Texas Textbook Analyzes Robert E. Lee's Presidency, South's Freeing of Slaves
The reason why Texas and its choice of school textbooks is important has to do with the size of the state and the laziness of publishers. As one of the biggest states in terms of population, publishers will keep their textbooks in line with what Texas (and California) want, and those textbooks will then be sold nationally - after Texas approves it for use. Satire warning.
Again, Texas has been in the news recently because a new school social studies textbook is full of truthiness. It ranks slavery as the third cause of the Civil War and keeps some small stuff out like Jim Crow and segregation.
Texas Textbook Analyzes Robert E. Lee's Presidency, South's Freeing of Slaves
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AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Jefferson Davis was President of the CSA. If the book gets such a simple fact so wrong, I can only imagine what a botchup the remainder is.
niyad
(113,966 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)And I didn't click the link as it sounded like more RW nuttiness and revisionist history. Tnx for the heads up.
niyad
(113,966 posts)sadly, the texas textbook committees have gone so far beyond insanity that satire is almost not possible (and I thought they were crazy back in the 70's!!)
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 (where Lee's orders before Antietam were not found by Union troops)
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Or at least what is considered satire by someone. Most follow the formula of:
1. Pick any random headline.
2. Stretch it in some ridiculous direction.
3. Post it as satire.
4. Lather, Rinse, Repeat (very frequently)
Unfortunately, fully blocking EEO does not prevent the posts from appearing on the Home page. They used to show up in Politics, but now have moved to good reads. My opinion is that they are not humorous, but should be in Humor.
erpowers
(9,350 posts)The title is not what let me know this post was satire. I did not read the top of the post first. Instead I read the highlighted sections first. After reading those section I was set to post a reply asking someone to tell me the original post was satire. I knew some of the information was wrong. However, I thought someone it Texas might be trying to pass that misinformation off as fact. I realized the original post was satire when I went back to read the beginning of the post and saw the satire warning.
I am very happy the original post is satire. The sad part is that with the way things are going anyone could have believed it was true. I guess someone could say it is shocking that the South has not tried something like that already.