Texas, Intellect and The Alamo

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As if anyone needed further proof that the far-right suffers from a severe case of delusional disorder, this comes out of Texas.

The Texas Board of Education has been meeting this week to revise its social studies curriculum. During the past three days, “the board’s far-right faction wielded their power to shape lessons on the civil rights movement, the U.S. free enterprise system and hundreds of other topics”:

– To avoid exposing students to “transvestites, transsexuals and who knows what else,” the Board struck the curriculum’s reference to “sex and gender as social constructs.”

– The Board removed Thomas Jefferson from the Texas curriculum, “replacing him with religious right icon John Calvin.”

– The Board refused to require that “students learn that the Constitution prevents the U.S. government from promoting one religion over all others.”

One board member left the meeting in disgust with this…

“They can just pretend this is a white America and Hispanics don’t exist.”

These people will not stop until every child in America believes that the earth is 6000 years old and every American is forced to carry a gun and a Bible.  As one reader so eloquently put it, “Intellect just had its Alamo.”

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