013 OP

I rarely bathed as a hippie LiberalEsto Mar 2013 #1

That's pretty biased and awful nt el_bryanto Mar 2013 #2

More low information voters par excellence. n/t RKP5637 Mar 2013 #3

lol dipsydoodle Mar 2013 #4

Is anyone trying to debunk these lies? Boomerproud Mar 2013 #5

its the long hair d_r Mar 2013 #6

It's understandable, perhaps, chervilant Mar 2013 #7

+++ 1,000 +++ n/t RKP5637 Mar 2013 #9

fox tv in book form dembotoz Mar 2013 #8

Ugh... Fawke Em Mar 2013 #10

LiberalEsto

(22,845 posts)

1. I rarely bathed as a hippie

Reply to meegbear (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 08:27 AM

Mar 2013

I took showers instead!

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)

2. That's pretty biased and awful nt

Reply to meegbear (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 08:32 AM

Mar 2013

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)

3. More low information voters par excellence. n/t

Reply to meegbear (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 08:39 AM

Mar 2013

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

4. lol

Reply to meegbear (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 08:48 AM

Mar 2013

Sometimes you really can't make this shit up.

Prior to Hippies the same was said of Beatniks.

Boomerproud

(7,963 posts)

5. Is anyone trying to debunk these lies?

Reply to meegbear (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 08:53 AM

Mar 2013

My niece believes the same thing-she's a GenXer and has been fed this garbage all her life, even though she's the daughter of two Boomers.

d_r

(6,907 posts)

6. its the long hair

Reply to meegbear (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 09:25 AM

Mar 2013

chervilant

(8,267 posts)

7. It's understandable, perhaps,

Reply to meegbear (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 09:56 AM

Mar 2013

why people want to snark about this. However, it's important to recognize that this deliberate misinformation is a key underpinning of the corporate megalomaniacs' intentional 'education' of the Hoi Polloi.

Over 40% of our nation's citizens are functionally illiterate. Our nation ranks 27th out of 36 industrialized countries with regards to teaching our children math. The CMs are quite happy to reserve the best education for their precious entitled offspring.

The end result? A growing percentage of easily propagandized, ultra-conservative, rabidly 'patriotic' sheeple who worry more about their rights to bear arms than the usurpation of our politics, our media, and our global economy.