Liberal Propaganda in the schools

[MoonRiver]

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[TwilightZone]

1. To the right, anything involving actual facts is liberal propaganda.

And anything involving critical thinking. It terrifies them to imagine an informed and rational populace.

I was recently re-reading an editorial that Isaac Asimov wrote in the early 1980s criticizing the growing (but also long-established and persistent) anti-intellectualism in the US. With a few topical exceptions, the entire thing could have been written last week.

[Harker]

2. Fuel for fascist bonfires. n/t

[irisblue]

7. Farenheit 451 analogy and recent German history

I do know that books have been burned in the US as well

[Harker]

11. ...and disco records.

"Fahrenheit 451" is one of a small number of books that I've read more than twice.

Maybe I ought to commit it to memory to pass it on to future generations.

[pandr32]

14. Me as well

Bradbury's descriptions of talking parlor walls beautifully foretold fake reality tv, Fox so-called News, and large screen tvs. I laugh about it to myself every time I see an even larger tv when walking through Costco.

[Harker]

18. They're getting close to it.

It amuses me that Professor Faber's name is practically synonymous with the pencil, the tool that used to lie between a writer's ideas and the resultant book.

Seems we share both musical and literary tastes!

[eShirl]

3. they're trying to teach them Liberal Arts

[VGNonly]

4. Needs a geology book,

the earth is only 6000 years old....

[TwilightZone]

5. They, of course, have an answer for that.

It's usually along the lines that god created Earth with all of the pre-6,000 years ago evidence already in place "to make us think".

Conveniently for them, the general consensus is that recorded history (and known civilization) taps out about 5,000 years ago so they just blow off any possibility of anything earlier. Of course, cave drawings and the like pre-date recorded history by as much as 40,000 years.

[VGNonly]

8. On the 3rd day

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[TwilightZone]

9. Art imitates life.

A little too perfectly, I might add.

[VGNonly]

10. I was at the Grand Canyon.

There were more than a few crackpots wandering around to any one that would listen, espousing their views on "science". Noah and the flood, lightning bolts split open the earth, aliens testing nuclear weapons...

[rickford66]

12. We had a terrific young lady tour guide there back in 2011.

She explained the formation of the canyon by having the kids in the group act out the various geological events. She never mentioned an ark.

[TwilightZone]

17. That's not the first time I've heard that.

From what I understand, there's a somewhat-dedicated group that shows up there often and proselytizes.

[Rebl2]

6. How dare they!

[haele]

13. Truth and Reality have a liberal bias.

Just like GQP types don't understand that you can't have (make in the original) your cake and eat it at the same time.

If one chooses to live in a special World Bubble, they can't come crying to everyone else and blame them when it finally pops.

Haele

[BobTheSubgenius]

15. I would love to see how the bible "disproves" anything and everything in those books.

The Indiana state leg. once debated the idea of making Pi equal 3 exactly, to conform to a bible passage. Maybe some thought it might also bring some rationality to the most irrational ratio known.

Imagine a state where math no longer worked.

[Warpy]

16. Wingnuts all want McGuffy's Eclectic Primer and the bible (KJV, only)

and don't think the kiddies need to know any of that other stuff.