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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 07:33 AM
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Teabagger Revisionist History
http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/tenn-tea-party-wants-slavery-removed-from-history-textbooks/

The Tea Party of Tennessee wants to remove incidents of slavery and genocide from American textbooks for fear they would besmirch the image of the Founding Fathers:

The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports.

"As a result, the Tea Party organizations argue, there should be “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.”
“The thing we need to focus on about the Founders is that, given the social structure of their time, they were revolutionaries who brought liberty into a world where it hadn’t existed, to everybody — not all equally instantly — and it was their progress that we need to look at,” Rounds explained of his interpretation of the legacy of the Founding Fathers.


The issue of revising curriculums to teach history in a manner that encourages the glossing over of the uglier factors of the past has popped up in other states over the past year.
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 07:35 AM
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1. !
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
:mad: :mad: :mad:

not sure whether to laugh or cry at this. What fucking dopes, dumb asses and idiots.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 07:36 AM
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2. You start with picking and choosing which history you want to acknowledge, and
the next thing, you're picking and choosing which laws you want to obey.
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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 07:38 AM
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3. How about we fucking write Tennessee out of the History Books.
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surrealAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 07:44 AM
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4. ... but surely the "founding fathers", being wealthy, white, male landowners ...
... were a minority.
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 07:50 AM
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5. the american 'revolution' was a tax revolt by the ruling elites.
didn't change the lives of the common people a whole lot.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 07:53 AM
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6. That's the ONLY kind of history they have.
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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 07:58 AM
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7. They would call The Lorax an environmental terrorist
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 08:33 AM
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11. Face it - they'd call JESUS a terrorist.
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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 08:50 AM
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12. well - look what he did to the money changers...
that's the teabaggers bread and butter
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Dj13Francis Donating Member (343 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 08:07 AM
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8. The truth is
like kryptonite to these clowns. I say we beat them over the head with it.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 08:15 AM
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9. New Tea Party Motto...
We don't need no stinkin' facts....
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 08:20 AM
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10. Discussion with a co-worker the other day pretty much included that point
We were talking about history and the outrageous stories that used to be in actual history books (like Washington's cherry tree) and a co-worker said "That's because they are trying to spin the Founding Fathers to take them down" I replied, "No the point is that it was spin to begin with" no answer on that one.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 08:55 AM
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13. Racist BREITBART revised the TeaBaggers' own history on CSPAN
In an interview pitifully conducted by Armstrong WILLIAMS, BREITBART said, in a list of other incredible (in the sense of "untrue" and "LIE") things, that Blacks and women had been instrumental in founding the TeaBagger movement, and as an afterthought, added that Hispanics did, too.
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DenverDad Donating Member (305 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 10:11 AM
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14. The thing we need to focus on about the Founders is that
they were human beings with flaws, just like the rest of us. They don't need to be deified. To wipe their flaws from our history would be to suggest otherwise, in my opinion.
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