Farenheit 451
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More evidence that Texas is becoming a slaughterhouse of truth and free speech: Corporate interests are literally re-writing history textbooks for Texas schools. It would be one thing if this type of corporate interest ass-kissing was limited to the perverse state of Texas, but Texas is the second largest textbook market after California and so publishers who supply the entire nation are changing all their textbooks to please the conservative hard-ons from Dubya Land. Topics such as prostitution in the West during the 1800s, rainforest destruction, sexuality, and pollution levels in American cities are being censored by all sorts of industry groups and religious pundits.
Among other things, those books were criticized as "anti-technology," "anti-Christian" and "anti-American," and for saying there was scientific consensus that global warming was changing the earth's climate...
"I don't mean that we should sweep things under the rug," Ms. Venable said. "But the children should see the hope and the good things about America."
Let's see: state-sponsored religion, coerced patriotism, concelament of wrongdoing — sounds like all the necessary ingredients for a communist regime.
To its credit, Texas did pass legislation in 1995 to counter these kinds of censorship by limiting textbook changes to physically defects or “factual inaccuracy”, but true to form, the conservatives have been able to distort the law and allow all sorts things to be considered as factual inaccuracy.
A reference to Farenheit 451 would be appropriate at this time.
More evidence that Texas is becoming a slaughterhouse of truth and free speech: Corporate interests are literally re-writing history textbooks for Texas schools. It would be one thing if this type of corporate interest ass-kissing was limited to the perverse state of Texas, but Texas is the second largest textbook market after California and so publishers who supply the entire nation are changing all their textbooks to please the conservative hard-ons from Dubya Land. Topics such as prostitution in the West during the 1800s, rainforest destruction, sexuality, and pollution levels in American cities are being censored by all sorts of industry groups and religious pundits.
Among other things, those books were criticized as "anti-technology," "anti-Christian" and "anti-American," and for saying there was scientific consensus that global warming was changing the earth's climate...
"I don't mean that we should sweep things under the rug," Ms. Venable said. "But the children should see the hope and the good things about America."
Let's see: state-sponsored religion, coerced patriotism, concelament of wrongdoing — sounds like all the necessary ingredients for a communist regime.
To its credit, Texas did pass legislation in 1995 to counter these kinds of censorship by limiting textbook changes to physically defects or “factual inaccuracy”, but true to form, the conservatives have been able to distort the law and allow all sorts things to be considered as factual inaccuracy.
A reference to Farenheit 451 would be appropriate at this time.